Creative block

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Bob Terwilliger' virtualgoth@die_spammer.biz said:

I got some frozen pecan-crusted trout fillets from the grocery store, and
I'm drawing a blank as to what I should serve with them. I figure on just
brushing them with melted butter and baking them, but I'm not entirely sold
on that idea. I want the side dishes to complement the fish, but I have no
idea what *would* complement the combination of pecans and trout.

My first inclination was to serve it with a mixture of white and wild rice,
with steamed broccoli as a side dish.

I think a rice pilaf made with the wild rice and white rice, onions,
garlic, chicken broth, etc, would be nice. I also think the steamed
broccoli would be nice, maybe I'm boring. You could slow sautee the
broccoli with some sliced winter squash in olive oil and herbs as a side
dish. I'd serve all of that with some mixed greens and a vinaigrette.
I also like the idea of baked sweet potatoes.

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Ranee

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Ranee said:

I think a rice pilaf made with the wild rice and white rice, onions,
garlic, chicken broth, etc, would be nice. I also think the steamed
broccoli would be nice, maybe I'm boring. You could slow sautee the
broccoli with some sliced winter squash in olive oil and herbs as a side
dish. I'd serve all of that with some mixed greens and a vinaigrette.
I also like the idea of baked sweet potatoes.

I ended up baking a sweet potato and making cornbread with apples. But after
eating one of the trout fillets and a wedge of cornbread, I was too full to
eat any of the sweet potato! (Good thing I didn't also make spinach!) So
I've got a leftover cooked pecan trout fillet, a leftover baked sweet
potato, and leftover cornbread. I'm thinking of making sweet potato hash
out of the sweet potato. I want to make some kind of Eggs-Benedict-like
concoction out of the cornbread and the remaining trout, but I'll have to
think about what kind of sauce would go well on top.

Broccoli with winter squash sounds interesting. I had winter squash included
in a steamed vegetable medley once and it worked quite well. I'll keep it
in mind in the coming months.

Bob