May 14, 2013 Dinner – Fish Stew with Beans and Tortillas

May 14, 2013 Dinner – Fish Stew with Beans and Tortillas

I have been working a lot lately and trying to read my book club book for this Month,The Poisonwood Bible, that is over 600 pages.  I am on page 274, so there is hope and time to catch up on meal descriptions.

Tonight’s meal started with an effort to use up PPI ingredients.  I thawed out a Corvina filet and when Suzette came home, she brought a plastic container filled with a new, wonderful soup; Rosemary and I tasted it but could not guess its main ingredient.  Cream of Radish Soup Suzette shouted.  A new soup cooked by the new sous chef at the Bistro.  Bravo for Suzette.

While Rosemary and I were finishing our project, Suzette picked a handful of radishes and turnips from the garden.  When Rosemary left I chopped the green tops off the radishes and turnips and chopped about 2 Tbsp. of leeks and their green tops and a tomato. Suzette decided to make a fish stew with the radish soup, the greens, the tomato, the leeks, and the corvina.  We emptied the fridge of several old and unpromising PPI, since we are leaving this weekend for Chicago and then New York and Pennsylvania for a week and two weekends.  We found a container of the delicious beans we made for Willy’s going away party a month ago and decided to heat them into refried beans to eat with the fish stew.

If you have not seen Willy’s blog he is posting during his trip, called Wandering, you should.  My brother, Billy, who is a professional writer called the other day to say how impressed he was with Willy’s writing ability. Maybe we have another Simon writer.

I fetched three bottles of beer from the basement and Suzette wrapped a handful of small tortillas in a wet dish towel and put them into the microwave.  When she had sautéed all the ingredients and the beans were heated in a skillet, she said to start the tortillas.  After another three minutes everything was ready and Suzette ladled fish stew and beans on a plate and laid a couple of tortillas on the plate and we ate fish stew tacos with beans and beer, for a pretty wonderful dinner.

 

Bon Appétit