Lighter and easier than you think French Dessert!

Summer vegetable pastas

To keep my salads super healthy and easy to make I like to go in my refrigerator and see what vegetable I have on hand and go with what I have and simply toss in with 1 part cooked multi grain pasta to 3 part vegetables add fat free feta cheese or parmesan and your favorite light vinaigrette and voila!

Fourth of July Fish Fry!

Change it up this year take the day and go fishing with the entire family bring home everyone’s catch of the day and make it a fish fry this year! Use my perfect fry fish recipe YOU are going to love it and so will y our guess serve it with a homemade ramoulade and a few side dishes and this might become a new way to celebrate fourth of July with the family! Enjoy!

Perfect fried fish Prep: 8 min Cook:9 min Serve: 4 1 ½ lbs white grunt or any white fish 2 eggs Pinch of sea salt & cracked black pepper ½ cup crushed Ritz crackers ½ cup instant potato flakes ½ cup Italian bread crumbs 2 cups canola oil. Lemon wedges to squeeze on top of fried fish Add oil to a deep frying pan or cast iron pan on medium heat and let it heat up to 350 degrees no more then 375 degrees. Start by mixing the eggs, sea salt & pepper together in a bowl. Add fish and coat on all sides. In a separate shallow dish mix well crackers, potato flakes and bread crumbs. Take your fish out of the egg mixture and tossed gently in the breading and coat well on all sides. Add to frying oil and fry 5 minutes on first side until breading start to golden a little flip and cook additional 4 minutes. Remove and place on paper towel to drain any excess oil. Squeeze some lemon juice over fish serve immediately! See the video at http://offthehookontheplate.com/ Or click on the link to the left Fishing/Cooking with Josee!