Lunch Special: Trout or Red Snapper Vera Cruz Fantastico!

We only occasionally offer lunch specials. It’s just our philosophy that we have a varied and fun menu and that is what we concentrate on. But, every so often, we get a special price or some items ordered for a banquet meal are not used. So it was today!! Man, were we lucky!!

Yesterday, there were about 15 mountain trout and about 15 orders of Red Snapper not used for a banquet and Line Cook Fred Carrillo (we call him Skinny Fred. The other Fred, we just call Fred) came up with a beautiful Vera Cruz sauce to top the fish. Perfection. Just tangy enough with chile, a beautiful tomato base and tender strips of onion and bell pepper.

Yesterday, we sold all 13 orders for Lunch and the last 2 were gone by 6:00 PM!! Many compliments to Skinny Fred!! We are so proud of him and his abilities with food. He has the – not Midas Touch but, maybe the – Emeril Touch with seafood.

I just tasted the Red Snapper today and the sauce is even better today than it was yesterday!! Now, the Red Snapper – if anyone has been fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, you know there are like 6 kinds of fish called Red Snapper – is not the endangered species so overfished as to almost wipe them out. This is one of the fish the catchers used to just throw away!!! But, necessity is the mother of invention and when the standard Red Snapper fish started disappearing, this fish looked better and better!!

The standard Red Snapper is actually a pretty fish and this Red Snapper is not so pretty…alright, it’s a really ugly fish….but it does have that red sheen to it’s skin and scales and the white, tender flesh is wonderful for a spicy sauce.

Just had to tell you about Skinny Fred’s accomplishment with a great Vera Cruz sauce!!