Cook's Challenge!

Okay, I'll need to admit defeat here, likely due to that I've never found a way to make any type of fish taste good enough for Andrea or I. I thought and thought, but no dice (no....rolling them won't do me any good either....not enough ranks in the cooking skill yet). *sigh* I guess that I'll be stuck with Gordman's a little while longer if I want to keep fish in my diet. No, I don't live in the recall states, so I'm good there.

I haven't got anything yet either. I hate smoked fish.

You know, I can't eat Salmon unless it is smoked. All I can think of at the moment would be to break up the fish in chunks, and add it into a rice dish with the other ingredients plus extras; but lost on the buttermilk... which I can't stand alone.

Well - I don't like smoked fish and I don't particularly care for string beans...
But I guess you could cook the rice and mix it with the fish, torn/cut into bite-sized pieces (if you like fish), cook the beans with the tarragon, salt and pepper added to both beans and rice mixture, serve them together.

Now use the buttermilk to mix up some some muffins with blueberries in them (use muffin mix, lol - something I would not do for real...) and serve them with a bracing cup of tea. I would offer whipped cream with the muffins for those who want it!

I would let you all share the rice with fish and beans, then have a dessert party with anyone who wants to come!

Ha, what timing Cristina.. 10:21am ..... ;-)

Nice, Cristina.

I love cooking with buttermilk, John, but I would never drink it!

thanks Shannon

I don't really like fish

Smoked Salmon and Wild Rice with Buttermilk-Tarragon Beans

extras: cream cheese, fresh garlic, lemon juice

Cook rice according to package. While hot stir in tarragon, chunked fish, lemon juice, garlic and cream cheese.

Simmer snipped beans in buttermilk and tarragon. Serve with rice dish.

I've never had a yellow green bean. Ya'll work with the fish and I'll ponder this yellow bean.

Yellow beans are great!

Shannon that recipie sounds good ;-)

I'd mix the smoked salmon with some cream cheese, add bagels or crackers and serve as an appetizer. The wild rice and yellow green beans would be cooked with another meat that they'd eat around here.

This one is tough!!!

Extras:

Hard-boiled eggs
Green peas (fresh or frozen, not canned)
Diced tomatoes

Brown-rice Kedgeree and Indian-Style Beans

Prepare brown rice according to package directions and keep warm.

Poach the smoked haddock (fish of choice) in the buttermilk, seasoned with a little tarragon and some ground pepper, until tender. Break up the poached fish into small pieces.

Steam green peas.

In a large bowl, combine rice, poached fish, and green peas. Stir to combine well and turn out onto serving platter. Garnish with slices of hard-boiled egg. Dust with ground (cayenne) pepper.

Trim yellow string beans and cut into short, even lengths. Parboil. Bring a mixture of diced tomatoes, and cayenne pepper to a simmer in a large saucepan. Add beans, chopped tarragon, about 1 cup water and 1/2 - 1 tsp. salt. Boil, reduce back to a simmer and cook until beans are tender. Turn heat up to high and cook until most of the liquid evaporates, leaving beans in a thick, tangy, spicy tomato sauce.

Serve as an accompaniment to the kedgeree.

Amazing, Jack!

I would actually try that, and I am not fond of smoked fish.

not much for fish but I like reading what everyone else would do

i like katie's salmon and cream cheese on a bagel idea.

stumped

I have no idea what to do with this combination of flavors and ingredients! Yikes.