I haven't been cooking much recently. I think about it a lot. Mostly while feeling guilty that I don't have time, that I'm not meeting the challenge I've set for myself, that I'm eating a whole lotta fries and drinking a whole lotta pop. I have, however, made a few things recently and seem to be getting my groove back. I hope so. There are too many good things to make to spend all my time in restaurants.
Here is a case in point. It's February, and I'm finally making the first recipe in my magazine challenge. I am still looking for new ways to cook fish that are easy, and that J and I both like. The beginning of the year EDFs are always the healthy magazines. There are a couple of fish recipes that I want to try. This one went together fast, and I would be willing to eat it again. I also had never tried poaching before. It was easy.
I present to you now EDF's Sole with Lemon Butter Sauce:
Ingredients:
1/2 c dry white wineFrom Everyday Food, January/February 2005
3-4 oz sole fillets (2 per person)
2 thin lemon slices per piece of fish
Salt and pepper
3 Tbsp lemon juice
3 Tbsp butter
Method
1. Pour wine in a large, lidded skillet. Fold each fillet in 3, season with salt and pepper, and top with 2 slices of lemon.
2. Bring wine to a boil, reduce heat and cover. Simmer gently until fish is opaque throughout, about 3 to 5 minutes. Transfer to serving plates.
3. Return liquid to a boil, cooking until reduced to about 1/3 of a cup. Add lemon juice and whisk in butter. Strain if desired and serve with the fish.
I couldn't get my fish to fold into thirds, so I folded it in half. That seemed to work. The lemon slices covered it well either way.
Things cooked quickly. The wine even reduced quickly. It was a simple sauce to put together. J and I both liked it even better on the broccoli I served with the fish. It wasn't bad when it soaked into the rice as well.
I think J might have liked another piece of fish, but one was enough for me. I was afraid things were undercooked, but it was cooked through in the 5 minutes. It was a quick, easy dinner for a weeknight. Plus, we had to open a bottle of wine to make it, so there was wine with the meal. How can dinner be bad when there's wine?
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