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One of my best meals ever, was at Commander’s Palace in New Orleans. Filet of Sole en Papiotte with a Buerre Blanc Sauce (fish w/ butter sauce in parchment paper – to the rest of us). I urge all of you to buy yourself a roll of parchment paper, if you haven’t already. Bake cookies and rolls on parchment to prevent burning, but even better, bake fish or poultry in a parchment wrap to keep it sinfully moist and to avoid washing dirty pans!
I found fresh halibut on sale – when does that ever happen? – and knew Griffin, my protein-averse-in-a-veggie-rut son, would complain. This presentation did the trick – I told him it was Seafood Surprise. He ate red peppers and zucchini with the halibut and I only had to use one teaspoon of butter. And, he got a free facial steambath.

Halibut en Papiotte or SeafoodSurprise (recipe)
Fish – halibut, salmon, etc. (for God’s sake, buy it on sale) Julienne slice carrots, red peppers, onions and zucchini. Note: I leave out the center seed portion of the zucchini for cooking because it tends to get mushy. Use vegetables you have on-hand making sure to pre-saute tougher vegetables before baking.
Saute carrots, onions and red peppers until slightly tender – you can do this on the weekend and save time. Do not saute the zucchini before baking, again with the mushy factor.

Tear off a large piece of parchment paper and fold it in half. Add a serving of vegetables including the raw, julienned zucchini to one side of parchment close to the fold. Dollop 1/2 t. butter on top with s&p to taste (this is not the Standard & Poors). Layer on a serving a of fish and another 1/2 t. of butter and s&p. I added grated ginger (Bowling for Taste) to the top. Yum.

Wipe a thin layer of butter around the 3 edges of parchment and fold the other half of paper over the food and adhere to the butter edges. Roll up the edges to form a pouch.