Squirrel X's Culinary Miscellany!
swift and simple fish soup
"Make anything with love, and BAM! It's a beautiful meal."
__Emeril Lagasse
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__Japanese proverb
"What I love about cooking is that after a hard day,
there is something comforting about the fact that
if you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing.
It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron
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in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent,
so is the ballet. "
__Julia Child
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__Piero Selvaggio
"'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
__William Shakespeare
"Cooking is like love.
It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
__Harriet Van Horne
Swift And Simple Fish Soup
Ingredients:
1/4 cup olive oil
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 onion, chopped
3 pounds of the fresh fish of your choice, cleaned and cut into pieces
1 and 1/2 quarts water
2 peppercorns
1 bay leaf
a pinch of cayenne
1 lemon, cut into slices
Instructions:
1) Saut� the garlic and onion in hot oil in a dutch oven for ten minutes.
2) Add all the remainin' ingredients except for the lemon slices.
3) Cover and simmer for fifteen to twenty minutes,
or 'til the flakes easily when tested with a fork.
4) Remove the fish from the stock, then remove the skin and bones.
5) Return the fish to the pot and simmer for an additional
five to ten minutes.
6) Remove the peppercorns and the bay leaf.
7) Serve in individual bowls, garnished with lemon slices.
and the best of intentions for whoever wants to try 'em,
but if somethin' goes wrong, don't blame the varmint.*
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