First post!!!! Yaay! Wow…when I look back at the date I created this blog, tsk tsk tsk…such a shame.
Anyway, to brighter things…I often read recipes or watch cooking shows, now I find that the “done in” time is a bit if not entirely ridiculous, how am I supposed to chop veggies etc AND cook and be done in that amount of time?
Take the following clip for example, Gordon shows how you can prepare a meal in 12 minutes….riiiight, notice that everything is in place the onions are prepped as are most of the other ingredients and hey! the water is already boiling 
When I say 15 minutes, I mean 15 minutes, my knife skills aren’t super and it takes more than 5 minutes for water to boil but if I’m pressed for time and need to cook I really can’t have a 15 minute recipe take me half an hour. I had no intentions of cooking yesterday, I ate some cold leftovers from the night before and would have left it at that had I not felt REALLY hungry when we were at the supermarket (go figure) a couple of hours later, this is what I did and it took literally 15 minutes. Tomatoes are in season now so they were sweet, just bursting with flavour and the garlic, parsley and lemon juice made for a wonderful symphony.
Tomato-Herb Tilapia & Brown Butter Noodles
Ingredients:
6 Tilapia fillets, rinsed
Handful of flat leaf parsley
3 cloves of garlic
3 plummy tomatoes
Juice of 1/2 a lemon
Olive oil, salt & black pepper as needed
Instant noodles
A hearty knob of butter
Method:
1. Fill a pot with water for the noodles, add some salt and oil if desired and set to boil.
2. Preheat oven to 180C
3. Meanwhile, smash the garlic and chop finely, roughly chop the parsley and dice the tomatoes; toss together.
4. On a baking sheet lay out a sheet of foil and place fillets skin side down. Sprinkle with the lemon juice, oil, salt and black pepper, then the parsley mixture and more olive oil if desired.
4. Using another piece of foil cover the fish and seal the edges (kinda like a big envelope). Place in oven and bake for about 8-12 minutes.
5. Back to the noodles, place the desired amount of noodles in the boiling water. Meanwhile, melt the butter in a small saucepan and cook till fragrant and nutty brown in colour.
6. Drain the noodles, put back in pot and toss with butter.
7. Serve!
