Sole Meuniere and Mushroom Risotto

Family dinner night!

After trying to avoid serving fish I ran out of satisfactory and new vegetarian ideas for family dinner and so this is what I settled on. It's been a while since I ate sole but I remembered it to be less gross than it's other fishy counterparts so it seemed a safe bet. Also, anything with a brown butter sauce can't be that bad.

Oh Katie Lee, why are you so pretty and an awesome chef? You make me jealous.

We used her recipe, found through Pinterest.

Our sole fillets were much smaller than Ms. Lee's but we got like 8 in a package so it evened out.

Dredged in flour, fried in butter. Yum! 

There is only one picture of this process because almost immediately after I started trying to flip them, they started to fall apart. Each fillet turned into like one large and four mini fillets. Super frustrating.

See? Ugh. At least it didn't smell like the bottom of the ocean.

Oh hey, risotto. 

When I showed my mom this recipe, she said, "isn't risotto hard?"

It's not, but it takes foreverrrrrrrr. I kind of forgot how tedious it is. Luckily for me, mom took a nap while I made it… thanks, Mom!

Danielle was early! Yay! I hate cleaning mushrooms.

This was basically my (or my sister's) view for the next 30 minutes. It's not so much that it's hard to add half a cup of broth every few minutes while stirring constantly, it's just that it's annoying and difficult to do this while flipping fish.

Success! 

I forgot where I was supposed to add the parsley to this recipe, so I just threw it on top once it was on the table. That's the same thing, right?

Nothing's burnt!

I also quickly threw together some green beans, roasted with olive oil, garlic, and lemon.

So while the sole wasn't as fishy tasting as most fish, it did leave the kitchen smelling fishy after and I couldn't eat it the next day as the fish smell got worse. Actually not a bad way to eat fish. I feel like this review is quite biased… Everyone else liked it so I guess try it!

The risotto was great. I can't imagine when I'd made it again, though. Maybe when you're doing some slow-cooker stuff? Now that I think about it, it would probably go really well with the garlic chicken. You shouldn't make this when making anything else at all. It was complicated to even check on the green beans or stir those so they wouldn't burn while simultaneously stirring the risotto. Helpers are great! (Thanks, Danielle!)

Stuck to the script: I think like 98% because I probably didn't fry the fish long enough or measure the butter to fry it in.