{"id":695,"date":"2007-08-22T18:45:50","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T01:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=695"},"modified":"2007-08-22T19:00:07","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T02:00:07","slug":"fish-wednesday-cod-master-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/22\/fish-wednesday-cod-master-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish Wednesday: Cod Master Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s the thing about Fish Wednesday. It’s not just a meal. There’s cleaning and shopping and reading and planning. There’s pondering guests and sides and what goes on the table with the fish. There’s messing with the camera and wondering if it’s going to work. And there’s eating, most times, a fine meal. Sure, there’s the occasional failure, it’s okay, it happens to everyone. But there’s a fine meditation in preparing and then sitting down to a good meal, especially if you are dining alone. It’s nice to have company fawning over the food, but you know and I know that when a meal is good, you feel it in your mouth and your belly and you don’t really need the kudos from your friends at the table.<\/p>\n

Frustrated by last week’s cod failure, I was determined to get the better of my finny adversary. I was equally committed to eating my way out of fish despair, so in addition to buying cod<\/a>, I picked up a small package of white prawns. They were there as a consolation prize, should the cod again go wrong. I also did a little homework and turned up a recipe for a Brazilian style salmon stew.<\/p>\n

Any eater of Pacific Northwest salmon knows you’re wasting it by putting it in stew, but I liked the idea of the recipe. The original is here<\/a> – I modified it slightly to make it with two kinds of seafood and to simplify the assembly.<\/p>\n

Here are the ingredients:<\/p>\n