{"id":961,"date":"2008-08-14T09:31:20","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T16:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=961"},"modified":"2008-08-14T13:56:38","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T20:56:38","slug":"fish-wednesday-sharing-the-garden-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/14\/fish-wednesday-sharing-the-garden-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish Wednesday: Sharing the Garden Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tuna<\/a>In these mild summer evenings, we love to eat dinner outside while hummingbirds do the same at the backyard feeder. We are obsessively trying to photograph the pair of Rufus birds that we think have set up house in a very spiky tree that hangs over the low fence between our yard and the neighbors’. We can hear the little guys cheeping away, their odd little hummingbird conversation spilling out of the branches into the yard before one of the pair swoops up to the feeder.<\/p>\n

They won’t land when I have the grill on, it makes sense that they wouldn’t like the smoke, but they don’t care if we sit at the table and talk about them. As soon as the going back and forth to the kitchen, the slamming of the screen door, the scraping of plates and silverware has stopped and the grill is off, they resume their post.<\/p>\n

I am trying to eat less food and enjoy it more (if that’s possible, I do love to eat). I recently read a piece in Bon Appetit<\/a> on how a food critic eats<\/a> – she recently decided she didn’t need to eat every last thing on her plate. There’s little more enjoyable than eating a well grilled piece of fish in one’s own backyard, but admittedly, I am finding myself a little peckish about an hour after dinner. This won’t do.<\/p>\n

I saut\u00c3\u00a9ed the red onions for a very long time in olive and sesame oil and then added chopped kale and a little water to help cook the greens. The fish I slathered with O’Plum Sesame Sauce<\/a> a gift from recent house guest Mausi<\/a>. Note to travelers and future house guests: Anything food related goes down big here. It probably would where you’re going, too. The sauce left a nice sweet glaze on the fish with just a little of that burnt sugar taste – good stuff on the meaty tuna steak.<\/p>\n

Here are a few things I have learned from this summer of grilling.<\/p>\n

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  1. Coat the grill with a nice light coat of oil to keep your food from sticking.<\/li>\n
  2. Grill the fish on a very hot grill on each side for a minute or two, then turn the heat down, close the lid, and walk away.<\/li>\n
  3. If you must peak, baste while doing so.<\/li>\n
  4. The fish is done when the fat starts to set up on the outside.<\/li>\n
  5. It takes about 10 minutes to cook fish. 5 minutes more for a very thick cut.<\/li>\n
  6. If you make a lot of weird noises, the hummingbird will spook and fly off.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Eat your fish. It refines your powers of observation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In these mild summer evenings, we love to eat dinner outside while hummingbirds do the same at the backyard feeder. We are obsessively trying to photograph the pair of Rufus birds that we think have set up house in a very spiky tree that hangs over the low fence between our yard and the neighbors’. … <\/p>\n


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