On to the Dish – Seared Halibut w/ Brussels Sprouts & Mascarpone Whippers
For the potatoes – I like to use Yukon gold potatoes for my mashed taters. They don’t have the gritty texture that Russet(the big brown ones) do. Peel three taters, you can cut them up or leave whole, but if you cut them try to make all the pieces relatively the same size so they cook evenly. Start w/ cold water. Never drop taters into boiling water. And there’s no need to salt the water either. To see if the taters are done cooking, take a sharp knife and stab one of the chunks, lift it vertically straight up and if the chuck slips off the end they’re done. Now drain the water out, toss in 1 stick of butter (this is a little excessive if you’re a health freak – you could go w/ ½ a stick but I wouldn’t) and scoop in about 8 oz’s of mascarpone cheese (this is the standard size container you’ll find at the grocery store), add about ¼ cup of milk. Now personally I prefer to use a hand mixer, you know the one you plug in w/ the 2 beaters… Whip the potatoes until just smooth, but don’t overwork them b/c they’ll become gummy and gummy potatoes are mediocre at best! Now taste them, what do they need in your opinion salt, pepper, Slavo Salt, more milk to loosen them up???
For the brussell’s, always cut the bottom off of brussell sprouts where they were attached to the stalk. If you’ve never seen a brussell sprout stalk in-tact, Google it – looks like a medieval weapon, but damn they taste fantastic! Okay so after you’ve removed the bottom part rough chop the sprouts. What does rough chop mean – It means you don’t need to try to make everything uniform size, just chop it up. Take half a yellow onion and small dice it. Now take a bit of grape seed oil and put it in your pan over med-high heat. Toss in your onions and cook until translucent. Then toss in the chopped brussells, using tongs or a spatula or whatever – toss & stir over the heat. After a bit, find a brussel that is part of the dense core, and taste it. When they have the texture that is good for you, remove from the heat (usually a couple minutes – I like mine similar to a cucumber texture). Season w/ a tablespoon of butter and some Slavo Salt.
So Halibut are ya ready?! This is my favorite kinda fish. Beautiful white flesh and pure flavor. Which is why I usually just season the fish generously w/ kosher salt; it just looks cleaner and you taste the flavor of the meat. That doesn’t mean SS doesn’t work on halibut, it’s excellent – I just eat mine this way. Get your biggest fry pan on high heat. Once the pan’s hot put a healthy pour of grape seed oil into the pan & move it around the pan. CAREFULLY lay the halibut down in the direction away from your body so you do not splash HOT OIL back towards you. Oil burns fukn hurt so use a little common sense here please. Once you see some nice gold brown around the edge of the fish, carefully lift the piece out of the pan for a second or two and then lay it right back down the way it was (this is going to give the fish a really nice golden crust on the top!)
After another minute – flip the fish over to the uncooked side. This is where you need to use your judgment as to when it’s done cooking b/c different sizes of fish. I look for when center of the fish turns from opaque to white. I remove the pan from the heat and let it sit with the fish in it for another minute or so.
Pile it all on a plate and get after it! I’d recommend a Johannesburg Riesling and eat this out on the patio w/ some friends and family this weekend!
Have a fun & Safe Weekend everybody. Cheers
Ah, darn it Lisa. I’m really sorry to hear you have RA. I’ve only known a clpoue of people with it, and, well, having RA doesn’t make thier life easy peasy. I hate that you have it. Ok .I love it when people ask me the lupus/vegetarian question, because I can’t wait to answer it. Becomng a vegetarian is the single greatest thing I ever did for my lupus condition. I was on the lookout for lupus flares all the time pre-vegetarian days. THe thing that most causes me to have them is heat and sun exposure, but sometimes I would get a flare just because.My flares consisted of a few symptoms, but the symptom that scared me the most was fevers. Once I came down with a flare, I was averaging a 101 temp for several days. Typical over the counter meds wouldn’t bring it down. I would also get bladder infections, severe joint pain (joint pain in my shoulders .to the point of it being painful sometimes to use my arms). And the fatigue during a flare is unlike anything I have ever experienced. I could literally sleep for 18 of the 24 hours in a day. Maybe more. There were other symptoms, but you get the idea. Having lupus is not what made me decide to go vegetarian. It actually didn’t even enter my mind that my condition would approve with my diet changes. My animal love/sensitivity is the real reason I am meatless. However, after a few months of being a vegetarian, I could not believe the way I was feeling. In the last two years, I have not had a flare at all in which I developed a fever. I haven’t had a bladder infection. My joint pain is so dramatically reduced that I can go weeks without feeling any discomfort whatsoever. There has been a few times that I felt overly tired and fatigued for a few days, but nothing like the flares I used to have, in which I was adherred to the bed or couch for days on end. Because of my own results (results that took me by surprise), I am a firm believer in health by diet. HOWEVER, I used to eat A LOT of meat. I live in Oklahoma. Meat is what you eat here. Sometimes meals consisted of nothing but heaping piles of meat. Truly. No veggeis or grains just MEAT. When I think about how many chickens I must have eaten in my lifetime, I cringe. What I’m saying is this .going vegetarian was a HUGE change for my system. For an already health conscience eater, who already consumes a lot of veg in place of meat, I worry about how much the transition of going meatless will help any ailments they have. I have no information to back up that worry, it’s just something that I think is a slight possibilitly. Again, I’m so sorry to hear you have RA. Really sorry. I hope this helped you out some. BUT, please don’t think I’m trying to talk you into starting a vegetarian diet. I wouldn’t do that.
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