Gourmet Class Fish!

Ahhhh, another great class tonight. No matter how bad work gets, I can always be sure to relax and unwind at cooking class.

We did fish tonight, which included scaling, gutting and filleting a whole fish! My Da would be so happy to see that I cleaned a fish, although he wouldn't have approved of all of the 'fancy' cooking and spicing that I did to it afterwards. He just likes his fish to be fish, no salt, no pepper, just fried fish. Not that there's anything wrong with that!

I actually kind of enjoyed cleaning the fish, although scaling it was a major production...scales were flying everywhere in the classroom...kinda looked like a blizzard! My filets turned out okay...at least I didn't think it looked like an animal chewed them off the bone or anything.

We cooked them 'en papilotte' which is a fancy way of saying wrapped in paper! Throw in some vegetables and seasonings and put in the oven and in a very short period of time you have a verry tender delicious piece of fish...a meal in a bag.

I only did one filet that way, the other one I pan fried on the stove just like we do up at the cottage. I gotta say it tasted pretty good. I think I would definately cook fish again here at home.

I was covered in scales and pretty much smelled like a fish...I saw the old stray tom cat that lives in my alley eyeing me pretty hard when I got out of the car. I hustled into the house as quick as I could! My own cats were less interested than I though they would be...they get more excited about 'hockey hands' than they did about fish hands...go figure.

Only one more class *sigh* I am really going to miss the camaradarie and fun of Gourmet Boot Camp.