Our adventure with mahi mahi begins.
A few days ago, Sarah & I were in the grocery & mahi mahi & tuna steaks were on sale for half price. Now Sarah is an extremely picky eater, but she’s been working on trying more foods & really giving them a chance. She loves fish so lately I’ve been pushing her to try more types of seafood. It’s not as hard to get her to try a new fish dish so I’ve been having pretty good luck. Sarah was agreeable to trying one of the fish so I let her pick which one we would try. I think she was really enthused because she knew that like her, I would be trying it for the first time. She chose the mahi mahi.
We left with 2 portions of mahi mahi & me without any clue as to how to cook it. Don’t you love the internet? See, I wouldn’t have dared do that 10 years ago, because it could quite possibly been days before I could find a suitable recipe. Keep in mind, I have to stick to pretty basic & simple recipes when Sarah is trying a new food.
Mahi mahi sauting in the skillet.
At http://www.howtocookfish.info/recipes/fish/mahi-mahi.html I found a recipe for Teriyaki Mahi Mahi. Ok, this recipe has possibilities. Sarah loves teriyaki chicken so this might be enticing for her. I don’t have sesame seeds & decide to leave them out as I’m afraid they might make it harder to get Sarah to eat the fish. It’s a very easy dish to fix but it is a bit time consuming because of the marinade. It doesn’t take very long to fix but you have to allow 30 minutes for the fish to marinate.
It didn’t take but a couple of minutes to saute the garlic. Then I added the rest of the ingredients for the marinade leaving out the sesame seeds. While the fish marinated, I started a pot of rice. My family loves rice so I always fix a large pot of rice when I cook rice. Leftovers of rice are well received in the Spears household.
Time to melt the butter in the skillet & add the fish. Broil a couple pieces of toast & we’re set for supper. In case you’re wondering, no, I’m not neglecting Jim. He hasn’t felt well for the last several days & had a bowl of chicken noodle soup for supper.
Just waiting on the asparagus
The mahi mahi is a hit with both Sarah & myself. This really pleases me as she’s added another food to her acceptable menu. I also spotted several other recipes for cooking mahi mahi that I’m looking forward to trying.
Tags: fish, mahi mahi, picky eater, Sarah