{"id":13503,"date":"2017-07-23T01:04:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T01:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=13503"},"modified":"2017-07-23T01:04:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T01:04:15","slug":"garlicchilispring-shallot-basted-tilefish-zest-okra-chard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=13503","title":{"rendered":"garlic\/chili\/spring shallot-basted tilefish, zest; okra; chard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s not really much “like lobster”, as some would have it, but it is<\/em>\u00a0a sweet fish, in more than one sense.<\/p>\n

I’ve written a bit about\u00a0tilefish<\/a>\u00a0in an earlier post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s difficult to imagine that it\u00a0was once included within that hoary commercial seafood classification, ‘trash fish’, along with, among others species I would now consider delicacies, like\u00a0sea robin, dogfish, and even redfish, hake, and porgy.<\/p>\n

These 2 fillets were\u00a0my first choice at the fishmongers’ on Friday.<\/p>\n

I was reluctant to turn on\u00a0the oven on a very warm night, and I didn’t want to use any of the preparations that are my usual alternatives to roasting. I looked around on line and found this simple and very delicious recipe<\/a>, making only a few alterations.<\/p>\n

The polenta included in the photograph accompanying the recipe would have been very nice, but I had some vegetables to bring out\u00a0last night.<\/p>\n

They were: some\u00a0very deep green and very fresh\u00a0okra, the very last little basket at the stand where I found\u00a0it\u00a0(also, the only okra I saw that day and the only okra I’ve seen so far this year); and a small amount of beautiful rainbow chard that I had washed and rinsed 2 days earlier, before realizing I had more than enough for that night’s meal.<\/p>\n

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I also had some slightly eccentric additions I wanted to add\u00a0to the tilefish: the last of the garlic flowers I had enjoyed scattering on top of so many things for at least a whole week; and a package of near-micro\u00a0nasturtium<\/a> leaves I had picked up that day.<\/p>\n