Halibut Puttanesca

This week has been a little busy...but let's get real, every week is busy. Being busy doesn't mean you can't eat delicious and healthy food that you cook at home, it just means you have to plan a little better. I'm trying to take my own advice here because sometimes I get home at 8pm and just want to eat a box of crackers and call it a night...which is why I don't keep them in the house.

Confession: I did NOT plan well this week but I made it work! I also can't remember what we ate for dinner on Monday.

On Tuesday I made one of my favorite dinners that is SO easy. Trader Joe's Indian Masala Burgers (Vegetarian) with salad.

• Grab some lettuce
• Sprinkle some white balsamic vinegar on it (or whatever your favorite is)
• Heat up your burger
• While your burger is heating, mix some non-fat greek yogurt with a little TJ's curry sauce.
• Put burger on a plate w/ salad
• Top w/ curry yogurt and mango chutney.

YUM!

Yesterday was bliss because my afternoon lessons were cancelled, which meant I had time to both go to the grocery store* and cook dinner. They had fresh wild halibut on sale so how could I resist making one of my favorite dinners? Halibut Puttanesca. Seriously, dear readers, this is SO good.

What you need:

• Halibut (I do about 1/3lb per person, sometimes less)
• Green beans (about a handful per person)
• Anchovies
• Kalamata olives (pitted, in water)
• Roasted red peppers (in water), cut into small strips
• Cilantro
• Garlic (I buy the fresh pre-minced kind, easy peezy)
• Baby tomatoes, cut in half.
• Aluminum foil (for making a bag for the fish)
• Olive Oil
• Salt and Lemon Pepper
• Lemon

What you do:

Preheat the oven to 450. While the oven is pre-heating, tear of 2 pieces of foil, about twice as big as your pieces of fish (this is for two people, for four tear off four, etc.). Place a handful of green beans on each piece of foil and drizzle with a little olive oil. Place a piece of fish on each pile of green beans.

On top of the fish put: 2 anchovy pieces (lay flat, and don't worry, it's just for flavor, they will literally MELT away), a few kalamata olives, some red peppers, about 1 clove of minced garlic, a handful of baby tomatoes, and a few sprigs of cilantro. Squeeze some lemon on that sucker, drizzle a teeny bit of olive oil, grind some lemon pepper, and sprinkle a tiny bit of salt. 

Seal your foil bags (either with another piece of foil, or if yours is big enough just use the one), and put in the oven for about 20 minutes. Depending on how hot your oven is you may want to check it after 10. Our oven is stupid so things always take longer

Halibut Puttanesca.** A truly terrible food picture, but you get the idea.

*Confession: I just went to the organic market because I knew I could get fish there. Usually I need to go there, Trader Joe's, AND Safeway. Ugh.
**This recipe came from my mom! I can't take credit for it.