Want fish?  How about steamed fish with vegetables and no mess to clean up?  Yeah, now I got your attention.  So last night I knew exactly what I wanted to make for supper.  I have been stewing about it for a few days and was curious how the flavor combination would work out.

For the vegetables, I went with asparagus and portabella mushrooms and for the sauce I combined balsamic vinegar, lemon,  maple syrup and some fresh blueberries to round out the flavor profile.  The results in the house were double thumbs up and I was pleased with the flavor of the fish as well as the texture.

Ingredients

• 4 pieces of Halibut
• 8 Asparagus pieces
• 6 Baby Portabella mushrooms
• Juice of 1 Lemon
• Salt and Pepper
• 2 Tbsp. Butter
• 1/3 Cup Balsamic Vinegar
• 1/2 Cup Blueberries
• 1 Tsp. Garlic

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 400 F degrees.
2. Get too large pieces of tin foil and place them on the counter top and begin to assemble.
3. Season the fish on both sides with salt and pepper
4. Add 1/2 asparagus and 1/2 mushrooms.

1. Top with a bit of lemon juice and a drizzle of balsamic

1. Seal the tinfoil and ensure no air can get inside.
2. Cook for 20-22 minutes.
3. For the sauce, combine butter, garlic, balsamic, blueberries and lemon and bring to a boil and let reduce.  Serve over the fish.
4. ENJOY

Zesty Tip: Be careful opening the hot pouches as you can burn your hand quite easily.  Another idea is to set the pouches on parchment or tinfoil inside the baking sheet incase the tinfoil breaks to avoid any mess.

Dempster’s Giveaway Winners

Jo @ Jo In the Kitchen March 30, 2011 at 11:14 am

One of my favorite cookbooks is the Moosewood Cookbook. So many lovely recipes, so little time

Sandy March 30, 2011 at 11:18 am

Great contest idea! I have a lot of cookbooks and my favorite changes from time to time but I have to say my recurring go to books are those by Ann Lindsay. I find the recipes always successful, tasty and most of all, very healthy. Her soups are all great and quick but come together quickly. A good hearty meal idea on weeknights when time is tight.

Janette March 30, 2011 at 11:26 am

I dont have any particular books that I love the most to buy I love eat drink and vegans recipes though she has some great ideas.

Roberta March 30, 2011 at 4:42 pm

My favorite cookbook is my own. As I have tried recipes over the years, and the ones that I like and my family like, have been put in one cookbook. But if I were going to pick one to buy, it would be the future cookbook of recipes from Gena and her blog “Choosing Raw.” Even though I am not entirely vegan, I love her recipes!

Mimi April 1, 2011 at 8:42 am

I love to use the Williams and Sonoma Dinner in 30 minutes cookbooks. Great food quick after a long day at work!

Congrats to all the winners. For the winners, please send me an email and I will get the coupons sent to you as soon as possible.

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Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian readers out there.  This past weekend was action packed to say the least.  Saturday included some work at the house site, taking a load to the dump, and a super Thanksgiving Dinner.  It didn’t end there, to close out the night  Mrs. Zesty and I hit the dance floor during a wedding reception we were invited to.

That was only Saturday which I know is likely hard to imagine…. but Sunday was equally as exciting.  We were invited to a family picnic by our house builders.  It was really nice of them to do that and we had a great time.  The weather was very nice for a change and the kids had a great time running around and playing. The food looked amazing and I did have a sample of the seafood chowder.  I didn’t want to pig out too much because we had plans to have another turkey dinner with my Family.

I kind of have a hodge podge post for you today because I was unsure how to structure it (the whole week for that matter).  What I thought would be a great idea is to have a “Turkey Feast Week“.  This week will include fantastic turkey creations from kicked up vegetable dishes, homemade cranberry, mustard pickles, amazing dressing, melt in your mouth turkey and of course a couple of killer desserts.

With that said, I am going to start the week of with a glimpse at the full meal deal and some random shots throughout the cooking process.

As I mentioned on Friday, we were going to attempt to go apple picking on Saturday if the weather was fine – the weather was not fine!  Poured rain all day on Saturday so we are attempting to go today.  I will keep you posted and may intervene with an apple post.

Before I start off this fun post I need to announce the three lucky winners of the POM Tea Giveaway.

Winners

Comment 36: Tiffany

I have always want to try these…I told some co-workers about the giveaway.

Comment 16: Melissa
I just told 10 of my co-workers about the giveaway and your site! Will be linking back next…

Comment 30: Low
Hey Zesty! I just gave you a tweet out! Is that proper Twitter lingo? Something tells me it’s not, but you know what I mean.

For all the winners, contact me with your mailing address and I will get your coupon delivered.

Turkey Day

Without giving away some great recipes today, I am going to share with you some shots I took throughout the day on Saturday.  I will get into the details and recipe specifics later this week.  I am so excited about the line-up I am finding it hard not to post them all at once.

I hope you have a super Monday and if it is a holiday for you – please enjoy it.  I am heading out to the house today to hang with the builders and maybe help them if I can.

Take care

zesty

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