Showing posts with label Cod. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cod. Show all posts
I had so much on to do today that I wanted to make us something really quick and easy for our supper. You can't get much quicker than fish!
Cooked properly without too much trouble you can easily be enjoying a lovely piece of fish in less than half an hour! Lemon & Garlic Butter Baked Cod is one of my favourite ways of preparing Cod.
I know I say that all the time when I am cooking fish, but the plain fact is I LOVE FISH, in pretty much any way shape or form and I love eating and cooking it.
And fish is so very good for you. My mother always said that fish was brain food. I always believed her. As a child when we were eating fish for supper, I always imagined that my brain was expanding and becoming exponentially smarter with every mouthfull.
Kids can be so very impressionable. I don't think that it was a bad thing that our mother made us think that fish made us smarter. It created a great love for fish and helped it to become a favourite! I love cooking and eating it.
Every way is my favourite way! I especially love LOVE Cod. It is so sweet and succulent, very mild flavoured. It lends itself beautifully to all sorts of treatment. I would rather have a good piece of Cod rather than a piece of lobster any day of the week!
We get our Cod from Seafresh. They are online purveyors of quality fish. They have beautiful North Atlantic Cod Loins which are thick, firm and delicately flavoured. I just love them. In all truth I have never had a bad piece of fish from them.
Everything has been beautiful. I think I have tried just about everything in their line of products and nothing has disappointed me yet.
Seafresh has access to some of the best quality products
from Britain and around the world, largely due to the good relationships
they have fostered with their suppliers since 1996.
It was in 1996 that they began
with the very simple concept of selling high quality frozen foods to
their customers right in the comfort of their own homes. I've been enjoying their fabulous products for over a year now and I have to say I have never been disappointed.
I can't say the same thing about shop bought fish. I really can't. Most of the time I have been hugely disappointed.
And when you are talking about something which has as hefty a price tag as fish has, you really can't afford to and don't want to be disappointed!
This is a really quick and simple way of preparing fish. It works well with Cod and would probably work with most varieties of fish.
I think milder flavoured fish such as Cod or Sole really work well with these flavours, but I can see it also working well with Sea Bass or Haddock.
It involves seasoning the fish and popping it into a baking dish. You can butter the baking dish if you wish, but I never do.
Spooning a simple lemon, olive oil and garlic sauce over top, dotting it with cold buter nd a few lemon slices and then baking it to perfection.
It doesn't take long . . . 15 to 20 minutes if you are using thawed fish. This timing will give you cooked perfection.
My fish is not refrigerator cold either. I usually let it sit at room temperature for about 15 minutes or so before I begin.
The lemon, garlic and butter flavour the fish beautifully and mingle with the juices of the fish to make a fabulously tasty sauce to spoon over top.
I never eat the lemon, but it does look really pretty sitting there, and of course it imparts a lovely flavour to the fish as well.
Oh my but this is some gorgeous. Quantities are given to serve two people, but it can very easily be doubled to serve more. Its that easy with simple things . . . and this is simple.
To serve more, just double up on everything. More butter, more lemon, more garlic. Oh my, just saying that gets my tastebuds tingling. Butter, lemon and garlic, a trinity of good taste!
I served them with twice baked stuffed potato halves that I had made yesterday and some tenderstem broccoli. This was a fabulously delicious meal, quick and easy and a real husband pleaser.
Todd never minds when we have fish for supper. He knows that it is going to be delicious and perfectly cooked. I have had lots of practice at getting everything just right!
I just realised I have never given you my recipe for Stuffed Twice Baked Potatoes. I'll have to remedy that! Its very simple. For four, just bake two large baking potatoes until they are tender and yield slightly to the touch. About 1 hour at 225*C/425*F. I put them right onto the oven rack, pricking them first with a fork.
Once they are soft I let them cool until I can handle them and then I cut them in half lengthwise. I scoop out the flesh and mash it together with salt, pepper, butter, sour cream, sometimes some cheese, chives or spring onion and then I restuff the potatoes, sprinkling the tops with some paprika.
Back into the oven for about 10 to 15 minutes and Bob's Your Uncle! Stuffed Twice Baked Potato perfection that will go with just about anything!
Lemon & Garlic Butter Baked Cod
Yield: 2
prep time: 5 Mcook time: 15 Mtotal time: 20 M
This is incredibly easy and so very delicious.
Ingredients:
- 2 cod loin fillets
- 1 TBS extra virgin olive oil
- the juice of one lemon
- 2 cloves of garlic, peeled and minced
- fine sea salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
- 2 TBS cold butter, diced
- 4 slices of lemon
- chopped parsley to garnish
Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 200*C/400*F/ gas mark 6. Butter a baking dish large enough to hold the cod fillet in one layer with some space between them for the air to circulate.
- Pat the fish dry with some paper towel. Season all over with salt and black pepper. Place into the dish, top side up.
