Recipe: Tilapia for Dummies

My sister-in-law shared her secret to cooking the easiest tilapia dish ever: Nuke it!

Tilapia for the Time-Strapped Misis

Ingredients

2 pcs medium-size tilapia
Rock salt
3 tomatoes, chopped
1/4 onion, chopped

1. Clean fish. (I can't, for the life of me, clean fish, so I had the dude at the seafood section do it for me.)
2. Make slits along the body. Rub with rock salt.
3. Place in deep, microwave-proof dish. Top with chopped tomatoes and onions.
4. Cover and microwave on medium high for 15 minutes.
5. Squeeze lemon over fish before serving. Done!

P.S. It's a little jarring cooking something with eyes.:s

Recipe: Crispy Bacon-wrapped Dory with Caramelized Onion-Asparagus Salad

One of the things I cooked over the long weekend. It seemed to get a lot of "Likes" when I posted it on Facebook, and a friend even asked for the recipe!

I was looking for something to do with some extra dory that I had, and based this dish on a recipe by Rachael Ray, Crispy Prosciutto-wrapped Sole.

Crispy Bacon-wrapped Dory with Caramelized Onion-Asparagus Salad

Ingredients
Olive oil (or extra virgin olive oil)
Half an onion, chopped
Asparagus spears
1 tomato, chopped
2 tsp Dijon mustard
Fresh thyme (I used the dried version though)
Pepper

2 to 4 strips of bacon
1/4 kilo cream dory fillets
Salt and pepper

Salad
1. Saute onions in olive oil until brown. Sprinkle with pepper. Remove from heat.
2. In a saucepan, boil about 1 inch of water. Place asparagus, sprinkle with salt. Cook until tender. Remove from heat, drain.
3. Mix onions with mustard and thyme.
4. Mix with asparagus. Set aside.

Dory
1. Lay bacon on a flat surface.
2. Pat dry dory before laying on the bacon. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
3. Wrap dory with bacon.
4. In a pan, heat olive oil until it ripples. Drop bacon-wrapped dory and fry about 3 to 4 minutes on each side. Be careful not to overcook.
5. Transfer to plate and serve with salad and chopped tomatoes on the side.

Makes 2 servings.