Happy Sunday Sweet Cookies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
While I can't claim to have ever gotten so genuinely excited about "Haddock" (true be that) today my prior patterns did thus change!
Standing in Trader Joe's this morning while hungry (dangerous to do) I wanted a "one stop shopping" experience, (as opposed to my normal trek of popping into many places), and to get home and get cooking my Sunday dinner.
And so, with the only WILD caught fresh fish (that looked well today there) being some Haddock, I did put it into my cart and I am very glad for that!
Leary aside, (not ever being a zealous "Haddock" fan), I was willing to try to make it delicious...
I therefore got pistachio shells into my little mini gas smoker (instead of smoking chips)...Knuckle47 on this site, did teach me well!
And meanwhile, chopped up a yellow pepper, orange pepper, and red pepper...
And I put some blackberries into a perforated grill pan, (I greased the pan first with grapeseed oil)...
And placed this in the lower area of the smoker...
Meanwhile, I put the baby bella mushrooms and haddock (both mopped through grapeseed oil) onto the top portion of the little smoker...
And let both racks smoke together, for just 10 minutes on high heat...
Meanwhile, I made a pot of black rice on the stove...
And then mixed those chopped raw colored peppers and some fresh chives into that...
And I whisked together a simple apple cider vinegar & olive oil salad dressing...
To put over a wild arugula salad with chopped raw elephant garlic and black pepper and red Hawaiian sea salt...
When the fish came off the smoker it was SOOOOOOOOO delicate and soft and aromatic (subtle pistachio smell) and falling apart and moist!!! The mushrooms - having snitched one of course - were juicy and fantastic...
The blackberries stayed intact during the ten minutes on that lower rack and yet got smoky tasting and were GORGEOUS!
(Almost as if a balsamic or current-esque syrup was drizzled onto the food but better to me, in that the texture of the berries was really fun, instead of just liquid)...
So I assembled that and added olive oil, black pepper, and red Hawaiian sea salt over everything...
And it was beyond delicious!!!!
Simple, full of texture, explosively juicy mushrooms and berries, sultry chives, fabulous black rice, and the softest fish!!!
So simple and yet also healthful!!!
(And so much better tasting than I expected when standing in the store much earlier today and being a bit worried about the selection or lack thereof)...
Every ingredient could be tasted, and nothing was lost or overpowered!
Even the olive oil could be detected and tasted and smelled wonderfully still!
And each crunchy pepper piece and the raw garlic in the arugula and the freshly ground black pepper were all in harmony too!
It was as if each thing on its own was introducing itself!!! Smiles.
I really loved it all!
SUPER delicate and soft fish!
And when smooshing blackberries and oil drizzles into each bite and tasting the lovely red salt and black pepper, I suddenly realized that "Haddock," (or smoked Haddock anyway), is quite genuinely GOOD!
Having split the rice/fish plate with my husband, he was then full, and so I ate the entire arugula salad myself, as a second course or dessert or "after-tizer" as a dear pal of mine says so well.
Ahhh, Sunday dinner! How very grateful am I!
And now the sun is out here. And I am taking it!!!
Thanks so very much for sharing in my meal today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please make today delicious, and hug a stranger, and think of 3 so very fabulous things and then go write them down somewhere even!!! (Loony advice perhaps, but wow does it make each day delightful)!!!!! Smiles.
OK Cute Smoking Cookies; Happy Sunday to ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CHEERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Leah
While I can't claim to have ever gotten so genuinely excited about "Haddock" (true be that) today my prior patterns did thus change!
Standing in Trader Joe's this morning while hungry (dangerous to do) I wanted a "one stop shopping" experience, (as opposed to my normal trek of popping into many places), and to get home and get cooking my Sunday dinner.
And so, with the only WILD caught fresh fish (that looked well today there) being some Haddock, I did put it into my cart and I am very glad for that!
Leary aside, (not ever being a zealous "Haddock" fan), I was willing to try to make it delicious...
I therefore got pistachio shells into my little mini gas smoker (instead of smoking chips)...Knuckle47 on this site, did teach me well!
And meanwhile, chopped up a yellow pepper, orange pepper, and red pepper...
And I put some blackberries into a perforated grill pan, (I greased the pan first with grapeseed oil)...
And placed this in the lower area of the smoker...
Meanwhile, I put the baby bella mushrooms and haddock (both mopped through grapeseed oil) onto the top portion of the little smoker...
And let both racks smoke together, for just 10 minutes on high heat...
Meanwhile, I made a pot of black rice on the stove...
And then mixed those chopped raw colored peppers and some fresh chives into that...
And I whisked together a simple apple cider vinegar & olive oil salad dressing...
To put over a wild arugula salad with chopped raw elephant garlic and black pepper and red Hawaiian sea salt...
When the fish came off the smoker it was SOOOOOOOOO delicate and soft and aromatic (subtle pistachio smell) and falling apart and moist!!! The mushrooms - having snitched one of course - were juicy and fantastic...
The blackberries stayed intact during the ten minutes on that lower rack and yet got smoky tasting and were GORGEOUS!
(Almost as if a balsamic or current-esque syrup was drizzled onto the food but better to me, in that the texture of the berries was really fun, instead of just liquid)...
So I assembled that and added olive oil, black pepper, and red Hawaiian sea salt over everything...
And it was beyond delicious!!!!
Simple, full of texture, explosively juicy mushrooms and berries, sultry chives, fabulous black rice, and the softest fish!!!
So simple and yet also healthful!!!
(And so much better tasting than I expected when standing in the store much earlier today and being a bit worried about the selection or lack thereof)...
Every ingredient could be tasted, and nothing was lost or overpowered!
Even the olive oil could be detected and tasted and smelled wonderfully still!
And each crunchy pepper piece and the raw garlic in the arugula and the freshly ground black pepper were all in harmony too!
It was as if each thing on its own was introducing itself!!! Smiles.
I really loved it all!
SUPER delicate and soft fish!
And when smooshing blackberries and oil drizzles into each bite and tasting the lovely red salt and black pepper, I suddenly realized that "Haddock," (or smoked Haddock anyway), is quite genuinely GOOD!
Having split the rice/fish plate with my husband, he was then full, and so I ate the entire arugula salad myself, as a second course or dessert or "after-tizer" as a dear pal of mine says so well.
Ahhh, Sunday dinner! How very grateful am I!
And now the sun is out here. And I am taking it!!!
Thanks so very much for sharing in my meal today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please make today delicious, and hug a stranger, and think of 3 so very fabulous things and then go write them down somewhere even!!! (Loony advice perhaps, but wow does it make each day delightful)!!!!! Smiles.
OK Cute Smoking Cookies; Happy Sunday to ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CHEERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Leah
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