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[jethrien]

I have cooked fish, and cooked it well! (It was my first time cooking fish.) Also, I have discovered a good use of grainy peaches!


So into the blender went a pile of slightly dismembered bruised and gritty peaches, along with fresh cilantro, dried mint, dried parsley, chopped garlic, chopped jalapeno, a quarter white onion, salt, lime juice, tequila, and peach shnapps. (The recipe called for white wine - all I had was sherry, so I figured a lower dose of tequila and peach liquor would be friends with the ingredients already there. Then again, the recipe called for tomantillos instead of peaches, so we were well off the beaten path already.) Blender goes whirr, instant sauce! 15 minutes.

Then I oiled the center of a piece of parchement paper, poured in some sauce, laid a piece of swai (kinda like flounder) on top, poured a little olive oil on the swai, and poured on more sauce. Folded it all in, and then started the next one. 5 minutes.

Into a 450 degree oven, baked for ten minutes, done. Really, really delicious, and a hair over thirty minutes in total for both prep and cooking time. Success!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This sounds SPECTACULAR, and I'll try it on chix cutlets. Bravo!
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[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Slice 'em thin if you do. Fish cooks much faster than chicken, and deals better with being partially steamed.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Yeah, with chicken, I think I'd broil or poach or stir-fry the chicken and just pour the sauce on. No way would I trust chicken to be done in parchement in ten minutes.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

See, what you call "easy" stops being easy for me after the first five ingredients. :)

I am making spaghetti like the lazy person I am. I've been adventurous enough this week.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Well, only four actually required chopping (peaches, onions, garlic, jalapeno). And they really barely required that - the onion only involved one slice in total. The rest were just dumped in - I didn't even really measure anything. Food processors are amazing.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Point of note: She probably wouldn't have made this just for herself. We've noted before, it makes a lot of difference the effort you'll go to for two people versus one. If I was making fish just for myself, it'd be a little garlic and olive oil, in the broiler, done.