Tasty local dinner: Trout, potatoes, and salad

I had time on Saturday for cooking projects, so I made dinner using a good chunk of my recent local food order.

I had a couple fillets of farm-raised trout.  Since I'm not very experienced cooking fish, I wanted to keep things simple.  Using Joy of Cooking for guidance, I prepared it as follows:

• Preheat broiler and line a baking sheet with foil.
• Put trout fillets (2 of them, about 5.5 oz each) skin side down on baking sheet.  Brush with 1-2 TBS melted unsalted butter.  Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
• Broil until opaque in the thickest part of fillet, starting to check for doneness after 4 minutes.
• Squeeze lemon juice over fillets.  Serve with additional lemon slices for squeezing.

This cooking method was easy and turned out really well.  I would definitely do this again for thin fish fillets.

I also had a half dozen small to medium purple-skinned potatoes.  Amusingly, the skins looked brown before I washed them, and brown again after I cooked them, so I only saw the purple for a short time.  I wanted to make a potato recipe that involved parboiling fingerling potatoes and then finishing them in a skillet with seasonings, but these potatoes were too big.  I modified the idea as follows.

• Put potatoes in a saucepan and cover with water to 1" above top of potatoes.  Bring to a boil.  Boil until mostly cooked through (as determined by poking with a fork), about 20 minutes.  It might be necessary to remove smaller potatoes sooner.
• Slice potatoes into wedges a little thicker than steak fries.
• Saute potato wedges in a skillet with olive oil, 2 garlic cloves (minced), rosemary (leaves from 1 small sprig), and salt and pepper.  Cook until cooked through and starting to crisp in places.

The rosemary was from my garden, so I get bonus points for that.

Finally, I made a salad with hydroponically grown Bibb lettuce and pea shoots, tossed with a simple vinaigrette.  My husband isn't fond of strongly flavored greens, but the Bibb lettuce was mild enough.  I expect that's largely because it's hydroponic.  Even baby spring mix is too strong for him whenever I've grown it myself or bought it from local growers (although he's okay with salad-in-a-bag from the grocery store).  A quick web search turns up a lot of pages claiming that hydroponic gardening is environmentally friendly, so I will call this a success.