Fish: It's What's for Dinner

Ever since about 1.5 years ago, we've been trying to eat more healthily in our household. No doubt, we don't always accomplish that, but we try 80% of the time. Luckily, Rick loves to cook, otherwise, I think we would starve! Or just eat Lean Cuisines all the time...

One of the healthier lean proteins you can have is fish. I never thought I liked fish except deep fried shrimp. I thought it all tasted "fishy." But I knew it was good for me, so I wanted to give it a try. If you don't think you're a fish person, I'd start with something really mild like tilapia or cod. Our first fish dish was tilapia, and once I realized I really liked it, we ventured out to try other things, like salmon. Honestly, if fresh and prepared properly, salmon is not fishy at all. I liked it so much, I had it at our wedding! We also got to try all sorts of neat fresh fish in Hawaii, like opah which was ohmygosh so delicious! We had it at Duke's Waikiki with basmati rice (which also made me love basmati rice, and it makes an appearance in this recipe).

The other day, Rick found a new recipe online for Parmesan Baked Alaska Cod. He found it all on his own, and I was super pleased with it; so much so, that we've had it two weeks in a row now. Here is the recipe with some pics....

Ingredients:
3 tbsp flour
3 tbsp Italian bread crumbs (can use Panko)
1/4 tsp onion salt
1/2 tsp each of chili powder, paprika and cumin (or more if you like things spicy)
salt & pepper to taste
2 tbsp margerine
1 pound cod fillets
parmesan cheese to taste


Directions
 Separate cod into four equal servings.

Melt butter in a shallow dish.
Meanwhile, combine flour, bread crumbs, and all seasonings in separate dish.

Dredge cod pieces in flour & spice mixture. Set aside.
Once all pieces are coated, dredge them in the butter and place in baking pan.
Sprinkle cod with parmesan cheese (a little is healthier, but a lot tastes better!)
Bake at 450º for ten minutes or until cod flakes easily.


If you would like, you can serve it with basmati rice like we did. I know brown rice is healthy for you, and I have been trying to like it for the past 1.5 years, and I just can't. It's so bland by itself. We have started substituting it for white in casseroles, stir fries, etc. where you don't taste it as much. But I cannot eat it alone. Basmati has flavor, and is almost as healthy.

 We've also used the chicken flavored kind and it was good as well.


We served it up with mixed veggies, and voila. A healthy and delicious meal.

  This week has been a crazy one for us, and for me especially with extra stuff going on at work, and it being my first week this semester of Grad school homework again (last class yay!) The home redecoration is still coming along. We are in the process now of getting our pictures in order--deciding which wedding ones we want to order, as well as which honeymoon photos we want in which frames. But all of the big things are finished. Along with all of this, we are looking into bigger places to move into. We have completely outgrown this apartment. There are a few promising duplexes/houses for rent that we are going to check into. Hopefully we can report we are moving soonish!

I'll leave you with a teaser shot of part of our new office to suffice until we have it all finished.

Good night :)