Seafood stew on a cold, rainy day

Today was cold, rainy, and the best sort of weather for staying indoors with a good book or video game, and it just so happens to be the day slated to try out Seafood Stew. When I first decided to cook through the list of Tales of Symphonia recipes, I just looked up the names of the recipes on Google. Most of the recipes came from allrecipes.com, as is the case for Seafood Stew, which is a thick, American-style stew. Here is the recipe, courtesy of allrecipes.com:

Seafood Stew

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups chicken broth 1/2 cup uncooked long grain rice 2 teaspoons chili powder 2 garlic cloves, minced 1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes, undrained 3/4 cup julienned green pepper

3/4 cup julienned sweet red or yellow pepper 1/2 cup thinly sliced onion 8 ounces orange roughy or red snapper fillets, cut into 1-inch pieces 4 ounces uncooked medium shrimp, peeled and deveined 3/4 cup orange juice concentrate

Directions:

1.

In a saucepan, bring broth to a boil. Add the rice, chili powder and garlic; return to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15-20 minutes or until rice is tender. Add the tomatoes, peppers and onion. Cover and cook over medium heat until vegetables are tender. Add fish, shrimp and orange juice concentrate. Cover and simmer for 2-4 minutes or until the fish flakes easily with a fork and the shrimp turn pink. I also included dried seaweed (like the stuff that goes around sushi) to replace the kelp that the game requires, some lemon juice (no scurvy for us!) and some black pepper because, as I think I've mentioned, I put black pepper on almost everything. We're having this flavorful stew with a side of cornbread, courtesy of a Jiffy cornbread mix. :-)  And the verdict is.... It's... different. Not quite what I was expecting. If you like citrus and fish, you'll probably like this stew. And that's all I have to say about that.

Dwarven Vow #2: Never abandon someone in need.

In spite of a brief hiatus in the world of blogging, my wonderful husband has been helping cook even further. It was a long work week and I hurt my back, but he definitely gets the whole "Never abandon someone in need." At least, where I'm concerned.  He took care of two recipes at once: omelet and fried rice.

Omelets are really quite simple, so long as you don't overload them with ingredients. At least, that's what he tells me. The Tales crew always puts rice in their omelets, so he tried to do the same. He took brown rice, cooked and cooled in the refrigerator overnight and stir fried it in a little olive oil and soy sauce with salt, pepper, chopped carrots, and bell pepper. That was the fried rice part. He beat 2-3 eggs in a separate cup with herbs and spices that he liked (he tends to cook by smell; he did mention that he used Greek seasoning), and then fluffed the eggs with chopsticks and poured it over the whole thing and let it cook until it was firm on the bottom before trying to turn or fold it. He added cheese before it was done to make sure it was melted.

 

 Hm, could have sworn that picture was turned sideways when I uploaded it.... Oh well. And we were supposed to add tomatoes to it... the game would probably say we failed to cook it, but we leveled up, anyway. :-) One nice thing about this dish is that it's pretty cheap to make.