Welcome back to the Tuesday Trout Diaries! It’s a series of emails I sent my dad after our Charter Fishing Trip to Duluth last summer. I was trying out approximately one new recipe each week since I’m not in the habit of cooking fish and I wanted to make sure none of our haul went to waste.

Each week, after the diary entry, you’ll see how I adapted the recipe to make it my own and to cook just for me.

In case you missed them, here are the past installments:

• Fire-Roasted Tomato Poached Trout for One
• Creamy Baked Trout for One
• Trout with Garlic Lemon Butter Sauce for One

And my next email:

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Date: 8/2/17
From: Carrie
To: Dad
Subject: Trout Recipe of the Week!

This was probably my favorite preparation so far, but for three reasons – 1) It was so EASY, 2) it was light and refreshing, 3) I lucked out with this fillet: I didn’t have/notice any bones! 

I guess I wanted to try out this basic Foil Packet Grilled Fish Recipe in case I can’t figure out how I want to prepare my salmon when I have the girls over next week. Of course, I quartered the recipe to account for my one 6-oz filet. I used rosemary, oregano and thyme from my herb pot. I served it with a side of Roasted Radishes. I had no idea you could roast them! I got some from the farmer’s market last week, but they started getting soft and I knew I wanted to save them. I cut of the ends, put them in an ice water bath yesterday. Then today, I used the recipe below to roast them!

I’m attaching a photo of my lunch to the end of this email as well. (I only needed about a 1/2 Tbsp of olive oil for the # of radishes you see in the photo. They lose their bite, but are so good and so easy!!)

Carrie