quick and easy meals for 1 or 2


Baked whole fish

It’s easy and it’s good


Salt and black pepper
2 (1 to 1 1/2 pound) whole fish, sea bream or sea bass, or red snapper or even catfish scaled and gutted, head and tail intact
2 stalks celery, sliced thin, leaves saved back
1 small bunch each parsley, thyme, and oregano (or any other mix of herbs), about a TBSP each of dried will work
4 tablespoons olive oil
1 lemon, sliced thin
1 orange, sliced thin
1/2 cup white wine
Directions
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
Season the fish, inside and out, with salt and pepper. Stuff the celery leaves and herbs inside the cavity of the fish. Pour 4 tablespoons of the olive oil on the cookie sheet and cover with the celery, lemon, and orange slices, saving 2 slices each of the fruit. Place the fish on top of the celery and sliced fruit and place the remaining slices of fruit on top of the fish. Pour the remaining olive oil and white wine over the fish. Put it in oven and cook for 20 minutes.

We usually do this with french fries and salad aaannndd the rest of that white wine!!!!

quick and easy meals for 1 or 2

It's Sunday and I don't know what you are going to do for dinner tonight, but this is what Gammy and I are doing.

I'm going to go by the mercado (market) and get a fresh chicken and have the lady cut it into 8 pieces. Then by the produce stands and get some ears of corn, sweet potatoes,plum tomatoes, onions, and a little cilantro. Then over to the dairy/cheese stands and get some queso (cheese). They have a Mexican variety of feta that we like better actually.

In a big zip loc I'm putting :

a half cup olive oil
a half cup of red wine
a couple of squirts of balsamic vinegar
juice from a lime
about a Tbsp. of garlic powder
about a Tbsp. of black pepper

Zip the bag and mix it all up by doing a few somersaults to it. Put in the chicken, squeeze out all the air that you can and zip it shut. Put it in the fridge laying flat so all the pieces are getting the marinade treatment for about an hour or 2.

Make a salad with the tomatoes, onions, a little cilantro chopped up fine and the cheese. Toss it up and serve it with your favorite dressing.

When it's chicken time have the grill heated up and put the pieces on. Spill a little of the marinade on the pieces. Zip up the bag and throw it away. Put the cleaned ears of corn on the grill. watch them they will want to cook kinda fast. When they start to get some brown spots put them on the side of the grill' til the chicken is done.

While the chicken is cooking zap the sweet potatoes in the micro wave until they are soft. Serve them with a slit lengthwise and some butter in them.

We're going to have the rest of that red wine and some of pop pop's homemade bread!!!