In my haste to get all my pictures for my other posts uploaded, and the post on the pork chops done today, being home and done finals and therefore having time to write all this up, I nearly forgot about a little midnight experiment I had while writing papers. I was hungry, there was one last chunk of fish in the fridge from the aforementioned fish fry, and I needed to use it up. Therefore, I threw it in a baking pan with what I had on hand, and the result was pretty tasty.
What I had on hand, sadly, wasn’t lemons. It was some spices, some butter, some orange juice, and some vinegar. That said, the sweet of the orange juice blended well with the vinegar – I could have probably used more of each, and even some salt. That said, I was almost ready to eat the fish raw, and nearly did, until I remembered to flip it in my sleepy haze. For all that this is a product of a long night, it’s not bad by any stretch, and would probably work with any relatively plain fish – I’ve done the same with flounder before.
Ingredients
1 large chunk ( ~ 3/4 – 1 lb) fish
3 tablespoons butter
A splash of orange juice (under 1/4 cup)
A splash of vinegar (about 3-4 tablespoons)
A sprinkling of dried basil (fresh is better, but I don’t normally have it)
A sprinkling of black pepper
A sprinkling of salt
Instructions
Put the fish in a glass baking dish. Put the ingredients on top of it, carefully spreading out the butter so that it is distributed nicely over the fish.
Next, broil the fish on high heat, rotating it after 5 minutes so that each side of teh fish gets at least five minutes. It should brown a little, and come apart easily.
When it’s done, enjoy with bread, or straight up.
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