Crispy Fish Sticks (p36 Bon Appetit July 2013) with Dill Sauce

With the dill sauce I was a bit concerned that it would have to much of that dill flavor. It is easy for me to go overboard, where I still like it, but Shannon does not. So I was a bit light with the hand. The sauce ended up with more of a yogurt flavor then a dill flavor, or even balance between the two. The fish sticks themselves actually ended up turning out very well. I used some toasted, extra long food processed bread crumbs made out of a La Mie challah, and this ended up working out really well. I've made fish sticks before with varying success, but it always seems more work then it's worth. But this turned out well. With a bag of CostCo Cod (I checked my fish app this time), everything worked pretty smoothly. Could it have been a bit crisper? Sure, but overall I was pretty pleased.

Roasted Tomato and Goat Cheese Bisque (vaguely following)

So I have a pile of tomatoes, and I roasted them last week. Then I mixed them with some fresh tomatoes, and kind of followed the recipe. And here's where the silliness began.

The Bisque is simmering, and I'm looking forward to using my stick / immersion blender. And I go to find it. I find the motor part, and some of the things to make smoothies and chopping and etc. I keep looking around the kitchen, searching the cupboards high and low, going through them again, actually taking things out, getting fairly frustrated.

The bisque is still simmering.

I get out the chair to look high directly. Finally after about getting ready to get out the blender, I remember the bag, that came with the stick blender, hanging on the cupboard, where I started looking. I open up the bag and there it is. It had been hanging there, in front of my face, the entire time.

So I then blended it into a nice smooth mixture, only splattering a little bit (I should've used a pot, rather than a straight sided pan), but I like the way it generally worked out. I was happy with the general result, but because it simmered for the 15-20 minutes while I was looking around the kitchen, so perhaps it thickened up a bit too much, but even so, it was still very good.