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High-heat Mahi Mahi with lemon dill butter, brown and wild rice and bacon-roasted Brussels Sprouts.


To be continued....




UPDATE:
OK. It was, indeed, good. You can do this. I'm going to assume there are two of you. Adjust UP, family people:

First, start the rice when you hit the back door. 1/2 Cup rice to 1 Cup of water. Bring it to a boil then turn the heat way low, put the lid on. Take about 6 slices of bacon and throw them onto a cookie sheet and into a 400 degree oven. Now, quickly, get upstairs and get out of that monkey suit they made you wear at the office.

All changed? Great.

You can pour yourself a beverage if you wish. While you sip, pull about 2" of butter out of the fridge. I guess that's 2 tablespoons. Nuke it in the microwave for 7 seconds. While the microwave is beeping at you to remind you about the butter, chop some dill. About 2 tablespoons-worth chopped is plenty. Look at your bacon. Does it look crispy? Really crispy? Okay, then you can take it out of the oven and set it aside on a plate. Just leave the greasy cookie sheet right there.

Back to your dill. Get the soft-ish butter out of the microwave. Throw the dill onto it. Add a smidge of salt. Squeeze 1/2 a lemon over it. Mush it altogether with a fork. This is called a "Compound Butter". It means" "butter mushed together with some stuff".

Now . Take about 6-8 Brussels sprouts out of the fridge. You have 6-8 Brussels sprouts, DON'T YOU??? Cut those buggers in half, then in half again, so you have little Brussels wedges. Throw them on your old bacon sheet. Crank the heat on your oven to 450 and toss them in for 10-15 minutes. You want those suckers to get golden outer edges, but not to burn. And if the whole house smells like cabbage, you let them go for too long. SO CHECK THEM.

Keep sipping that beverage, you are almost done.

When the Brussels sprouts come out, squeeze about 1/2 tablespoon of honey over them, and crumble up all that bacon and toss them in a bowl.

DON'T WASH THAT PAN YET!!!

...Because your fish will go right on it. Take 2 Mahi Mahi filets and plop them down on your bacon-Brussels sprouts-cookie sheet. Divide your dill butter in half and put a blob of that on top of each piece of fish. Put this in your HOT 450-degree oven for like 7 minutes, then serve everything.

It IS easy. I only went into play-by-play detail to help you first-timers out there.

Mi esposo, who swears up and down that he hates Brussels sprouts ate every last one off his plate.


Have fun! I know you'll have an amazing meal.