More Mixing Up of Themes

For “Sweetheart Sunday” this week, I’d asked the Patriarch to pick up whatever fish looked fresh. He snagged some Red Snapper, and I looked through “Eat Your Books” for a recipe that looked good and featured stuff in our fridge. Oddly enough, that was a dish from Marcella's Italian Kitchen . Odd because “Marcella Mondays” have been “Patricia Wells Mondays” so far! This dish is called Filetti di Pesce al Vino Rosso (fish fillets in red wine). It was a bit different in technique; several things I’d never done.

Boiled little whole onions, then browned them in butter and olive oil:




Threw in diced carrots and celery:

 

. . . and cooked covered until tender and browned. Fish was dredged in flour (used coconut flour to make paleo-friendly) and browned:




The vegetables were returned to the pan, wine was added and reduced by half:




Then the fish were returned to the pan and cooked through.

This made a thoroughly non-photogenic dish, sorry!




But very delicious. The fish was perfectly cooked through but tender, and as Marcella says in her note about this dish, “enveloped by the fine, fragrant vegetable bouquet”. Some sort of salad on the side depending on the season, and you’ve a perfect fish dinner.