Fish Fail!
Today was a total kitchen fish fail! I'd seen a dish called salt-baked fish. It's an Italian dish that involves sealing a fish into a crust of egg white and Kosher salt. You bake it until the crust hardens, then crack it open and lift the fish out. It looks fun! I was worried that the fish would be hugely salty, but the recipes I found for it all swore that the salt stayed away from the fish but sealed in juices.
Today I decided to try it. I followed the recipe exactly, as I always do the first time I make something. It came out of the oven looking interesting--a big pie of hardened salt. I cracked it open at the table, lifted the fish out, and served it. Darwin and I tried it. (Max hates fish in general and refused it.)
Ohhhhh, it was awful! Salt, salt, and more salt. Blargh! We picked through the fish, looking for bits that weren't all salt, but they were few and far between. Blech!
Fortunately, I'd reserved a bit of fish from the recipe and baked it normally so we had at least a little something to eat, but boy! Awful, awful, awful!
After cleaning up, I made myself a smoothie out of bananas and frozen blueberries. Much better!
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Today I decided to try it. I followed the recipe exactly, as I always do the first time I make something. It came out of the oven looking interesting--a big pie of hardened salt. I cracked it open at the table, lifted the fish out, and served it. Darwin and I tried it. (Max hates fish in general and refused it.)
Ohhhhh, it was awful! Salt, salt, and more salt. Blargh! We picked through the fish, looking for bits that weren't all salt, but they were few and far between. Blech!
Fortunately, I'd reserved a bit of fish from the recipe and baked it normally so we had at least a little something to eat, but boy! Awful, awful, awful!
After cleaning up, I made myself a smoothie out of bananas and frozen blueberries. Much better!
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