Cooking With Rockstars

Neal Pollack's Simple Seafood Soup

Ingredients

• 1 lb. mixed fish
• 4 cups chicken stock
• 1 small can (14 oz.) diced tomatoes
• 1 chopped onion
• 2 chopped celery stalks
• 4 crushed and chopped garlic cloves
• 3-4 sprigs thyme, whole
• 2 bay leaves
• 2 spiral orange peel
• Generous splash Pernod
• Splash of white wine
• Salt & pepper

Instructions

1. Simmer stock and tomatoes in soup pot.
2. Meanwhile, in separate pot, saute in olive oil the onion, celery, garlic, thyme, bay leaves, and orange peel, with Pernod and wine. When vegetables are soft, add stock.
3. When stock simmers, add fish. Lay fish carefully into pot to poach.
4. You can add shrimp and scallops in place of, or in addition to, fish.