I admit it.  I didn’t do much cooking last week.  And I surely didn’t come up with a recipe for the halibut that I listed.  It was just one of those super busy weeks so I’m letting that be that.

And I’m recycling!!  This week’s challenge may look a little familiar.  The ingredients are:

• Halibut
• Rice
• Artichokes
• Carrots

If you haven’t played along before, check out How This Works above. Basically, post a recipe here or on your site and let us know about it!  I’ll then cook up the meal and give it a whirl!

This week’s challenge is a return to fish.  I love fish and living in the Puget Sound (well, on an island in the Puget Sound to be accurate) gives me access to some of the best seafood around.  We might not have great lobster, but we do have wonderful salmon and halibut.  And just around the corner is Copper River Salmon!! It’s some of the best there is and comes fresh from Alaska.

With that in mind, this whole month is going to be a fish month!  Let’s start it off with:

• Halibut
• Rice
• Artichokes
• Carrots

That should be fairly simple!  I hope.  I’ve stopped noting in the ingredient list which items are organic because, quite simply, all my ingredients are organic.  Well 95% of the time anyway.  And while I don’t think it’s vital to a recipe to call out which ingredients are and aren’t, I do believe the better tasting food is grown organically most of the time.  That is why you haven’t seen a ton of out of season foods in the challenges, but as Summer is just around the corner, expect to see a bigger variety in the challenges ahead!

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I’ve got some good news and some bad news.  The good news is Kay’s recipe was wonderful!  The bad news is, I can’t find my cable for my video camera.   I will find it and get the video posted, in the mean time enjoy the still shot of Kay’s great recipe.

Kay, Kay, Who’s this Kay person?   She was the lone and winning entry for this week’s challenge.   It’s a great recipe and while I didn’t have any butter (I’m new) it has a wonderful, creamy butteriness I’ve never had with halibut.  Kay added in milk and flour to the onions and mushrooms to create a yummy sauce that I managed not to botch up, in spite of nearly burning myself with the boiling hot olive oil.  You’ll have to wait for the video, I’m sorry.  I don’t scream, but come close to it. 

Kay runs a fabulous website with tons of cooking tips called kayotickitchen.com.  She also has some wonderful non food photography over at Kayotic.com.   Give her a moment and check them both out!

So look for the video to be posted soon and tune in Monday for another exciting recipe challenge!