I can make deliciousness

[jethrien]

Well, the squash was obviously a no-go. I was kind of proud of the fish, despite the fact I wasn't super enthusiastic about it. I've been trying to teach myself to like fish, and bought some frozen whiting that turned out to be a lot fishier than I'm willing to tolerate at this point. I managed to finish off the last in a vaguely tolerable fashion by lemon-bombing it--there was the overkill combination of lemon butter, lemon pepper, and slices of lemon. After soaking the filets in milk for twenty minutes. Still nowhere near as good as, say, tuna or bass, but significantly less fishy.

But the triumph was my lemon-rosemary bread with chestnuts and raisins. Even before I started the fish, the entire house smelled of lemon zest. Oh, this bread is so good. I love homemade bread.

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[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Why is it that every Sunday when I finish cooking, my apartment smells like onion?

(I may have overdid it on the onion. A bit.)

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Our apartment smells like onion and/or garlic a lot.

It's because onion and garlic are delicious and make almost everything savory taste better.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

lemon-rosemary bread sounds FABULOUS. Oh my GAWD.

I'm doing bacon-dill cod this week, and I tried to buy the nommy-looking honey chipotle salmon at the market, but the guy gave me potato-crusted cod instead, so I think I'm going to do that with some whipped dill-garlic potatoes later this week.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Those are two very different things. This guy doesn't sound very good at his job.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

He doesn't speak English, and he went for the fish in the front of the case instead of the fish in the back. "Salmon" and "cod" are not the same, though, and I just...sigh.

Fortunately, I was thinking about doing the potato cod, so it's not the end of the world, but the panko-crusted honey-chipotle salmon looked so good...

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

panko-crusted honey-chipotle salmon

...I wonder if the supermarket has any decent salmon today. I was going to do a stir-fry, but that'll keep and now I'm all intrigued.

[firynze.livejournal.com]

It looked divine.

I have panko, and I have chipotles, and I have honey. And there's a frozen salmon fillet in my freezer. I may have this dish yet, just not pre-breaded and seasoned.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I'll encourage this idea.

[lithoglyphic.livejournal.com]

I want to make that bread...

[lithoglyphic.livejournal.com]

I have NEVER had to throw out leftover, forgotten produce from the allium family. Onions and garlic go in almost anything.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

It's a bread machine bread--not sure how it would come out by hand. Do you want the recipe? I edited somewhat heavily...

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

We occasionally have cloves of garlic escape from their bag and hide until they're not food any more. Which is sad.

[lithoglyphic.livejournal.com]

I have a bread machine! That's even better... I've been looking for an excuse to use the thing.

[lithoglyphic.livejournal.com]

Garlic and olive oil are the two things that live on my counter. I've got the garlic in a little glass dish.