Halibut with Balsamic Glaze

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
• 1 tablespoons honey
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 5 garlic cloves, minced
• halibut fillets,  four 6 ounces per person
• Olive oil cooking spray

1. Mix the vinegar, honey, oil, and garlic in a bowl. Place halibuts in shallow dish and pour marinade over the fish, coating it completely. Cover and refrigerate 30-60 minutes.

2. Preheat the broiler. Line the baking pan/sheet with foil. Spray the foil with olive oil or nonstick cooking spray.
3. Remove fish from marinade and arrange the fillets on the baking sheet. Broil the fillets until they are just cooked through and caramelized on top, about 12 minutes.

4. Keep marinade; Pour the marinade into a heavy small saucepan and while fish is cooking, bring the marinade to a boil and simmer until it thickens slightly and becomes syrupy; whisk often, about 15 minutes.

5. Transfer the fillets to plates. Spoon the sauce over and around the fillets, and serve.

 

Enjoy!

Red Wine Fish Soup

   Ingredients:

Fish, Cut the fish into the slices 1 “ thick. 

Butter 

1 Onion

i tablespoon of flour

1 pint of red wine

1 tablespoon of meat stock

1 bouquet garni (i used bay leave, sage, parsley, thyme)

3 cloves of garlic

16 oz of mushrooms

Salt, pepper

24 little onions or 8 shallots cut in half

1. Put a tablespoonful of butter and a chopped onion into a casserole. When it is golden add a 

tablespoonful of flour, which you will let brown.

2. Moisten with a generous pint of red wine and a tablespoonful of strong meat stock.

 

Add a bouquet garni, a cloves of garlic, mushrooms, salt, pepper, and shallots or little onions which you have peeled and browned lightly but thoroughly in butter.

Bouquet garni (i used bay leave, sage, parsley, thyme)

 

Let the sauce cook ten minutes. Add the slices of fish to it and let it simmer very gently for 20 minutes.

 

Take out the bouquet and the garlic, and then serve with the edges of the casserole encircled with slices of crusty bread fried in the best butter. Eat with spoons like a cioppino.

Corvina Steaks with Garlic Butter

Ingredients:

• Fillet or stake of corvina
• Chopped garlic
• Butter
• Salt to taste
• White pepper to taste
• Chopped fresh parsley
• Wedge of lemon

 

1. Salt and pepper the fillet on both sides. Melt the butter in a skillet and cook the fillet until done, about 3 to 4 minutes on each side. 

1. Remove the fillet and add the chopped garlic. Cook gently over medium heat until soft, but not brown.
2. Place the fillet on a plate and spoon the garlic butter over it. Sprinkle some fresh chopped parsley (optional) and serve with lemon or line wedges.

Escolar with Garlic and Herbs

Escolar with Garlic and Herbs

Escolar (Wahu) is like swordfish only much fattier, and it is sometimes sold as "White Tuna."
Escolar's thick and fatty; you can use bone-in steaks or fillet.

Instead of escolar you can use swordfish or mahi-mahi.

2 Tbsp olive oil
1 Tbsp lemon juice
2 Tbsp chopped rosemary
2 garlic cloves, finely minced
2-4 pieces escolar steak without skin ((eating escolar in quantities larger than 6oz  might not agree with your stomach)
 Salt and pepper

1. Mix olive oil, lemon juice, rosemary, and garlic.

1. Season the fish generously with salt and pepper, and rub all over with rosemary garlic mixture.
2. Preheat the broiler. Wrap a broiler pan with foil, and place the fish into it.

1. Broil for 8 minutes per inch of thickness flipping halfway through cooking time. To test for doneness, make a small incision in the center of the steak and peek inside. Fish is done when only a trace of translucency remains in the center.

 Escolar served with baked broccoli.

 

Note: You can also grill escolar covered on medium-high, timing is the same as for broiling.

Enjoy!

Baked Acorn Squash

• 1 Acorn squash
• 1 Tbsp Butter
• 2 teaspoons Maple Syrup
• Dash of Salt

1. Preheat oven to 400°F.

2. Using a knife cut the acorn squash in half, lengthwise, from stem to end. Use a spoon to scoop out the seeds and stuff in the center of each half. Score the insides of each half several times with a sharp knife. Place each half in a baking pan, cut side up. Add about a 1/4 inch of water to the bottom of the baking pan so that the skins don't burn and the squash doesn't get dried out.

3. Coat the inside of each half with 1/2 a Tbsp of butter. Add a dash of salt (optional). Dribble on a teaspoon of maple syrup to each half.

4. Bake in the oven for 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes, until the squash is very soft and the tops are browned. Do not undercook. Remove from oven and let cool a little before serving.

Pecena cvijetaca (Baked cauliflower)

• 1 glavica cvijetace
• 1 luk
• 2 jajeta
• 2 supene kasike brasna
• 2 kasike pavlake (sour cream)
• 2 kasike cottage sir (cottage cheese)
• 1/2 cup mlijeka
• so
• 2 kasike prezle (bread crumbs)

1. Ocistite cvijetacu, odstranite listove, razdjelite je na cvjetove, operite i stavite u kipucu vodu u koju ste dodali malo soli. Kuhajte cvijetacu 3-4  minute. 
2. Izvadite cvijetacu iz vode i poslazite je u pomascenu tepsiju

3. Sacuvajte malo vode u kojoj se kuhala cvijtaca.
3.  Dok se cvjetaca kuha, pripremite umak. Isjeckani luk preprizti na maslacu; dodati brasno i preprziti ga.

3. Dodati mlijeko i umijesati ga da ne bude grudvica; dodati zumanca i bjelanca prethodno umucena

 4. Dodati parmezan, pavlaku i cottage sir, dodavati vode od skuhane cvijetace da umak ne bude previse gust

 5. Cjetacu u tepsiji, gusto naslagani cvijetovi od cvijetace, zalijte umakom i pospite preprzenim mrvicama hljeba (mrvice se ne moraju preprziti).

6.  Zagrijte pekaru na 350 F, peci cvijetacu 30-40 minuta.

Cvijetacu mozete posluziti kao glavno jelo ili kao prilog nekom mesu.

Cvijetaca posluzena sa pecenom mahi

Prijatno!

Baked Mahi fillets

• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 1/2 cup soy sauce
• 2 tbsp. Lemon juice
• Garlic, black pepper

1. Wash the Mahi Mahi fillets and pat dry with paper towel.
2.  Make marinade by mixing the olive oil, soy sauce, lemon juice, garlic and black pepper in the plastic bag.
3. Place the Mahi Mahi fillets in the plastic bag and close it; make sure fillets are covered with marinade. Place the fillets in the refrigerator and let it marinate for few hours.

4. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Take the fillets out of the bag and place in a  baking pan. Pour the remaining marinade over the fish fillets. 

Cover the baking dish with aluminum foil and bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until opaque and flaky.

Mahi served with baked couliflower

Or with Brussels sprouts



Prijatno!