- Whisk together the lemon juice, olive oil and garlic. Spoon over the fish evenly. Dot the fish with the cold butter. Lay two slices of lemon on top of each fillet.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the fish flakes easily and is opague. Serve hot, sprinkled with parsley and with some of the pan juices spooned over top.
Just look at how nicely cooked that is. Tender, moist and flaky. This was one very beautiful piece of fish, thanks to Seafresh.
A few things about Seafresh:
- Same Day dispatch on orders received before 1 PM.
- All packages are carefully hand packed.
- Free delivery on orders above £50, £8 on orders below that amount.
- Responsibly and sustainably sourced.
- Air Blast Frozen at source within 4 hours of being caught.
- Wide variety to choose from.
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We literally almost had a meltdown in our freezer the other day. (Yes, in addition to the actual melt down we had a few weeks back.) This time it was my fault.
Let me begin by saying we have 3 small freezers, each with 3 drawers, which store altogether about as much as a medium sized chest freezer would store.
Because of my arthritis and the fact that I am quite short, I was finding it difficult to navigate our chest freezer so we got rid of it a few years back. Anyways, the other day I put something into one of them and did not quite get it closed. DUH!
Thankfully I went to get something out the day after and noticed it before we had lost everything. (again) Anyways, All we lost was a tub of ice cream. Some of my beautiful fish had just about thawed out however.
I had just gotten a delivery from Seafresh the day before. Beautiful North Atlantic Cod Loins (thick, firm and delicately flavoured), Salmon Fillets (which are centre cuts and gorgeous), King Prawns (peeled, deveined and ready to cook), and fabulous Sea Bass (boneless and sustainable).
Thankfully all that was affected was half of the cod. It did still have ice crystals in it, but not enough that I felt safe re-freezing it.
Seafresh is an on line fish monger, which sells quality fish, seafood,
poultry and meat. They have access to some of the best quality products
from Britain and around the world.
This is largely due to the good relationships
they have fostered with their suppliers since 1996, when they began
with the very simple concept of selling high quality frozen foods to
their customers right in the comfort of their own homes.
I've been enjoying their fabulous products for over a year now and I have to say I have never been disappointed.
They have been a real God-send throughout this pandemic, with their fast and reliable and efficient delivery and quality products. I have always been able to depend on them.
So anyways, although I had not planned on serving fish mid-week, I ended up cooking us some lovely Cod for our dinner that day.
There is nothing more delicious on earth than a beautiful, fresh piece of Cod and theirs is some of the best I have tasted. We have never been disappointed.
I chose to cook it very simply. This is one of the easiest ways of cooking fish and yet one of the most delicious.
It turns out perfectly every time.
Dusted with flour and seasonings it is simply pan fried in butter along with several sprigs of fresh thyme and marjoram.
You cannot get any easier.
It cooks for two to three minutes per side until golden brown and perfectly cooked. I then squeeze lemon juice over top.
The lemon juice both flavours the fish and then mingles with the delicious juices of the fish in the pan and the butter to create a lush sauce which is beautiful spooned over the finished dish.
You really don't get much better than this. On this particular day I also sprinkled the fillets with some roasted tomato seasalt that I had gotten with my tomato order.
I thought it would go well with fish and I was right. Especially Cod. It was a delicious addition.
In any case we enjoyed our fish with a simple side salad and some boiled new potatoes. We felt like we were dining like Kings. What could have been a tragic accident turned into an unexpected mid-week pleasure!
Pan Fried Cod
Yield: 2
Meltingly tender and sweet cod, cooked in butter with the addition of several fresh herbs. Simple, quick and delicious!
Ingredients:
- 2 thick Cod loins (thawed if frozen)
- 2 sprigs of fresh thyme
- 2 sprigs of fresh marjoram
- Some flour for dusting
- fine sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- ground sweet paprika
- knob of butter
- the juice of half a lemon
Instructions:
- Dry your cod loins very well with some paper kitchen towelling. Dust each loin lightly with some salt, pepper and paprika. Roll them in the flour, patting lightly on both sides to help it adhere and shaking off any excess. Set aside.
- Melt a knob of butter in a large skillet over medium high heat, along with the springs of thyme and marjoram. Once it begins to foam, add the fish, presentation side down, and cook for 2 to 3 minutes on one side, until golden brown. Flip over and cook for a further 2 to 3 minutes, until browned and the fish is just cooked through. (The edges should flake easily with teased with the tines of a fork.)
- Squeeze the lemon over top and remove immediately from the heat. Swirl the pan to amalgamate the juices of the fish, lemon and butter.
- Divide the fish between 2 heated plates. Spoon some of the butter from the pan and herbs over top of each portion. Serve immediately.
Just look at how nicely cooked that is. This was one very beautiful piece of fish, thanks to Seafresh.
A few things about Seafresh:
- Same Day dispatch on orders received before 1 PM.
- All packages are carefully hand packed.
- Free delivery on orders above £50, £8 on orders below that amount.
- Responsibly and sustainably sourced.
- Air Blast Frozen at source within 4 hours of being caught.
- Wide variety to choose from.
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