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So easy, so delicious, so healthy! Fish cooked in a foil packet means a juicy, flavorful, healthy meal with very little cleanup and little to no butter or oil required. Winning! (Did I just write that? For the record, there are few people I can say I hate, and Charlie Sheen is one of them. What a jerk.)

Anyway, back to the good stuff. I have been resisting tomatoes all winter. They are all grown so far away or are just not very good in the winter that I don’t bother. But I have been craving summery recipes in the worst way, so I decided to take the leap and buy a box of cherry tomatoes over the weekend.

cherry tomato

I built the rest of the dish around them. A beautiful filet of haddock from my favorite little local, Dorchester Market, played the part of the healthy protein. I simply laid it in the foil and surrounded it by juicy tomatoes.

fish in a packet

Then I topped it with three cloves of garlic, cut into thin slices. Well, as thin as my patience allowed. To that, I added a drizzle of blood orange olive oil. You could leave this out and just let the fish steam in its own juices, but I am obsessed with blood orange olive oil, and I knew it would make this dish super fancy. Smile

fish in a packet

I topped the fish with slices of lemon and some black pepper, wrapped up the foil tightly, and popped it in the oven at 400 for 17 minutes.

fish cooked in a foil packet

I should mention that I cooked the fish from frozen. I bought it fresh, but when I realized we wouldn’t have time to eat it for days, I put it in the freezer. It was very thin, so the cooking time was perfect. Discovering the ability to cook fish from frozen and still end up with something so fresh is a miracle.

I served this dish with a great veggie side, which I will share in tomorrow’s post. It was a meal that not just tasted really great, but it also felt really good. Now if we could just get some spring weather, and I am talking 60 degrees or higher.

I forgot to announce the winner of the Starbucks giveaway. . . congratulations, Taryn! Please email me with your address so I can send your coffee.

Tags: blood orange olive oil, fish, garlic, haddock, healthy recipe, lemons, recipe, vegetables

Blogger inspiration strikes again! After reading Michelle’s post for sticky chicken thighs, I had the combination of brown sugar and habanero peppers stuck in my head. Last night when I wanted to make something really fantastic, I pulled up Michelle’s post and used what I had to whip up an amazing meal.

habanero peppers

chicken broth

Ingredients:

6 boneless, skinless chicken thighs – I actually wanted them bone in, but I grabbed these in a hurry and didn’t realize until I got home.

3 habaneros, finely chopped

1/4 cup chicken stock

4 tablespoons

splash white vinegar

3/4 cup dark brown sugar

2 heaping teaspoons of grated ginger

chicken thighs

Cooking up the chicken was as easy as mixing all of the sauce ingredients and pouring them over the chicken. I cooked at 375 for about 30 minutes, checked and then increased the heat to 420 for the last 5 minutes. Apparently I put in way too much liquid, because where I hoped it would boil down into a nice sticky sauce, the end result was liquid-y. But so incredibly flavorful!

spicy sweet chicken

grated ginger

While the chicken was cooking, I zested and juiced two meyer lemons. There were bags of meyer lemons at Shaw’s, and they said “Buy me”, so I did.

meyer lemons

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I washed and steamed up an entire bag of spinach. It amazes me how spinach cooks down to just about nothing. We easily polished off one bag ourselves.

spinach

Once the spinach was cooked, I added in the lemon zest and juice, plus a drizzle of blood orange olive oil.

chicken and spinach

I plated the chicken and spinach up with some of the sauce from the chicken, and then dove in. My husband couldn’t stop talking about how awesome the chicken was, and luckily there were a few pieces for me to send with him for lunch, along with salad. I love leftovers for his lunch; for some reason coming up with lunches totally stumps me. And since he is at his office for up to 13 hours a day, I kind of like it to be something more than a sandwich.

On another note, while I loved this dinner, I am ready to fling open the windows and to eat raw salads and other summery meals. I am tired of big red wines and slow cooked dishes. I just want to eat a giant caprese salad with fresh local tomatoes.

It looks like that is going to have to wait.

If you had to pick a favorite ingredient right now, what would it be? Mine is definitely ginger.

Tags: blood orange olive oil, chicken, cooking, Food, ginger, health, healthy recipes, meyer lemon, recipe, spinach

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