phood adventures

Heeeerree Fishy Fishy...

As my wife and I continue along on our journey to eating healthier, I’ve been learning to disassociate myself from the healthy = boring/yucky equation. We’ve been trying to have a fish meal at least twice weekly, and have been succeeding at this! Luckily, we live in a fishing community, where great fresh seafood is available year round. For this dinner I steamed some brussels sprouts, which I then sliced and sprinkled with sea salt and pepper. I sautéed some sugar snap peas (frozen, but what can you do. They weren’t bad) in some olive oil with garlic, red pepper flake, and salt/pepper.

The Haddock was broiled. I rubbed a tiny amont of olive oil and then topped with some black pepper, salt, cayenne, paprika, and garlic powder. When broiling fish I find it REALLY helpful if you layer thin slices of lemon on the broiling pan before laying the fish down atop it. This does a great job of keeping the fish from getting stuck to the pan, and infuses the fish with a really nice flavor that I find to be less acidic than just squirting the fish after it’s cooked. Also, Haddock is one of those easy cook fishes – when the meat starts “flaking,” it’s done perfectly.

Some nice plating, an edible tomato garnish and this meal looked and tasted great!