Two food words I would not expect to see together are fish and chili. Yet there they were when I flipped through a cookbook I received today. After reading the recipe I am still of the opinion that they do not belong together! And what is with the dill? In chili, gross!
Fish Chili
1-1/2 cups finely chopped onion
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 diced roasted bell pepper
2 tablespoons chili powder
1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
1/2 teaspoons crushed red pepper flakes
1-1/2 tablespoons ground cumin
2 cups fish stock or clam juice
4 cups cooked, drained kidney beans
1-1/2 pounds fish fillet
1 lemon, zested
2 tablespoons fresh dill, chopped
In a large pan cook the onion and garlic in oil until softened. Add the pepper and spices except for dill and lemon zest. Cook for 1 minute, stirring constantly. Add stock or juice and bring to a boil. Add beans and the fish which has been cut into large chunks and simmered 5 minutes. Add the zest and juice of the lemon and dill, simmer 1 minute more.
Recipe from: Fifty Ways To Cook Most Everything
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Odd and weird recipes from my large cookbook collection.
Weird Recipe Origins
While persuing my many cookbooks, adverstising booklets and cooking magazines I sometimes come across a recipe where I truely wonder what the originator was thinking. Sometimes they just sound like a terrible combination of ingredients. Other times it is what I call, the ingredient that doesn't belong. This is usually a food company trying to promote the use of their product in an inappropriate recipe. Recipes that might have found favor in past decades are sometimes so out of date they seem weird now.
About Me
- Rochelle R.
- Collecting cookbooks and recipes has been my hobby for over 35 years. I especially like vintage and advertising cookbooks and have over 1,000. I have a degree in Home Economics.
My collection
I have a large collection of several thousand cookbooks. I am most interested in vintage cookbooks and product adverstising books. A lot of these have recipes that we would now consider weird or odd.