Monday, January 03, 2005

tonight's menu

fish - basa basa - (I think that was what it was called) - white flesh, mild flavor - fried with olive oil and a tangerine-shiitake sauce (from a jar)

green beans and carrots fried with the fish

fettucine pasta fried in the pan with a little more sauce after the fish & veggies removed

a salad sharing the plate: roma tomato slices, cherry tomatoes, shredded purple cabbage, red leaf lettuce torn, grated carrot, chunks of cucumber, sprout mix - doused with an Italian vinegarette (from a bottle)

while it was cooking I stood in the kitchen (which was cozier than the rest of the chilly house) and read four pages of Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars: "[W]hat she could sense behind his reserve was some kind of triumph, as if he had won something and she had lost. That Puritan streak in Americans, that sense that sex was wrong and something that men had to trick women into."

then we ate ... I'm getting to enjoy cooking fish, it's simple and quick and easy to clean up and it tastes dern good

nice salad, too

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