In an ideal world, my house would smell like Neimann Marcus. By the entrance of Neimann Marcus from Galleria is a huge Jo Malone section, hence the heavenly smell. I don’t have enough financial artillery to have Jo Malone candles all over this beast of a house, so that thought will just be tucked away in a folder in my mind labeled, “You Wish!”

Out of all the kitchen smells, fish is the one that I despise most. So all my fish dishes are usually grilled (outdoors) or as soup (heavy pot with an even heavier lid to trap cooking-fish smell). Here is one variation that doesn’t involve frying or sautéing fish.    It’s called Fish En Papillote.

Roughy translated, fish en papillote means “fish in paper”. Fish, along with herbs and vegetables, is wrapped in parchment paper, then baked. This enables all the flavors to come together and saturate the fish. And because it is sealed, the cooking-fish smell is almost non-existent.

Assemble ingredients in a big piece of parchment paper.

There are many ways to seal off the paper. The whole idea is that it should be closed in so that steam does not escape.

This is fish dish is not only healthy; it is also nose-approved!!! Dinner is ready.