Sometimes you just have to buy something wonderful that just ain't cheap. Last week, at our house, it was fresh swordfish cooked up with three pepper butter. The swordfish was lurking there in the Whole Foods Fish counter, looking to tasty, so meaty, all the while screaming "buy me! buy me!" and so I did. $25.00 worth! Eeek! An issue of my eyes being bigger than our combined stomachs.
So I cooked it up, and served it forth and it was truly delicious. We had baked tomatoes and a bit of rice from the bowels of the freezer. the sauce was toothsome, and there were two pieces of fish left, enough for a dinner of fish tacos the following night.
I made a salsa from fresh tomatoes, onion, garlic and cilantro, and a "crema" of sour cream, garlic and Mexican seasonings. Yum! Had no cabbage but some past-prime iceberg, sliced fine, worked just as well. We made two meals from the sword fish and I didn't feel nearly so guilty.
This morning when I started to make blueberry muffins to take to a writing event with brunch, there were no frozen blueberries and no buttermilk. I substituted mixed berry yogurt for the buttermilk, and frozen mixed berries for the blueberries and the result was moist and tasty and the extras came home to the freezer. I've no idea what a dozen muffins would cost if one bought them, but surely more than that half hour of baking prep, probably less. In the early a.m. (or even not-so-early a.m. I am not too swift.
Apropos the three pepper butter. You can buy black, green and red peppercorns in a grinder for $2.98, and it's not a bad deal. Sometimes it is good to survey the supermarket spice shelves. And now to put dinner on the table, a dinner I scrounged from today's brunch when no one wanted to carry her food offering home. Someone even provided sealable bags for the leftovers. Now that was a thoughtful gesture.
Onward,
The Cheese Parer
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