Parmesan Baked Fish

I rarely cook fish. Not because I don't know how to cook -- I just don't know how to cook fish.

Fish kinda scares me a little bit...

Many years ago, I found this recipe in a cookbook and I thought I could handle this! Easy, simple ingredients and not a lot of effort. So I gave it a try and hubby and I both loved it! I've made it over and over and it works great with whatever kind of fish you're using.

I'm still scared of fish though! I never quite know what to buy and usually go with whatever the guy at the store recommends or whatever the store carries a lot of in the frozen aisle. I especially like it when I see someone who looks like they know how to cook fish buying fish. I wait for them to move far away and then I buy the same thing.

My daughter has wanted to try salmon so I thought I'd make it for her while she was home during Easter. A local grocery store had a big special on frozen pink salmon a couple of weeks ago, so I picked up a few and made them with my recipe. She said she loved it and she ate almost all of it!



Wash fish fillets and pat dry. Put on foil-lined baking pan sprayed with Pam or non-stick spray. These are pink salmon that came frozen in a 16oz (1 pound) package. 

Salt and pepper the fillets and then put a heaping spoonful of mayonnaise on top. I really hate it when someone doesn't list an EXACT measurement; but this will vary depending on the fish! You might need to add more mayo -- you want enough to coat the entire fish on the top and the sides. 

Fillets are coated in mayo. 

Sprinkle generously with parmesan cheese. I put enough to cover the top. 

I usually add fresh shredded parmesan to the top of that (I had refrigerated this time) and then sprinkle with paprika. 

Bake at 450 for about 25 minutes. I will broil them for about 30 - 60 seconds to get the topping "crunchy melted" 

Incredibly easy! Everyone I have ever made this recipe for has loved it! If you want to give it a try, here's the recipe:

Parmesan Baked Fish
16 ounces fresh or frozen fish fillets. (if frozen, thaw first)
Non-stick spray coating
1/2 cup mayonnaise (could be more -- could be less)
Grated parmesan cheese
Paprika
Salt and pepper

Rinse fish and pat dry with paper towels. Line a baking sheet with foil and spray with non-stick spray coating. Put fish on foil-lined pan (skin side down) and sprinkle with salt and pepper.

Spread mayonnaise over the fish fillets. You can spread as thinly or as generously as you wish. Sprinkle parmesan cheese over the mayonnaise and then sprinkle with the paprika.

Bake in preheated oven at 450 for about 25 minutes. If using very thin fillets, they may cook faster.

When done, put underneath broiler for 30-60 seconds. (Sometimes I do not do this as the fish has cooked perfectly and I don't want the topping to become more brown.)

And... serve!

A few variations I've tried:
Mixing the parmesan and the mayonnaise together before spreading it.
Adding chopped green onions to the top.
Sprinkle with garlic (fresh or powder) to the filet before spreading the mayo.

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Team Jacob! Woohoo

My daughter came home for a few days over the Easter break and brought home a carload of stuff from her dorm room. She'll be home again for the summer in just two weeks and wanted to clear out a few things now.

One of the items she brought home was this life-size cardboard cut-out of the Jacob guy in the Twilight movies. I bought it for her from Nordstroms last summer as kind of a fun thing to put into her dorm room. (She is not much of a Twilight fan and I think he ended up being stored under the bed or in the closet.) When I saw him thrown on the floor of our garage, I picked him up and propped him up in the garage. He is kinda cute. 

Later that night, I walked out into the garage for something -- and he startled me! I forgot he was there! Almost wacked him with the garbage bag I was carrying!

So I took him and stuck him in the bedroom. I was going to tease hubby about "the other man" in my life.

My alarm went off this morning. The alarm clock is on the dresser so it forces me to get out of bed and walk across the room and hit the snooze for 15 more minutes turn it off.

Half asleep, I tumble out of bed and walk over to the alarm clock... I forgot Jacob was there...

I'm sure my scream woke up our nearest neighbors who live about a half mile away.

I hope the alarm clock I wacked him with will still work!!

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Eighteen Wheels... and a Piece of Metal

Hubby and I decided to take a nice drive today. For over a week, the weather has been just rotten -- rain, wind and even snow! His truck (which I have been driving in the nasty weather) was just as dirty as a truck could be, so we decided to take a nice drive and go to the car wash -- which is about 20 miles away.

Just a few short miles from home, we saw a semi truck pulled off on the side of the highway. Littering the highway behind him in both lanes were remnants of the tires he had apparently lost just moments before. Cars are swerving to avoid the debris in the road -- and we began to slow down to do the same...

Then at the same instant we saw it, we also hit it. HARD. A huge piece of metal in the road. The front tire of our truck ran over the metal piece and catapulted it into the underside of the truck. The impact was actually so hard, I thought we had been hit by another car. The jolt knocked everything out of place inside the truck and even turned the windshield wipers on. 

Hubby pulled over and checked out the damage. The piece of metal tore out three holes in the panel underneath the doors. At least it didn't tear or puncture the tires so it was drivable. We picked the piece of metal up to get it out of the road so nobody else would hit it. Hubby then pulled across the road and parked in front of the semi to talk to the driver. The driver, who was rather irritable (to state it kindly), basically said it wasn't his fault we hit something in the road.

So we circle back around, park waaaay behind the irritable driver sitting in his truck and called the police. Officer showed up a few minutes later and talked to hubby and then drove up the road to talk to the truck driver. They talked quite awhile. Officer then returns to us and verified that Mr. Truck Driver was indeed a bit irritable but calmed down after chatting a bit.

Our insurance will call for the police report. The trucker was working for a company so hopefully their insurance will pay to fix our truck.

Not exactly the nice drive we had planned! But it could've been so much worse and we are very thankful that nobody was hurt.

Using the 'stalker zoom" on my camera.

 

We parked far away from the irritable truck driver.

  

Metal piece in the road -- about 18" long and very heavy.

End of the metal piece -- this is what tore into our truck.

I was hoping he would turn the lights back on so I could get a better photo (a la Jurrasic Park - LOL)

First photo of the damage. See why we were going to the car wash? :)

After the car wash -- hubby pushed the piece in a little bit so it didn't look so icky.

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