Easy Fish Stew

Remember that curried cauliflower I made the other day? I turned the leftovers into a fish stew. It took exactly two minutes to dump the leftovers in a pot with some leftover potatoes, and add half a cup of broth and three frozen halibut fillets. I heated it gently (medium-low) for about 20 minutes. Easy peasy.

We ate it topped with tamarind-date chutney. The kids loved it! For an extra kick of heat, we paired it with ginger tea. I'm no physician but I swear all that spicy goodness makes sick people healthy and maintains good health.

Salmon salad with capers, basil, olives and pickles

Here’s my day’s amount of fat – maybe a week’s worth. Smoked salmon, (which I would inject directly into my bloodstream if I could), and capers on leaf lettuce, topped with a teaspoon of basil (dressing seemed redundant), sided by a few olives and three small pickles. Yum!

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.