So Dusseldorf continues to exhibit signs of weather schizophrenia. One day it’s cold and rainy and then it’s sunny and warm, only to get really cold in the evening and to rain on occasion. Every morning I wake up to grey skies but then around midday, the most beautiful, sharp, blinding sun comes out and shines till the late afternoon. I come out on the balcony, to bask in the sunshine and I realize that it’s really, really cold. This city and its weather are thoroughly confused. I’m not confused. I know what to cook when capricious weather strikes: soups, pots and pots of soups. Wintertime is like a culinary soup school for me, it allows me to broaden my soup repertoire. So I look in my numerous cookbooks, wrap myself tightly and go shopping for soup ingredients. Yesterday, I made a delicious red lentil soup with coriander. It instantly put me in a good mood, because it looked like a ray of sunshine in a bowl, and it tasted really good, too.
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I am going to make a bold statement: Cod is my most favorite fish in the whole world. Halibut is a close second, followed by albacore tuna (but only sashimi style) and salmon (but only sashimi style or smoked, and if smoked, then only in a particular way, from one particular place in Poland)… and on a related topic: I hate herring, always have and probably always will. All this to say, that for the moment being, you will not see any herring recipes on this blog but you will see plenty of cool fish, like cod, tuna and salmon. Also, I do realize that I’m weird and I will make a serious attempt at branching out fishwise or, at the very least, I will provide you with as many delicious and varied cod/halibut/tuna/salmon recipes as humanly possible. Although after eating this particular roasted cod with tomatoes, onions, red peppers and orange zest, I must say that my branching out incentives are pretty slim.
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