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Skriven 2009-10-01 06:35:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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 ML> To ruin it for people like me! The one below is extra spoiled
 ML> by the addition of another wtf ingredient, canned lima beans:
 DS> I figured that it was minor enough that you could and would leave it
 DS> out or substitute another liquid.
 DS> As to the lima beans -- it took a long time for me to find what the
 DS> recipe was doing to the poor things and when they'd get added to the
 DS> dish.  Answer was --(a) you are turning them into either thick lima
 DS> bean soup or into little pebbles and (b) you don't, they are kept on
 DS> the side where you could easily ignore them.

Beans are always a minor enough ingredient that you could
leave them out.

 DS> I like lima beans occasionally, but only frozen baby limas.  And I
 DS> cannot see cooking them more than minimally necessary.

What I do to render them palatable: quick saute in butter,
splash of sherry, splash of meat stock. This is pretty much
my standard way of making anything icky edible, though
Brussels sprouts require a slow saute in butter, preferably
with more butter added partway through the cooking.

 -=> Dale Shipp said to Jim Weller <=-

 JW> I haven't tried it yet, but I intend to. Probably late in the year
 JW> when it's colder outside.  Gotta get a cedar plank first.
 DS> Interestingly enough, earlier this week we saw some cedar planks for
 DS> sale in our grocery store.  They were in a display just next to the
 DS> fish counter.  You got two planks about 6-8 inches by perhaps 24 or 30
 DS> inches.  Marked down in price from $6.99 to $4.99.  I was not tempted.

That's a bit much, but you have some assurance that the wood
doesn't have any horrid adulterant.

 DS> However, I wonder why cedar?  And how careful do you need to be to
 DS> make sure the wood is not treated with some chemical (such as the way
 DS> pressure treated wood for exterior use is treated with chemicals that
 DS> would definitely make it not food grade).

1. You can use any wood that you'd consider smoking with, but
cedar is traditional for the supposedly good flavor it imparts.

2. Very careful.

Planked shad fillet with vegetables
servings: 2 or 3
cat: New England, fish, main

1 plank
1 lb shad fillet
olive oil
vegetables to taste such as
parboiled fingerling potatoes
blanched fiddleheads
cherry tomatoes
thin asparagus
scallions in 2" sections
1 lemon
s, p

To make your own plank: use a board of oak or cedar about
9x16x1.5". Plane it smooth, giving one side a shallow
indentation to hold food. Leave unfinished.

Oven at 400F.

Smear the top of the plank with oilve oil. Lay the shad
fillet skin side down in the middle.

Lightly coat vegetables in olive oil.

Drizzle more oil over the surface of the fish.

Squeeze the juice of a lemon over all and season.

Put the board on a middle or higher rack of the oven,
close the door, and bake 15-20 min, depending on the
thickness of the fish. Serve directly from the plank.

after Elizabeth Riely, Edible Boston, Spring 2009

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