averygoodun42 | Fish Tacos

Final post for the night, I promise.

Saute 1/4 head purple cabbage, chopped relatively finely in a couple tablespoons oil. Add cumin (approx 1 T), pepper (three dashes), garlic powder (at least 1 T) and 3 or 4 chopped green onions. Cook till cabbage is starting to soften, adding 1 T lime juice and water as necessary. Add 1 fresh green chili, finely chopped, and a grated carrot or two. Cook a few more minutes. Place fillets of white fish (I used orange roughy) on top of cabbage mix. Coat with desired amount of cumin and garlic powder and salt. Turn over and coat other side. Cover, cook for ten minutes or so until it's all flaky and stuff. Break apart and mix into cabbage with spatula.

Serve in softened corn tortillas with lime quarters.

(How I actually did it:
Chopped cabbage and put in the pan with oil. When it was starting to color the oil, I realized putting an onion in would be a good idea. Looked in cupboard, saw we're out of onions and went to fridge for green onions. By then, the oil was pretty much absorbed, so I added lime juice to prevent burning while I rinsed, chopped and added a couple of the green onions. Sauteed till all the lime juice was absorbed and added a bit of water.

I then got the fish out and placed them on top of the cabbage and covered it all up. Turned around and saw cilantro on the table, unprepared. Rinsed cilantro, chopped it up and put it to the side of the chopping board, deciding that it needed to be added last, anyway. Tuned back to table with chopping board in hand and saw the chilis sitting there, waiting to be prepared.

Swore.

Shoved chopped cilantro to the side of small chopping board and started process of mincing the green chilies. Five minutes later, I added them to the fish mix, making sure to mix them up with the cabbage that was underneath the fish, breaking up the fish as I did so.

Covered the pan again to let it cook and realized that I had meant to add carrot, or thought it might be good. Ducked beside Babe (who was standing, buck naked, in the fridge, looking for string cheese) into the veggie drawer, pulled out a hairy carrot and went about making it presentable. Grated it directly into the pan, stirred the mix, breaking the fish up even more, and covered it up again.

Went to check email and noticed the area above my lip was burning. Realized I must have touched my mouth without washing my hands after chopping the chilis. Oops. I went to the kitchen sink and thoroughly washed my hands and rinsed my lips and chin. Crisis averted, I decided that while there, I might as well prepare the tortillas (checking first to make sure they weren't moldy... they've been in the fridge a looooong time) by putting them on a plate, sprinkling with water, covering with plastic wrap (Snopes it, it's safe) and nuking it for thirty seconds.

While microwave was going, I finally added the cilantro, taking the time to bust up any remaining big chunks of fish. Microwave finishes and I preemptively say dinner is done before checking the tortillas. Oops. They need another fifteen seconds, so Geoff is left there holding the empty plate I handed him.

I remember limes and quickly chop one up. Microwave finishes and voila! Fish tacos.

I fill my plate, leaving Geoff to fill his (while Babe noshes on his cheese) and sit down. Find it's much better with a squirt or two of lime on it.

And generally... yum.)

Could be better, but it was a good quick fix.