I have an obsession. I love buying cookbooks. And not just the easy-to-make weeknight recipe books but super hard and complicated cookbooks produced by amazing chefs that have some of the best restaurants in the nation (some of them ~ the world). When I buy these cookbooks I read through them with post-it notes flagging countless recipes I want to cook. But I rarely cook them. I’m not even a very good cook. I also have run out of space for them on my bookshelf. So before the cookbooks take over my house I think I should use them… cook with them.
So here’s my project: to cook every recipe in my fancy-smancy cookbooks. And to document them here, as I hope my blog obsession will force me to actually cook these recipes so that I can blog about them.
December 29, 2010
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Sea Bass with Green Sauce
This recipe came from Rachel Ray’s magazine, but can also be found online here.
Now the recipe sounded delicious and the pictures in the magazine looked great but I wasn’t a fan of the fact that it included anchovies. Yuck. But since I was too afraid that excluding it would lead to a bland dish, into the grocery basket went these little suckers.
I started off by making the green sauce. In a food processor went 1 shallot, garlic cloves, basil leaves, parsley, dill, capers, and 4 anchovy fillets.
As the sauce was being pureed, I drizzled some EVOO into the food processor to help bind it all together.
And since I didn’t want the remaining anchovies anywhere near me, the kitteh’s got an early Christmas present.
In a large skillet, I cooked up four portions of sea bass (it was supposed to be halibut per the recipe but the sea bass in the grocery store looked better) seasoned with old bay seasoning. I absolutely love old bay seasoning.
After about 7 minutes the fish was taken off the stove and topped with a heap of green sauce. And with that, bon appetit.
