Recipes from The Perils of Paella

Fisherman's Delight:
Baked Gilthead Sea Bream
Nancy Fairbanks

• Preheat oven to 400° F.
  
  
• Roat 1 peeled head of garlic separated into cloves on a lightly oiled baking heet for 10 to 15 minutes, remove from oven, an set aside.
  
  
• Peel ½ lb. potatoes and slice very thinly blanche for 3 to 4 minutes in boiling water, drain, and pat dry. Brush bottom of baking dish with olive oil and layer slices, overlapping to cover.
  
  
• Cut 1 ½ lbs. gilthead sea bream into 4 steaks about 2-in. thick. If sea bream is unavailable, use red snapper or sea bass. Arrange steaks on top of potatoes.
  
  
• Bake fish for about 10 minutes; then arrange evenly around the edges (not on top) 2 peeled, seeded, and quartered tomatores; 1 roasted, peeled green pepper cut into strips, 20 small pitted black olives such as Nicoise, the baked garlic cloves, a bay leaf, and 1 botifarra sausage cut into ¾-in lengths.
  
  
• Sprinkle on top of fish 1 minced sprig of fresh thyme or ¼ tsp. dried, plus salt and pepper.
  
  
• Bake for 15 to 20 minutes more or until fish and sausage are done.

Serves 4 as a main course.

Carolyn Blue, "Have Fork, Will Travel." Boise Miner Herald

More about The Perils of Paella
Nancy Fairbanks

While her husband gives an academic lecture nearby, Carolyn opts to spend time in Barcelona, soaking up the sights, eating out, and visiting her friend Roberta. Her first feast is for the eyes—a modern art museum where Roberta is a resident Miro scholar. There, Carolyn catches a performance art piece about death, planted a little too firmly in reality. One of the actors is not acting—she’s dead—as well as a dead ringer for Roberta. And now Carolyn is in the middle of a new investigation of a very unsavory crime, assisting the very reluctant Catalan homicide detective Ildefons Pujol i Serra, not to mention searching for Robbie’s runaway stepson Sammie and fending off local criminals.

ECard for Perils of Paella

(Culinary Mystery with Recipes)
Berkley (Prime Crime) , January 2004
Featuring: Carolyn Blue
304 pages ISBN: 042519390X
Paperback
$5.99

Also by Nancy Fairbanks:
Holy Guacamole! , November 2004
Chocolate Quake , April 2003
Death À L’Orange , June 2002
Truffled Feathers , December 2001
Crime Brûlée , April 2001

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