by Barbara Ross
When I found out my Mystery Lovers Kitchen guest post would run on
Valentine’s Day, I spent a lot of time consternating about which recipe from my
new Maine Clambake Mystery, Fogged Inn,
I would offer up. I needed something romantic. Nothing seemed to suit.
But then I realized one of my recipes had a very romantic
backstory. On the day before Valentine’s last year, my daughter Kate called us
to announce her engagement. Her fiancé, Luke, is a wonderful young man, a
research scientist Kate was introduced to by one of her high school friends,
who had married one of his high school friends. And so a match was made.
Kate’s not much of a cook. During her years in Manhattan and
London I used to joke that she stored her sweaters in her oven. But a return to
Boston and a grad student’s budget finally got her into her kitchen. Meanwhile,
across the country, Luke was also in grad school and using his limited spare
time to perfect this fish taco recipe among others. He generously shared it
with me for Fogged Inn.
They’ll be married in May.
(Leslie says: And aren't they just as cute as they can be?)
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Luke’s Fish Tacos
Sauce
½ cup
mayonnaise
1 cup
sour cream
1/2 small shallot, finely chopped
1
medium jalapeño, diced
Juice
of one medium lime
Salt and pepper to taste
2
cilantro sprigs
Taco and Toppings
8
corn tortillas, warmed
2
jalapeños, chopped
1/2 shallot, finely chopped
2
tomatoes, chopped
Chopped
cilantro sprigs
1
lime cut into wedges for squeezing
1
small head radicchio, chopped
Fish
1
pound any seasonal white fish
2 tablespoons butter
Seasoning
1/8
teaspoon cayenne powder
1/4
teaspoon paprika
1/8
teaspoon pepper
1/8
teaspoon garlic powder
1/8
teaspoon salt
To make the sauce
Combine
the sauce ingredients in a bowl and mix. Prepare at least 1 hour in advance and
let sit in the refrigerator. (If you have leftover sauce, it makes for a great
chip dip!)
To make the fish
Cook
fish in butter and ½ teaspoon of the seasoning until the fish is
opaque. Squeeze lime juice from one wedge on the fish, then break up the
fillet.
To serve
Serve
fish on warmed corn tortillas with toppings and sauce.
Serves:
4
About Fogged Inn: An autumn chill has
settled over Busman's Harbor, Maine, but Julia Snowden is warming up the town
by offering lobster stew at the local diner. When her landlord discovers a dead
body in the walk-in refrigerator, Julia must figure out who ordered up a side
of murder.
Nothing's colder than a corpse--especially one stashed inside a sub-zero fridge. The victim spent his last night on earth dining at the restaurant bar, so naturally Julia finds herself at the center of the ensuing investigation. Lost in the November fog, however, is who'd want to kill the unidentified stranger--and why. It might have something to do with a suspicious group of retirees and a decades-old tragedy to which they're all connected. One thing's for sure: Julia's going to make solving this mystery her early bird special…
Nothing's colder than a corpse--especially one stashed inside a sub-zero fridge. The victim spent his last night on earth dining at the restaurant bar, so naturally Julia finds herself at the center of the ensuing investigation. Lost in the November fog, however, is who'd want to kill the unidentified stranger--and why. It might have something to do with a suspicious group of retirees and a decades-old tragedy to which they're all connected. One thing's for sure: Julia's going to make solving this mystery her early bird special…
Barbara Ross is the
author of the Maine Clambake Mysteries, Clammed Up, Boiled Over, Musseled
Out and Fogged Inn. Clammed Up was nominated for an Agatha
Award for Best Contemporary Novel and was a finalist for the Maine
Literary Award for Crime Fiction. Barbara blogs with a wonderful group
of Maine mystery authors at Maine Crime
Writers and with a group of writers of New England-based cozy mysteries
at Wicked Cozy Authors.
She loves to hear from readers. You can find her at her
website at www.maineclambakemysteries.com
, or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/barbaraannross
, on Twitter @barbross, or on
Pinterest at www.pinterest.com/barbaraannross
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