Dinner with Mom

My mother is visiting from Spain. Not surprisingly, she loves food just like I do, so cooking while she is here is always fun. We had a beautiful and large piece of Arctic char in the fridge that we had bought at Coastal Seafoods and was asking to get on the grill. That along with some of the last fresh corn of the season did the trick. The pan was to add a beurre blanc sauce, but after it split, it looked more like melted butter. It did the trick anyway.

The Arctic char was cooked with just olive oil, salt and pepper on the grill for just about eight minutes on the skin side only.

For the corn sauté, we used a recipe I have adopted from Fine Cooking. Cut up some nice bacon into small pieces, cook and reserve. Cook onion and garlic in the bacon grease or olive oil until they start to soften, add mushrooms (chopped) and cook until almost done. Then, add frozen peas, the corn (shucked). Right before they are done, add the bacon and some chopped chives.

For the starch, we cooked a large sweet potato in the oven until soft and served sliced with a little olive oil and kosher salt.

Here is the result... delicious!