I don’t know how much soul I bring to recipes. I guess that happens when you have a love of cooking. And there are lots of amazing people who absolutely love cooking. Me? Not so much. I don’t love it. I do it but it doesn’t fill me with an intense joy. I like it when I have a reason, like the blog, to do it.
I do love entertaining, although there’s not been very much of that happening the past two years. What do I love about it? I love planning, creating a menu, researching recipes, organizing the serving dishes, making a centerpiece, creating a beautiful table, etc. And yes, I even love the cleaning. It gives me great satisfaction. 😉😉 And Richard always picks lovely dinner music. Quite often Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong or John Coltrane.
Now one would think I’m entertaining tonight. Nope. Just us. But I am trying a new recipe, Poached Cod.
Cod is popular as a food with a mild flavour and a dense, flaky, white flesh. In the United Kingdom, Atlantic cod is one of the most common ingredients in fish and chips.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod
For more information on the Newfoundland cod fishery: https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/economy/moratorium-impacts.php
It’s not been a great week, with a friend’s death, and then Russia invading the Ukraine. Too much turmoil. So for my recipe I chose a quickie. A quick recipe and a quicker salad – a bagged salad with added pumpkin seeds, walnuts, and cranberries.) Paired with a Moscow Mule.
The cod recipe was from the Acadian Pictorial Cookbook. Richard loves cod. The cookbook photo is the Grand Pre National Historic Site.
Grand-Pré is a Canadian rural community in Kings County, Nova Scotia. Its French name translates to “Great/Large Meadow” and the community lies at the eastern edge of the Annapolis Valley several kilometres east of the town of Wolfville on a peninsula jutting into the Minas Basin surrounded by extensive dyked farm fields, framed by the Gaspereau and Cornwallis Rivers. The community was made famous by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow‘s poem Evangeline and is today home to the Grand-Pré National Historic Site.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand-Pr%C3%A9,_Nova_Scotia
Information about the Acadians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadians
This area of Nova Scotia holds fond memories. My alma mater, Acadia University, https://www2.acadiau.ca/home.html is in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. What great years they were.
I couldn’t cook cod and not include a Newfoundland song.
I’s the B’y – Great Big Sea
Stay safe and healthy.
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