Recipe: Lemon Garlic Tilapia

You Need:

Tilapia {or cod} fillets

Lemon Juice

Butter

Garlic, chopped {I used 2 cloves}

Dried Parsley

Pepper

You Do:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

2. Rinse fish off in cool water, pat dry and then place in baking dish. {I put a couple shakes of extra virgin olive oil in the dish first, but this is not necessary.}
3. Sprinkle lemon juice over fillets. Add more or less, depending on your desired taste.

4. Put some butter on the fish. I just used a butter knife and smeared a bit on top of each fillet.

5. Now sprinkle the fish with the garlic, parsley and pepper. Again, add to taste. The original recipe had a amounts, but this kind of cooking is easily “eyeballed”. :)

6. Bake in oven until fish flakes apart, about 30 minutes. {I only cooked 2 fillets and it was about 25 minutes.}

Enjoy!

Birthday Girl :)

Yes, today is my birthday. How old do you have to be before you can act all offended when someone asks your age? I don’t think I’m quite there yet, plus I doubt I’ll ever be offended by that question. Go ahead and ask me, it’s okay, promise. … I’m 27! Last year, I thought hey I’m just barely over 25, no biggie. This year I feel like, oh man ...almost 30! Obviously, I’m not almost 30 [unless your gage of “almost” is 3 years], but that’s the next “big” birthday and it just feels so close.

I generally a very reflective type of person, especially on my birthday. However, I’m going to try to spare you some of that and just say a couple things...well really one thing that sums up a lot of my reflection. It’s interesting to take a moment and think about where you’ve been and where you are in life. Especially, when you compare it to what you thought might happen or how you thought your life might me. Beware though, this can be a potentially dangerous thing to ponder, but I’m eternally optimistic, so I wasn’t too worried.  In conclusion to this thought, I will say that if you had asked me 10, heck even 5, years ago I wouldn’t not have guessed I’d be where I am today. My life may not be what I had once envisioned, but I’m okay with that. Happy with that actually. All of my choices have led me to this moment in my life and I feel really good about that in itself. Life really is what you make it and I’ve made a pretty awesome one. :)

On a lighter note, last night Brian took me out! We went to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie [I love me some Robert Downey Jr.!] and then out to dinner at the Italian Garden. Not the same as Olive Garden, lol. WAY BETTER. It’s what I would call “real” italian food. I had calamari, yummy shrimp pasta and tiramisu!  Then he took me out for martinis!  Great guy right there! :)  Oh!  And for my bday gift he got me a new flash for my camera - for real, great guy!

yummy calamari!

tiramisu!

 martinis!

Hope you had a great weekend!
Kassie

Out of towner

Just saying a quick hello...and also I had sushi!  First time ever and I loved it. (well technically its the 2nd time, but I don't count the first...more on that Sunday!)

Hope all your weekends are off to a great start!

peace, k