Fish…and vanilla?

This dish was inspired by Lydia over at The Perfect Pantry. A while back, she had posted a recipe for Sea Bass with Vanilla Cream Sauce that just intrigued me as I had never seen vanilla used for anything outside of dessert and baked goods, let alone with meat/fish. I mean, there’s fish…and vanilla. Huh?

There’s really no reason vanilla can’t be used for other things (e.g. a la chocolate and chicken), but its funny how you just sort of typecast things. Kind of like how my colander is only for pasta–it was embarrassingly shocking for me when I realized I could also use it for boiling potatoes (…or anything other than pasta). Vanilla with fish seemed like another such “aha!” kind of moment…just not as embarrassing. This idea bounced around in my head for a while, all but forgotten, and then I was reminded of vanilla and fish once again when it showed up on French Laundry at Home.

And so it

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Posted by mike on December 30th, 2007 in Main course, Sauce, Seafood

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