Old Fashion Potato Bread

This is a great tasting bread that I tried from one of my grandmother's cooking skills.

Ingredients: 

• 1 serving instant potatoes made according to directions (my grandmother used to run potatoes through a hand grounding machine - like grounding meat!)
• 1 pkg active dry yeast
• 1 cup water
• 1 tbsp spoon sugar
• 1 tsp sea salt
• 1/4 cup butter (margarine) softened + 1 tbsp melted
• 3 3/4 cups bread flour + 1/4 cup in case dough is too wet

You can put everything in a bread machine according to the machine instructions and choose "dough" setting. Remove dough and place it in a large greased bowl and cover with a towel and let it rise until double in size at 85F (about 1 hour). Roll dough into a 16 x 8 in rectangle and then roll up from one end pinching the ends and tucking under loaf. Place loaf in a greased or Pam sprayed loaf pan. Brush surface with melted butter and let it rise until top of loaf is higher that loaf pan and rounded. Meanwhile preheat oven to 400F. Bake for 30 - 40 min until deep golden brown and bottom of loaf sounds hollow when tapped. Let it cool on a wire rack and enjoy it. Makes one loaf.  

Chinese Sweet-and-Sour Fish

For this dish you need to use fresh fish. I guess you have to go fishing! Fresh fish is better than the one sold in the grocery store, but if you can't get any fresh, ask your local grocery store to sell you the freshest one. The fish could be a sea bass, porgies or any other salt water fish in this category (not Mahi Mahi or any bill fish or tuna). This dish will be good for four servings.

Ingredients: To cook the fish:

• 4 sea bass about 3/4 lbs each cleaned 
• 1 tsp salt
• Flour
• Vegetable oil

Ingredients for the sauce:

• 1 cup pineapple juice
• 2 tbls tomato ketchup
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup distilled white vinegar
• 1 tsp soy sauce
• 4 1/4 tsp cornstarch 

Cooking the fish: After washing and drying the fish with a paper towel, sprinkle evenly with salt and dust with the flour. Shake of any excess of flour. Pour vegetable oil about 1"  deep in a frying pan and heat the oil to about 350 F. Deep the fish in the hot oil and cook about 5 min on each side or until golden brown. Transfer the cooked fish in a oven safe bowl or plate lined with paper towel to absorb the grease. Place the plate in the oven set to keep warm.

Prepare the sauce: Mix the 3/4 cup pineapple juice with ketchup, sugar, vinegar and soy sauce in a heat resistan bowl. Bring to a boil over high heat. In a small bowl dissolve the cornstarch in the remaining pineapple juice and stir in the boiling sauce. Stirring constantly keep boiling the sauce until it is clear and thick enough to coat a spoon heavily.

Place the fish on a serving plate and pour the sauce over them. Enjoy!