April 5, 2015 Easter Brunch Dinner Fish and Chips, sort of

April 5, 2015 Easter Brunch    Dinner  Fish and Chips, sort of

We had our now traditional Easter Brunch: a boiled Dungeness Crab (Costco Fish Fiesta $5.99/lb.) with champagne and tartare/migonette sauce.  I made the sauce with pickled onions (made for us by Rosemary) and added 1/3 cup mayonnaise, 1 tsp of horseradish, juice of about ¼ of a lemon, and 2 Tbsp. of sweet pickle relish.

We opened a bottle of Argyle Brut champagne.

We actually made a fried rice dish this year to go with the crab using PPI rice, asparagus tips, ginger and onion and garlic with Suzette’s sauce she uses for garlic eggplant from “Mastering the Art of Chinese Cooking”, which includes some oyster sauce, soy sauce Chinese cooking wine and Aji Mirin this time.

She fried an egg into an egg pancake and cut it into pieces and put the pieces of egg into the fried rice also.

We took everything out to the garden and enjoyed our newly cleaned garden and the warm sunlight.

For dinner we decided to use the piece of halibut Suzette bought yesterday at Costco for $9.99/lb. to cook fish and chips.  Instead of frying potatoes, we decided to fry the PPI roasted potatoes from Friday night’s dinner.  Suzette used a recipe for fish and chips that we liked very much from the 

“Betty Crocker Cookbook”.  Here it is:

I went to the garden and picked a handful of fresh chard and Suzette mixed that into the potatoes that she sautéed them in the olive oil with the potatoes, mint and garlic.

We drank Leese-Fitch Sauvignon Blanc, which was too dry and acidic for the dish.  We would have been better off with beer.

Bon Appétit