Mahi Mahi with Cilantro Pesto ...p52

Were there one recipe that generated unanimous Yums around the dinner table, this is it!  So absolutely delicious, I wanted to make it again the very next night, and, actually, I found one tiny piece of leftover fish in the refrigerator a couple days later....and it was just as delicious as the night it was served.  Make it, make it, make it.  I even used frozen mahi mahi, not fresh, so don't let the fact that you can't find a fish market, stop you!  Hit Krogers or HEB and find the frozen fillets.  And doesn't this cilantro pesto make your mouth water?

 

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Baked Orange Roughy ...p51

I'll tell you what, I don't miss the West Coast "nuts" (okay my friends, you know I'm kidding), but I sure do miss its fish.  You'd think fresh fish would be plentiful here on the gulf coast, but my little town has little to offer in that category without an hour long foray.  I am so jealous of my Alaska family!  Send me some salmon, will ya?

"Orange Roughy" is a strange name for a fish, conjuring up images of a rough textured bully, so I found it interesting Wiki reading that it is the largest member of the "slimehead" family.....  Not quite the same visual.  I also felt bad for eating this poor fish as it can actually live to be 149 years old.  Tricia, with her usual blunt questioning, asked, "now how do they KNOW that?"  Sheez, they've obviously been tagging them for that long, eh?

In all seriousness, this recipe brought oohs and aahs from the family and yet was so simple to make.  I even found the fish - fresh - close to home and very reasonably priced.

 

Delicate and mild, this white fish melts in your mouth.  Creamed spinach, saffron rice and fresh asparagus added a nice variety to the meal. 

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