Resolution to Recipe - Baked Cod

  So, here I am tackling a resolution! Wooheee! 

I like to eat fish... When I go out to eat at a nice restaurant, I tend to order fish.  There is just something about a fresh, perfectly cooked fish dish that gets me excited.  It is light and delicious, flakey, buttery, crispy, mmmm, mmmm, mmmmm PLUS it has omega-3s.... but now to get back on track - I recently have been buying these frozen cod fillets from Trader Joes and have been making this baked cod dish fairly frequently.  It is an easy recipe to follow, does not take long to prepare, and comes out super yummy.  My 16 month old enjoys it.
(adapted from here: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/228319/perfect-ten-baked-cod/)








INGREDIENTS:

3 Tablespoons Butter
1/4 cup crackers, crushed
1/4 cup breadcrumbs
1 Tablespoon Grated Parmesan Cheese
1 pound cod fillets
1 Lemon, juiced
1/4 cup white wine
1 Tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
1 Tablespoon chopped chives



1. Preheat oven to 400 Degrees F


 

2. Rinse your fish with cool water and blot with a paper towel.

3. If you wish, cut your fillets into smaller pieces.  I typically cut mine in half. 

   4. Squeeze half of your lemon over the fish fillets and put to the side.

5. Melt 2 Tablespoons of Butter

6. Crush your crackers, sometimes I put them in a ziplock and crush, but sometimes I use my (clean) bare hands (as pictured). 

My daughter loves these crackers.

 

7. Add in breadcrumbs.

8. Now the Parmesan.

9. Next stir in the melted butter.

10. The remaining 1 tablespoon of butter goes in a baking dish and into the preheated over for 3 minutes to melt.

11. Chop your parsley in the meantime.
12. Then coat both sides of your fish in the melted butter in the baking dish and add half of your parsley.

13. Bake your cod in the preheated oven for ten minutes and remove.

14.Top with lemon juice, wine, and cracker mixture.

15. And return to the oven to bake until fish is opaque and flakes easily with a fork, about 10 more minutes.

16. Squeeze the remaining lemon over and garnish with chopped chives and remaining parsley.

Enjoy!

The Holidays

Happy New Year to you all! I can honestly say that I am looking forward to what  2016 has in store for me.  I am happy to be done with 2015 and to be moving forward.  It's been a while since I have really truly felt that way....I hope that everyone can look forward to the year ahead and feel hopeful that it will be better than the year before. 

I am always slow to warm to the holiday season.  It's such an emotional time, you experience joy and laughter, tears of happiness and of sadness, melancholy, anxiety, road rage, depression, love and warmth, gratefulness, merriness, anger, peace, and chaos. You miss those far, and enjoy those near. It's the bi-polar time of year.  You work hard to play hard. But once I let the holidays in, I find it very difficult to let them go.  

 

 

 

 

 

This year, I started to take down Christmas right after New Years.  This is quick for me.  I usually hold on for as long as I can.  I kind of love the decorations around the house and of course the Christmas Tree.  Our Christmas tree this year was actually my favorite yet, but regardless of that I still was very ready for the "fresh start".  Ready to say goodbye to the Holiday Season and move forward with 2016 as I said at the beginning of this post. 

 

Don't get me wrong, the holidays were great, and having a little babe really just makes you get into the holiday spirit and want to embrace every aspect.  I took quite a few photos of us enjoying things holiday and we had lots of quality family time. It was great. A nice break from the usual grind. I love being a mom, I love my home, I love our family. It was so nice to be able to spend time and enjoy them all.  We did a lot of things as a family, because that is what we are now...

 

 

 

 

 

 

As 2016 opened, I definitely felt a little post holiday blues and  have been thinking about resolutions a lot, another thing I don't typically embrace, but since I am really looking forward to 2016 being an even better year, I think it is always best to look inward when seeking improvement.   We are kind of the controllers of our own destinies, right?  So below is a list of "resolutions" for 2016-- things I would like to be mindful of and focus on:

 

Be Happier

Be Softer

Communicate Better

Focus on health and fitness and my physical self

Reconnect with friends

Be less of a "phone-head"

Take more photos

 

and specifically for my blog, I would like to post more, broaden my horizons - perhaps share a recipe with photos. 

 

Have you been thinking about resolutions?  It's always a good thing to seek self improvement, to look inward, reflect.  Are you portraying the person you want to?  I think about how others view me a lot.  It's so weird to me how you can never see yourself through the eyes of someone else.  Isn't it?  I am going to end this on that mystical note.  Happy New Year to you all! I send you all the warmest wishes for 2016! Cheers!