After being stuck eating out at restaurants and eating on the cruise for 10 days, I was ready to get back into the kitchen and start cooking again. Do not get me wrong, it was nice to have a break from cooking, but nothing taste better than a home cook meal.
It is day 2 back from our cruise and I need to continue eating lighter meals, especially for dinner. Only grocery shopping we did when we came back was just for some vegetables.
I was craving fish for dinner and the only fish we had was tilapia. I wanted to do something creative with the tilapia instead of just cooking it as is. So I made fishcakes for dinner tonight. The ingredients in the fishcakes were mushrooms, onion, garlic, onion and garlic powder, dried basil, and breadcrumbs and an egg for the binders. I dredged it in flour and stuck in the the freezer to hold its shape before I pan fried it.
For the side, I did not want to have a salad since we had a salad last night for dinner. Tonight's veggie of choice was peas, but to just plate peas on a plate is just boring so I turned it into a pea puree with what I had. I pureed the peas with garlic, olive oil and sour cream.
For additional garnishes and colors, I made a quick cheese crisp and fried an egg.
I have had withdrawals from cooking and plating since I have been on vacation. So I wanted to have some fun with my plating. I was very indecisive on how I wanted to plate my dinner tonight so I plated it two different ways. I grabbed the roasted tomato sardine dressing I made last night for my salad and used that to add some flavor and color to my plating. The pea puree was the difficult part on how I wanted it to look on the plate.
Please let me know which one you prefer...the one with the pea puree brushed on or the one with it spread.
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