I’ve had quite a learning curve when it comes to choosing and preparing seafood for dinner. My parents were from the Mid-West, so we ate a lot of beef. During my entire childhood I can’t recall having any seafood except that which was breaded and formed into the shape of a stick.
In more than three decades of marriage, I’ve had some great success and horrendous failures fixing seafood, but in the last few years I think I’ve finally hit my stride. We eat salmon almost weekly and recently I’ve been buying cod.
I like the low price (about $5 per pound) and ease of preparation. I ask for pieces that are thicker, as the “skinny” end seems a little tough. I just throw it in a baking dish, spoon some fruit salsa over the top, cover with foil and bake
at 325 degrees for about 20-25 minutes (it’s done when it flakes easily with a fork). I would think you could fix it in a crock pot or in foil pouches on the grill if you didn’t want to heat up the kitchen. I pair the cod with brown and wild rice and a green salad and call it dinner!
Delicious, nutritious, easy and inexpensive!
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What’s your seafood finesse level?
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Try topping with some pesto ‘buttered’ on top. Lemon zest and dill are nice, as is garlic and lemon. I’ve made fish almost every way possible and I still am not a fan, I eat it because I ‘should’. Kev loves it, I struggle with it. LOVE halibut, but it’s so rare in the UK, it’s stinking expensive and if you find it in a restaurant, they absolutely ‘murder’ it. Sigh…it’s a struggle I’m still fighting. I know I should eat it, I just don’t like it.
Mmmmmm….pesto!