Food Porn: Steelhead with Cuban Black Beans
I can't tell you how much I enjoy good fish (no relation to B.F.). I try to get a piece at least once a week, and eat that piece with sustained pleasure. It always puts a grin on our faces when we finish. But, enough about that - onto the recipe for...
Blackened Steelhead
- 2 (two) 6-8 ounce skin on fillets Steelhead
- onion powder
- garlic powder
- paprika
- cayenne powder
- fine ground black pepper
- 1 Tbsp ghee
- 1 Tbsp avocado oil
Method
Pat fish dry on both sides with a paper towel. Lightly dust the flesh side with each of the spices. Heat a skillet over medium high heat until oil is hot (test with finger, if you hear screaming, it's ready). Start each fillet skin side down and don't touch them for three minutes. Gently flip the fish away from you as to not splash oil on yourself (you already burned your finger, silly).
Remove after about 2 minutes and place on a clean paper towel to drain. Plate with yellow rice and Cuban Black Beans (recipe below).
Cuban Black Beans
- 1 (one) 15 ounce can black beans
- 1 jalapeno, fine diced
- 1 shallot, fine diced
- 1 Tbsp red wine vinegar
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 cloves garlic, fine diced (paste may be substituted)
- 1 tsp oregano
- 2 Tbsp cilantro paste
- 1 tsp cumin powder
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
Method
Soak chopped shallots in red wine vinegar for 20 minutes while preparing other ingredients. Preheat olive oil in sauce pot on medium heat. Add garlic and jalapeno to oil with bay leaf, saute for 2 minutes and then add shallots /w vinegar. Dump in beans with their liquor (liquor up front, poker in the rear?). Rinse remaining bean essence off the can with a 1/4 cup or so of water and add. Pitch in all remaining ingredients and bring to a simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
For this dish, I also made yellow rice with some chopped spicy olives. The relay on the plate was savory, salty and spicy, so I needed a counterpoint. I chose a chilled Moscato white, but a semi dry blush wine would work with this dish. Pilsner, IPA or bock style beer would work with this dish too. The steelhead was easy to fork and disappeared quickly from my pallet, melting into buttery oblivion whilst waking my tastebuds with blackening spice. A fork of rice along with the Frijoles Negros... Sour and spice notes from the vinegar and pepper, floral from the cilantro and cumin, umami and almost a fattiness from the starch rounds out the dish. A most satisfying episode of Food Porn.
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sigh ...
Expect to get a call from Trumplethinskin. The beans were bad enough, but black beans??
and CUBAN! The commerce restriction will be called the FARGO EMBARGO!!
Steelhead?
Where are the scallops?
or shrimp?
Hate to carp about it, but I smell something fishy goin' on.
They're both stuck in traffic with the crabdriver. It's just not fare. The crustacea-con won't be the same without them.
Why didn’t the prawn share his toys?
He was a little shellfish
Why did the clam skip dessert?
He was already stuffed.
Why couldn't the clam move?
He needed more muscle.
In order to be more politically correct, we should change the name Great White Shark to Moderately Acceptable Caucasian Shark.
Hey. I thought only Afghan farmers lie:
The Afghan farmer breaks in quickly, "Sheep lie! Sheep lie!"
What do you call a fish without an eye?
A fsh
That's offishally hilarious!
What do you call a deer with no eyes?
No Idear.
What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs?
Still no Idear.
What do you call a deer with no eyes, no legs and no sex drive?
Still no fucking Idear.
I know this is gawd awful, but I'm posting it for the halibut.
Is this steelhead salmon?
And if anyone here pronounces the "L" in salmon we need to talk
Don't you mean tawk?
Yeah....that's it.
So you don't put "P" in your raspberries? Me neither.
Pee in my raspberries???? Ewwww....urine sane
Omigawd, omigawd, omigawd!!!! I'm rollin' over heah!!!
My doctor told me, "On a scale of 1-10, urinate."
Then I pissed on him.
Pisstified [adj]: When you're pissed off and mystified why you haven't beaten the shit out of someone yet.