Cook OFF

So i arranged for the first of hopefully many dinners involving surprise ingredients. I invited people to come with any ingredients they wanted to bring with out telling what it was before hand. I made a meal with all of the ingredients only using those things plus salt pepper, flour and oil.

What inspired this? Well, many years of making something out of nothing. I've never been one for planned out meals with a chest full of recipes. That's one thing I love about cooking. It's art. I get to make up something. So when the ingredients in the fridge and cabinets get low it's always exciting to see what I can make with things that initially don't make sense together. For this dinner I tried to recreate this happening. It was a little small in numbers but great for the first time trying it. We had a lot of fun.

List of items
2 lemons
1 lb of cod fish
1 pineapple
1 head of iceberg lettuce
1/2 c quinoa
8 jalepeno peppers

I made a salsa to put atop the fried fish:
juice of one lemon, 1/4 of the pineapple chopped, 4 jalepenos all in a food processor with a pinch of salt.

lightly floured and salted the fish and fried it til golden brown.

salted the water + cooked the quinoa and cooled it for a bit. chopped the lettuce, add juice of one lemon (these suckers were pretty juicy) added the quinoa and tossed.

that was it! simple and delicious