{"id":688,"date":"2020-03-21T00:27:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T00:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christiniacrippes.com\/food\/?p=688"},"modified":"2020-03-21T00:27:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T00:27:51","slug":"obligatory-lenten-fish-dish-to-happily-enjoy-year-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christiniacrippes.com\/food\/2020\/03\/21\/obligatory-lenten-fish-dish-to-happily-enjoy-year-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Obligatory Lenten fish dish to happily enjoy year-round"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though I\u2019ve long since given up on giving up anything for Lent (or practicing Catholicism, for that matter), I still can\u2019t help but mark the time of the year.<\/p>\n

So, of course, I know that it\u2019s the time of the year for fish Fridays (or possibly vegetarian, but if you\u2019re my age and Midwestern, the idea of giving up \u201cmeat\u201d entirely used to be unacceptable, so fish is not \u201cmeat,\u201d but that\u2019s a whole other discussion). I\u2019ve also given up this practice, at least intentionally, but I do like a good excuse to make something with fish.<\/p>\n

That is even more true as I practice sustainable fish-eating habits and have been sitting on 2 pounds of frozen haddock from my last trip to Whole Foods<\/a>, where I can reliably get sustainable seafood. It turns out as much as I\u2019m nostalgic for my Highlands honeymoon, I just don\u2019t eat that much fried food, so it\u2019s sat less used than I imagined when I bought it.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, Jamie Oliver\u2019s 5 Ingredients<\/a> cookbook delivered with a \u201ccrazy simple\u201d fish pie.<\/p>\n

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Fish pie ingredients.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not only was it an incredibly simple dish, it called for specifically haddock and still managed to recall my Highlands honeymoon even though we never had this particular meal there.<\/p>\n

As the cookbook and this recipe\u2019s name suggest, the pie is short on ingredients and crazy simple. It\u2019s perfect for a weeknight meal, and yet still manages to taste like something special.<\/p>\n

I even managed to use a much smaller skillet than called for and it all worked out (unlike some of my past plans<\/a>), though it was slightly more juicy so maybe lay off the soaking water if you\u2019re using a 9-inch skillet, but it still tasted great and I have no regrets.<\/p>\n

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It was a simpler time when I made this crazy simple (and delicious) fish pie.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here\u2019s what I did (following the simple recipe other than size of skillet — which was meant to be 30 cm instead of 22 cm, so anything in between should work fine — and I did sneak in an extra phyllo dough sheet):<\/p>\n

Ingredients\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n