Beer Baked Trout and Savoy Cabbage

Ok, mommies:    Violet has gotten a bit picky with her food lately.  This is a new thing for us, as she has always been very adventurous with food, and honestly up until now the only thing she has refused to eat is zucchini (and, at one point, watermelon).  I blame the soon-to-be-coming birthday #3.  Age 3, I can already tell, is going to be an entirely new game.  It comes with a fairly strong will, hourly battles over wanting this and not wanting that,  along with sugar sweet moments of huge brown eyes staring into my soul as she says "mama, I love you SOOOO much!".  

Also, nightmares (but that, I think, is another post).  

Anyway, in our house we have never had much patience for picky eaters.  You eat what we make, and if you don't like it, then you can just not eat.  Ok, that's fine, except that if Violet doesn't eat much dinner then she doesn't sleep well at night (and our nights are hard enough as is without her waking up hungry in the wee hours of the morning).  So, really, getting her to eat dinner is a necessity for the sanity of the entire household.  

Well, tonight I made an easy and very tasty dinner that my girl loved!  Savoy cabbage pan fried in butter with caraway seeds and rosemary (and did I mention butter?), and trout, baked in beer.  --served with leftover cheesy mashed potatoes and a diced tomato salad (just to add a little color to this very british looking plate). 

Recipes?  Yes! Enjoy :)     

Beer Baked Trout 

2 trout 

1/2 bottle of light beer (I used Heineken) 

1 small yellow onion, thinly sliced 

2 cloves garlic chopped in half 

salt, pepper 

Heat over to 400F.  

Oil a large baking dish, and rinse and pat dry fish (inside and out).  

Place fish in baking dish and stuff with onions, garlic, salt and pepper.  

Pour beer over and inside fish.  

Cover baking dish with tin foil, and bake for about 15-20 minutes (until fish-skin peels off easily, and the meat flakes nicely with a fork).  

Serve with lemon to your toddler, being very very careful to pick out all of the little tiny bones.  If your toddler is like mine, she will eat almost the entirety of two whole trout in one sitting.  

Pan Fried Savoy Cabbage  

1 small savoy cabbage chopped into thin strips.   

2/3 stick butter 

2 Tbs olive oil 

1 yellow onion, thinly sliced 

1 Tbs roughly chopped rosemary

1 good shake of caraway seeds (maybe about 1/4 tsp?)   

Melt oil and butter in a large pan over med/low heat.  Add onion and rosemary, and cook until soft (around 10 minutes).  

Add cabbage, and stir fry over med/high heat for another 10 minutes, or until soft and slightly caramelized.  Add caraway seeds, and cook for about 1 minute more. Add salt and pepper to taste.