Recipe of the Week - Fish Tacos

Once a week, DH does a cooking segment for his noon newscast. He works with the chef at a local hotel, who comes up with the dish and does the actual cooking. Last week, the dish was Fish Tacos and he enjoyed them so much he wanted me to make them at home. Since Mexican food is one of my favorites, I was happy to oblige!

I didn't really have a recipe, just my memory of how they did it on the show.

These are my not-very-exact directions:

Ingredients
Frozen Fish Patties - you need 1 per taco (We used Gorton's beer battered version)
Soft Corn Tortillas - the small taco-sized ones, not the big burrito-sized ones - you need 1 per taco.
Butter
Ranch Dressing
Sour Cream
Salsa
Shredded Cheese (we used Sargento 4-cheese Mexican shredded blend)
Shredded Cabbage

Directions
Prepare fish according to package directions. If you have a deep fryer, you can use that. We don't, so I baked them in the oven and it tasted fine. While the fish is baking, butter each side of the tortillas and fry them in a frying pan to brown them a bit. You still want them to be soft. Mix ranch dressing and sour cream to taste and set aside. When the fish is done, assemble the tacos - put one piece of fish on each tortilla, and top with the sour cream mixture, salsa, cheese and cabbage.

Here's a picture of the taco being assembled. I had forgotten the cheese. We didn't use the cabbage b/c on the show, DH said he didn't really like cabbage so I didn't buy any. He told me as we were making them that he thought the cabbage was actually good on the tacos. He could have mentioned that while we were at the grocery store! Well, there's always next time!

Here are my finished tacos with a side of chips and salsa mixed with the leftover sour cream/ranch mixture.

Savory Peach Chicken

A couple of weeks ago, I had to do some work on a Saturday and while I did I had the Food Network on in the background. One of the shows I listened to was a new one "Healthy Appetite with Elie Kreiger." (I may have spelled that wrong.) Anyway, she made chicken with peach sauce. I thought it sounded yummy, so I printed the recipe to show DH. He agreed it sounded good, so I added it to the menu for the week.

It even had an ingredient I wasn't familiar with - Rice Vinegar. Fortuneately, we easily found it at the grocery store .

It called for frozen peaches, but I couldn't find those so I used canned.

Here's a picture of the finished product. I served it over pasta because that was all we had. I wanted to do couscous, but I didn't realize we were out. It had kind of an Asian flair, so rice noodles might be good, too. I'll definitely be making it again, so I'll have to experiment!

The recipe can be found here:

Savory Peach Chicken