A fish stick by any other name…

OK, so, I made fish sticks and applesauce for Denizen dinner tonight. And yes, I’m calling ketchup a ‘vegetable’ and pretending that it is a healthy choice.

Because people…if you plate it right, even fish sticks are obviously a gourmet meal:



Actually, these aren’t half bad. They’re the Trident ‘Ultimate Fish Stick’, which are less bread and more fish. They aren’t the fish sticks you remember from your school cafeteria, folks.

And yes. They do taste better when the ketchup is in a swirly pattern instead of a glorp, and the applesauce provides a sweet counter-balance to the tangy bite of the ketchup and, uh, the, erm...sea-like sweet fishy-ness of the fish sticks.

(And thus do we see why I do not have a career ahead of me in culinary review. *sob, sob* another fine career opportunity, blighted!)

The Denizens were delighted by the presentation. DING DING DING!! She shoots, she scores!! Thank you, thank you, autographs available upon request...Now if I could just get them to quit fighting about whether it's a flower, a sun, or a starfish...

The husband and I, poor unfortunates that we are, are having leftover pork roast [lean pork loin roast coated in a rub of salt, cracked pepper, and ground cumin, draped with bacon slices and slow cooked for, uh, um, a whole day, (about eight hours? ish?) in the crockpot with a scant quarter cup of water for extra moisture] , treated a-la chicken salad with some mayo and a good brown mustard and diced pickles, broiled open-faced on homemade rye bread under a healthy slice of garlic gouda - a dish the Denizens have dubbed, "EWWWWW YUCK THAT'S GROSS GAG! GAG! GAG!!!!! {fall on floor and pretend to die to death because it is Just So AWFUL!!}"