Fish & Chips

Made fish and chips for supper tonight. Not those nasty freezerburnt fishsticks, but real fish, breaded and baked. I made the chips from sweet potatoes.

The whole meal takes about ten minutes to prepare - cutting the sweet potatoes takes about five and the fish dredging another five, but that's done while the chips are cooking. It doesn't take much more effort or time than shoving frozen sticks in the oven, and yet tastes much better and I'm sure is way more nutritious. It's definitely closer to living food.

I sliced the sweet potatoes into shoestring-sized fries, drizzled them with olive oil and shook salt over them. Put them on a greased cookie sheet, and into a 450f oven. They cook up pretty quickly - about 25 minutes.

The fish were sole filets. I bought a large bag of them from costco and keep them in the freezer. Because the filets are individually wrapped, they stay separated and thus easy to take out as needed. They thaw quickly - about ten minutes or so.

I dredged the thawed filets in two beaten eggs, with salt and pepper and some herbes de provence. Then I breaded them in Panko flakes - Japanese style breadcrumbs. Placed all the filets on a cookie sheet and baked them in the same oven (450f) for about fifteen minutes.

Served with a choice of ketchup or sweet chili sauce (my current favorite ketchup substitute). Such a great dinner! And definitely way less expensive than storebought frozen fries and fishsticks.