Memorial Day

I had another lovely date with Patrick on Thur,, eve.
My friend Jose was coming up from Fresno and was in an accident so I made other plans to see Patrick on Sat. afternoon and Dave for dinner Sat eve. Jim took me to lunch and to see Sex in the City. I love those movies and Ricardo and I went out for Persian food on Sun.

On Mon I had brunch with Frank. A chance to see how the other half lives in a perfectly restored house in Willow Glen, an area I love. Then I noticed 2 cars and after brunch he told me he was married. Very rich and feeling neglected. No thank you. Men do not do well alone.

I am leaving to go N to Trinidad to see Marilyn and a man named Earl,who lives in Eureka to hike the Lost coast and hopefully enjoy some dry days. He is a Jew who is in temple all day. Sat.
Marilyn's liver is messed up cuz of her meds. She is very sick.

Her son Jesse is also off on a parinoid, schitzophrenic bi polar binge and off meds, He is sure his baby born in Dec, to his Japanese born wife, is not his and is beyond scary mixed with his rants. He needs to get on meds. again, This is compounded by the fact that noone told Yukari that Jesse had this history, as does the baby now.

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Okay, I could have gotten really fancy there and told you that I made Tilapia en Papilotte, which I did but I really want you to try this and figure this title might not intimidate you and you could see how truly easy this recipe is!

I am submitting this recipe to Marye at The Restless Chipotle who is helping to change the way people think about fast food. It DOES NOT need to come from a box to be fast food! To see what she is trying to do and to check out all of the the wonderful entries from her last round of Real Food….. Real Quick up head to her site!

In total I think this took me about 5 minutes to pull together and that included going outside and cutting the herbs for it.



Tilapia in Parchment adapted from and inspired by Heart homecooked

4 Tilapia fillets
4 sprigs each of thyme, oregano (1 sprig of each for each pouch)
1/4 cup packed basil leaves, thinly sliced
8 slices of thinly sliced lemon, 2 for each pouch
4 tsp of butter, 1 tsp for each pouch
coarse salt and ground black pepper to taste

Directions:

•Preheat oven to 425F.
•Wash fillets and pat dry with paper towels. Season well with salt and pepper.
•Place fillets on top of cut parchment paper (ehow.com and latimes.com have excellent "en papillote" step by step instructions) and top with butter, lemon wheel and herbs. Seal the pouch and cook for 10 minutes.
***you can skip the butter if you are watching your weight. I added about 1 tsp of olive oil to mine instead of the butter and it is a 4 Point recipe based on a 6 oz. piece of fish.