Fish Sandwich
Inspired by an amazing display of Pacific Halibut at Foragers and my new How To Cook Everything iPhone app, i made some fish sandwiches tonight. The fish was amazing... in the end kinda disappointed i added so much stuff to it because it was so fresh and delicious totally on its own. Nonetheless, this is a decent fish sandwich. I think i've liked my take on Mary's Fish Camp Cod sandwich more than this, but this was mad easy.Here's what i did:
- Oiled a halibut filet and added salt and pepper.
- Grilled this over high heat for about 10 minutes (7 minutes skin side down, 3 minutes flesh side down)
- Grill-toasted ciabatta rolls for 2-3 minutes
- Made a mayo dressing consisting of Mayo, Lime Juice, Chili Powder, S&P (look for it in HTCE)
- Made some lime-pickeled red onion slices (juice of 1 lime and a bunch of thinly sliced red onion, soaked for an hour or more)
- Layered the sandwich first with a heavy tablespoon of the mayo mixture
- Then a hot-house heirloom tomato (totally delicious)
- Then the fish
- Then some lime-pickled red onions
- Then some spinach leaves (from Forager's farm up in Canaan, NY)
- and finally a little more of the mayo.
This was tasty, but not totally amazing. Which is one of my issues with Bittman. I'm totally obsessed with his recipes, blogs, videos, etc... but so many times I'm wishing for a bit more complex flavor. That said, i love how he explains the "why" of it all, and encourages you to noodle with it. Oddly enough, in this instance the fish was so amazing with just salt and pepper, I was left wishing i just ate it solo with maybe a little spinach on the side. Come to think of it, I ate dinner about 2 hours ago and there's another half pound of cooked fish in the fridge. What time is second dinner time again? Mmmmmm....
