How NOT To Make Pacific Cod Fillet In 2021!

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Seriously, don’t do what I do – learn from my mistakes regarding cooking Wild Pacific Cod Fillet

Lately, I’ve been trying to switch it up in my diet and I’m really trying to figure out what makes me feel good and what doesn’t. I write my workout summary and my meal summary every night, and although it may seem cumbersome at first, you really start to notice trends regarding how you feel and react to certain stressors/meals/workouts.

I’ve lately noticed that wild fish actually makes me feel better as opposed to farmed fish.

Case in point being Salmon.

I love me some Fresh Farmed Atlantic Salmon – very fatty and delicious, but in terms of protein and nutritional value, it is inferior to the Wild Alaskan Salmon that you can find in supermarkets like WholeFoods or Trader Joe’s.

I literally wake up feeling good when I eat wild fish and veggies for dinner. I don’t feel the need to snooze my alarm five times in the morning. I don’t feel like it’s hard to open my eyes to adjust to the room when I turn the lights on. I don’t dread my day. I don’t find going to the bathroom to brush my teeth tiring. The crazy part about this? It’s very subtle – it doesn’t feel like a big BURST of energy, but more like the energy is constant.

Think of a Sinusoidal Wave and how it goes up and down – that’s what your energy is like when you eat a crazy amount of carbohydrates. When you eat Whole Foods like veggies and wild fish, my energy feels like the horizontal line in the middle – at like a constant steady pace. I find myself productive at this steady pace.

I still haven’t figured out a way on how to cook Pacific Cod Fillet in a way that tastes good, but here is how you DON’T want to.

Ingredients:

  • 1 Tbsp Kerrygold butter
  • Sprinkles of salt and pepper
  • Wild Pacific Cod Fillet – From Whole Foods
  • 1/2 Organic Lemon
  • Organic Peeled Garlic
  • Parsley

Instructions:

  1. Heat up dutch oven on medium high heat for a few minutes.
  2. Season Pacific Cod Fillet with salt and pepper – my mistake was I was conservative with the seasoning – I should’ve added spices like paprika and chili powder for that extra flavor. I only added a few sprinkles of salt. Take your 1/2 squirt of lemon
  3. Slice up a table spoon of butter, then put on dutch oven. If you did this right then it’ll be sizzling
  4. Using some tongs, place your fish in the dutch oven. If you did everything above right, the fish should sizzle also when placed on the pan.
  5. Take some peeled cloves of garlic, put em in the dutch oven along with the fish.
  6. Cover the dutch oven with a lid. Big mistake – what this is going to do is cause the steam that comes as a function of the heating of the dutch oven/fish to condense, effectively creating a huge layer of water underneath the cover. This will make your fish watery. I haven’t figured out the secret to cooking a Dutch Oven without dealing with the condensing effect of steam hitting the surface of the lid…Maybe it’s required to cook at lower heat – will experiment, keep on checking in to see when I figure out how to cook Wild Pacific Cod Fillet.
  7. Cover for about 6 minutes. I assumed this would cook through the heat retention effect provided by the dutch oven, but this doesn’t seem like an efficient way to cook and keep the flavor.
  8. Take it out, put it on a plate. You can make some roasted potatoes on the side and add that to your dish – a recipe to come on that soon. Want to stay lean while eating food like French Fries all the time? Hint – look into roasted potatoes – drizzle a good amount of Olive Oil on some boiled potatoes and cook them in the oven – a recipe to come on this as well.
How my dish turned out…Don’t do what I did! Looks good, but really flavorless!

I hadn’t really thought of buying Wild Pacific Cod at the market, when I think of fish, I could only think of salmon for the longest time. Don’t know why, salmon just seemed like a staple, and I realize how narrow minded I was. Fast forward to today. I’m trying Wild Pacific Cod for the first time. Is it good? No. Will I let it discourage me from making it again? No. I’m going to keep trying till I find whatever works for me and share it all with you.

Upcoming Recipes:

  • Oven Roasted Potatoes
  • Chicken Sandwich

BONUS:

If you’ve been reading all over the “Diet” section of the website, you might notice that I can be all talk and just go on and on about how the diet framework I undergo keeps me lean, but I’ve never really showed you guys.

Well, today’s your lucky day.

Here is proof that my diet works for me – as this was taken today (2/23/2021)

For a frame of reference, this was taken during COVID times (Gyms being closed) and all I do for exercise nowadays is either run, lift weights at home, surf, or grappling with friends:

Picture was taken after the Wild Pacific Cod dinner – a great meal to add to your framework

BONUS PART 2:

Check out Anabolic Cooking! The recipes presented are all about what my diet framework is like – high quality, delicious meals, lower in calories, but high in protein. Great for keeping your full, lean, and most importantly, satisfied. Calorie deficits are hard enough as it is – making you feel so deprived and “hangry” all the time. Don’t diet the wrong way! Check out the recipe!