Late Sunday Night Dinner

  I'm not a fish person. I love to eat it, but rarely cook it. I have a new favorite. Flaky, soft, buttery striped sea bass. I was so scared to cook this for the first time as it was a bit pricey and again, I am not a fish person. But, it came out great! We had a fresh salad (which I ate most of before snapping the picture-thus why there is only one sunny gold tomato on it) and dill potatoes as sides. So good, and once again, simple and EASY. I'll even tell you the order in which I did things. I love this meal because when one thing was just cooking and not needing attention, I could do something else and the timing was perfect.... While bringing salted water to a boil for the potatoes, I washed and diced five red potatoes (I wanted left-overs) and started getting the salad ingredients ready. When the water came to a rolling boil, I put the potatoes in and let them cook, covered. This gave me about 12 minutes. During this time, I plated the salad which consisted of spring mix and a combo of sunny gold cherry tomatoes and red grape tomatoes. I dressed it with fresh black pepper, sea salt, a squeeze of lemon and a drizzle of olive oil. Next, i put the skillet on a med-high burner and rinsed off my striped bass. When the pan was nice and hot I put in about a TBSP of olive oil, maybe a just a little bit more. When that was hot, I put in a very small pat of butter and put the fish in skin side down. I then seasoned the fish only with lemon and fresh black pepper. While it was cooking I basted it with some of the cooking liquid to seal in it's moisture then added some fresh ground sea salt. After about 7 minutes (it was really thick), I flipped it and cooked it for 2 to 3 minutes on the other side. During the 7 minutes on the first side, I drained the potatoes and threw them back in the pot with a drizzle of olive oil, a little butter, a healthy dose of dried dill, and salt and pepper. I put the lid on and shook them up and left them on the stove (burner off). When the fish was done, the salad was ready and the potatoes were still hot. I just put everything on a plate, and voila! A perfect meal in under a 30 minutes.

  I really need to start remembering to take pictures before I eat half of it. :p