Dr Pepper Sole

This is something I came up with when I was in university.  I found it delicious and was a fairly regular staple of my diet then.  I don't cook it a lot now, because I'm trying to cut down on the amount of soft drinks I consume, for health reasons and such.

You want a frying pan with high sides or a wok for this one.  I learned to do this and stir-fries using water instead of oil, even in coated pans.   The trick is to add the water with the ingredients. 

So heat up your pan until water drops sizzle on it.

Take defrosted sole and fry it for a bit with a little butter/margarine and lemon juice. 

Add Dr. Pepper, enough so that the sole is covered.  Reduce heat to a quater of full heat. 

Let simmer, stirring every once in a while, until Dr. Pepper has almost disappeared. 

Turn off stove, remove from heat, let sole cool a little, and then enjoy!

I usually eat this with rice and some microwaved frozen veggies. 

Acadian Fish Dinner - short cut method

Gasp! I'm posting a recipe that isn't a slow cooker recipe!! Although, I'm pretty sure that this can be modified to be a slow cooker recipe. I did this last night.

Acadian Fish Dinner - Becker Short Cut Method

I should have probably set out the fish to defrost sooner, instead of at 12pm. Their frozen-ness added more moisture to the casserole, which was good since we ended up leaving it in a little too long....

But at 12pm-ish, I set out some sole fillets to defrost. Not the skinny fillets either, but the thick ones from M&M's meat shop (we don't believe in getting all of our groceries in one store; some places have better vegetables, one place has better bread, etc).

At 3:00pm, I preheated the oven to 350º.

In a microwaveable casserole dish, I melt 2 Tbsp of butter/margarine.
Then I added 1 Tbsp of flour and stirred to coat well. Heated in microwave for 2 minutes.
added 3/4 cups of milk and 1 tsp of salt. Microwaved for 1 minute.

Added 1 pressed garlic clove, 2 Tbsp of dried onion, 3 cups of thinly slice potatoes and 1 1/2 cups of thinly sliced carrots.

Covered dish and cooked in oven for 30 minutes.
Since there was not a lot of liquid, I kept the lid on and cooked for another 30 minutes.
Then I lay the fish on top and cooked until the fish was done. If the fish had been fully defrosted, I would have covered with 1 Tbsp of oil.

It was pretty good. I think that the fish should have been in with the sauce, as to get some of the flavour, but it was still pretty good.

Blueberry Sole

This is kind of reposted from the forum entry I made on AWA.

Warning: Sole turns purple. It looks a little weird.

Blueberry Sole.

Heat up pan on stove until water crackles and dances.
With a small amount of butter/margarine, coat pan.
Place frozen sole fillets (boneless, skinless) into pan.

Add a dash of lime juice and a dash of lemon juice.
Add a handful of fresh blueberries.

Add a dash each of paprika, coriander powder and oregano.
lightly drizzle with honey garlic sauce.

Sprinkle lightly with cinnamon and sugar.

Let cook, turning fish over to cook on both sides.

YUM!

I usually have rice cook before I start up the fish, or else during the weekend, make this HUGE batch of rice to have throughout the week. When I was living at school, I made a sticky-ish oven-steamed rice, and pressed it into half-cup balls, so all I had to do was grab 1 ball for each person I was cooking for.

The outcome: it was really really good!