Miso Glazed Black Cod

This recipe is fantastic if you want to impress guests at a dinner party. It is very easy and will leave everyone in awe of your culinary skills! The recipe is based on the black cod from "Nobu" an american japanese restaurant. It is awesome.

2-3 black cod fillets (about 1 lb) – black cod is also called “sable fish”

Marinate:

1/5 cup sake


1/5 cup mirin

4 tablespoons white miso paste


2 tablespoons sugar

1) Mix marinade ingredients together.

2) Pat the fish fillets dry with paper towels and put them into a Ziploc with marinade.

3) Marinate overnight in refrigerator (up to 2 days).

4) Preheat oven to 400 degree F.

5) Transfer the fish fillets to the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes. Or until cooked through and flakey

6) Add a few extra drops of the marinate on the plate and serve hot.

I served it with garlic mashed potatoes and asparagus!

Cookie Monster Cupcakes

I love birthdays! Its my little friend Rowan's 1st birthday party today and so I thought that some little boy cupcakes were in order.

These cupcakes were inspired by a google search and so I cannot take credit for the cookie monster idea.. but they are pretty cute, so I thought I would share them with you.

I used the Swiss Meringue Buttercream recipe from an earlier post, two original Mentos (my favorite childhood candy) and Chips Ahoy! chocolate chip cookies.

All I did was add some blue food colouring to the frosting and piped it onto the cupcakes, then drew eyes onto the Mentos with a black pen (i figure a little pen ink never hurt anyone - I'm really hoping this is true), and cut the Chips Ahoy! cookies into 1/3's using the two round end bits and eating the middle!

Its so easy!