Pan-fried Rockfish

This is a really simple recipe, but delicious! 

 

I recommend using a non-stick pan.  Totally optional, but fish tends to stick pretty easily to pans.  We use extra-virgin olive oil to cook the fish, so keep the heat down to medium-high.  You don't want to overheat (olive oil becomes toxic and starts to smoke at a lower temperature).  Warm up your pan, add the olive oil (depending on the size of your skillet, use 1 - 2 Tbsps. of extra virgin olive oil).  Take your rock-fish fillets and put them in the pan.  Sprinkle kosher salt and pepper on the fillet and cook for 1-2 minutes, then flip, sprinkle more salt and pepper on the other side and cook another 1-2 minutes.  Right before removing from the pan, add 1-2 Tbsps. of butter to the pan, flip the fillet to coat.  Squeeze 1/4 of a lemon over the fillet right before serving.

 

Ingredients:

 

• 1-2 pounds of rockfish, filleted
• 1-2 Tbsps. of extra virgin olive oil
• 1-2 Tbsps. butter
• 1/4 of a lemon
• kosher salt
• black pepper

The Fisherman's Mom

We live by the coast and my son LOVES to fish.  Every weekend, he is out on the boat, fishing.  Which means, every weekend, we have fresh fish coming into the house.  Luckily for me, he has learned which fish that we love to eat, and the ones that we don't so much love to eat.  So, he brings us home rockfish, white fish, yellowtail, sculpin... (I'm still waiting for a halibut, but that would require him to be bottom fishing, which is apparently an issue), and he no longer brings home the oiler fish like barracuda and mackerel.

My husband has become an expert at preparing the fish.  He gets it all nicely trimmed and de-boned, then freezer packs the fillets that we are not going to eat in the next day or two.  Unfortunately, while he is doing this, the house gets filled with the not-so-lovely aroma of fish.  Here's where tip #1 comes in:

#1 While filleting fish, set a small bowl filled with vinegar in the kitchen.  For some reason, the vinegar absorbs the fish odor.  (Yay!)

With all of the lovely fish to eat, we have come up with a list of favorite recipes.  There are quite a few different cooking techniques we have tried, and we have discovered that the simplest ones have the most tasty results (most of the time).

Favorite Fish Dishes:

1. Pan-fried Rockfish
2. Fish Tacos
3. Yellowtail Poki
4. Seared Ahi
5. Pan-fried Yellowtail (my personal favorite)

Fashion Know Noes

I am not fashion savvy.  I'm overweight and have made more than my fair share of errors. What I know is noes.  I'm still learning more every day.  If a fashion mistake is out there, I'm likely to fall into it.

First one:  Leggings are not trousers.  This was brought to my attention when my partner informed me that he could see my pants under my black leggings.  I was so sure my jumper was long enough to cover my backside, but alas, no. Spinning around, gawping over my shoulder to see in the mirror, sure enough - I could see everything.  All day I'd been subjecting my workmates to my overexposed self.  What an awesome moment that was.

Once I knew, I couldn't stop seeing it.  Like rubber necking an accident - you drive along thinking, "I will not look.  I will not look.  I will not look..." and then you look.  Same principal, when I see a woman walking down the street in uncovered leggings, I try not to look, but then, out of the corner of my eye, it's just there.  There was a woman at the shops one Saturday morning wearing white leggings. Me, my partner and everyone else who walked past her got to know just exactly how much she was not even wearing pants.  

At least once a week some lass takes to the high street near my work, walking about with her unmentionables on display.  Please, ladies, unless you really need to indulge the exhibitionist in you, remember the operative word when wearing this particular item of clothing:  leg.  They are meant to be leg coverings.  Not trousers.  If they were meant to cover anything else effectively, they'd have a different name.