To Crown a Rockfish!

Tonight, Kathy and I decided to cook a rockfish.  It alone, if cooked right, can make your tongue slap your brains out.  So how can we take it over the top?  Crown it with Crab Imperial!

We enjoyed our day together doing errands and running to Waldorf for some extra print cartridges.  After picking them up, we stopped at one of our favorite stores, Nicks of Clinton.  It was there that we picked up some nice rockfish fillets, 1 lb. of jumbo lump crab meat, oh, and filet mignon for a later date.  Why?  Because we like it!

We dropped by Woods Produce in Mechanicsville for a lemon plus a quick stop to Copsey's Seafood for something else that we seem to have every Saturday...Coleslaw!  Copsey's has the best! (If you want to get on Kathy's and my good side, just give us coleslaw!)

When we got home, we prepared the Crab Imperial.  Kathy very carefully sorted through the lump crab meat thoroughly for shells.  We then mixed up the ingredients....1/3 cup of Panko bread crumbs, 1/2 cup of Hellman's Mayo, 1 tsp of Old Bay, 1 tsp sugar, 1 egg,  and 1/4 tsp of dry mustard. All of these got mixed together with the crab meat.  Awesome!


We then stuffed the 2 rockfish fillets with the crab imperial, lay them on a coated baking pan and topped the imperial with buttered bread crumbs.  The oven was set to 350 for a cooking time of 15 mins covered in foil and an additional 15 mins without for browning.  Nice! 

We wanted a sauce to pour on our finished stuffed rockfish, just because we can.  What we came up with was a large tbs of butter, tbs of flour cooking on low for 5 mins.  Then we added a cup of chicken broth, a 1/2 cup of heavy cream, juice of 1/2 lemon, a tablespoon of prepared horseradish and a pinch of black pepper.  Stir until it boils and thickens.

We plated it with seasoned green beans and a baked potato. It pairs nicely.

At first bite, we both agreed.   It is the best dish to date, but are a little apprehensive in giving any dish a rating of 5 because you can't do better!  This dish was really close, but after much deliberation, we settled on a score of 4.5. 

What a wonderful meal!