Contributed by Lynn
They will talk about this recipe again on Christmas Eve, so I will give you the recipe in case you want to try it.
I cook few things well or more truthfully I cook few things and none of them well. I can boil things and make them so tasteless you would believe you are eating in London.
Jake and the girls (we are his polys) have this custom of not eating meat on Christmas Eve. They prepare a bunch of nice seafood things including a paella without any meat. Now they always prepare everything but my first Christmas with the group, the two girls went to a party for an hour or so. They had everything set up for us to eat about 10:30. I had to set the table and make some fish.
When I got home, I was in a venturesome mood. (False courage brought on by some Blue Nun.) Jake asked if he should make the fish. I said no, but asked how to make it. He said it was just a fish shake and added use one egg and the seasoned bread crumbs.
I got out the blender and used my best judgment. The fish got real watery in the blender and the egg didn't help much. I threw in about a cup or so of bread crumbs, the kind that smell garlicy and have little green pieces in them.
It occurred to me that perhaps it was like a stuffing and needed to be cooked or baked or something. Cleverly I asked Jake if I should bake it or fry. He said either way. I tasted it raw and it wasn't that good, the bread crumbs felt sandy. I added a punch of peper and just a pinch of salt. I popped in anouther egg and it smoothed out okay but now was very limp, like oozy. Thats when I added the canned tuna.
I kind of meat-loafed the whole thing into a pan. A little dry parsley and some peprika were then put on. More for decoration than anything else. I slipped in under the broiler just as the girls returned and by the time the got to the kitchen, it had set up fairly nice.
I had had the foresight to put foil in the pan so I was able to get it to the plate. Then I ripped away most of the foil and neatened it up a bit. Some lettuce and it was ready.
Then they started in about bread crumbs in plastic bags and stuff like that. I said 'Oh, I though you wanted Norwegian Fish Shake.' I had some and it wasn't really that bad. The tuna saved it, I am sure.
Love,
Lynn
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