quick and easy meals for 1 or 2

tempura battered fish and stuff

We were invited over to Butch and Janie's the other nightand This is what they put together for us.

Butch had bought some sea bass fillets and cut them lenthwise then across. He has some tempura batter mix. Added ice cold water and whipped it up. Put all the fillets in it and dropped them one at a time into some hot fat. Butch has a thermometer for this and went for 375 for the right temp for this dish. When they were crispy he took 'em out and laid them on a plate lined with paper towels to drain and keep warm. Served them with some malt vinegar and tarter sauce. Janie had made a great Zucchini dish. She fried up some thick onion slices until they were just translucent ans scooted them over to the side of the pan then she put zucchini that she had cut the ends off and cut in half lengthwise in the pan. Turned them over once after they got brown, sprinkled some garlic powder, mixed the onions back in. She was supposed to add a little water at this point, but when she wasn't looking I put in some wine and told her I took care of the "water". Well, I used some red wine and she caught on. I guess I already had a little of the wine and didn't think I'd get caught. French fries, a loaf of french bread heated in the oven and of course we continued with the wine. It was great!!!