quick and easy meals for 1 or 2

Tilapia all spruced up

This is a great way to do Tilapia. It’s easy and good. Don’t skip the anchovies they help make it.


2 tablespoons butter
good olive oil
2 anchovy fillets, minced
1 large garlic clove minced
about a Tbsp. orange juice
1 Tbsp.. chopped fresh basil leaves or ½ Tbsp. dried
1 lemon zested
½ orange zested
2-4 tilapia fillets
Salt and pepper
A splash of white wine


Cook the butter, wine and 1 tablespoon olive oil in a heavy medium saucepan over low to medium heat just until the butter is melted, stirring frequently. Add the anchovies and stir until the anchovies dissolve, about 2 minutes. Add the garlic and cook just until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Remove from the heat. Stir in the orange juice, basil, and lemon and orange zests. Season the sauce, to taste, with salt.

Sprinkle the fish with salt and pepper and brush both sides of the fish with olive oil. Fry the fish until just opaque in center, about 3 minutes per side. Transfer fish to platter. Drizzle the sauce over and around the fish and


SERVE IT UP!! With whatever carbs and veggies you want, crusty bread and the rest of that white wine!!