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½ cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons chopped sweet pickles
2 tablespoons chopped red onion
1 ½ teaspoons lemon juice
¼ teaspoon garlic powder
Four 7 ounce tilapia fillets
Olive oil, for brushing
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper
1 to 2 loaves French Bread
2 medium beefsteak tomatoes, cut into 8 slices
4 leaves romaine lettuce

Prepare a grill.
Combine the mayonnaise, pickles, onion, lemon juice, and garlic powder in a small bowl. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use.
Brush the tilapia fillets with some olive oil and season them with the salt and black pepper. Cut the bread into four 7 inch sections, then halve each section lengthwise.
Put the fish on the grill. Grill, turning once, until the fish is cooked through, about 6 minutes. Lay the bread on the grill, cut side down and grill until toasted, about 1 minute.
For 1 sandwich, layer 1 tilapia fillet on the bottom slice of bread, followed by 2 slices of tomato and 1 lettuce leaf. Spread the top slice of bread with 2 tablespoons of the tartar sauce and cover the sandwich. Repeat with remaining bread and filling.
Arrange on a serving platter and serve.
Serves 4.

Alternative to tartar sauce: Mike’s Lemon Dill Mustard

24 fresh basil leaves
12 thin slices of prosciutto, each cut in half lengthwise
24 extra large shrimp, peeled and deveined (sea scallops can be substituted)
24 bamboo skewers, soaked in water for at least 30 minutes before grilling

GARLIC DIPPING SAUCE ingredients:
1/3 cup red wine vinegar
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
1 large clove garlic, chopped
1 cup olive oil

Place one basil leaf at the short end of a slice of prosciutto and a shrimp on top of the basil. Roll the shrimp in the prosciutto, then thread lengthwise onto a skewer. Repeat with the remaining basil, prosciutto, and shrimp. Place the skewers on a baking sheet and refrigerate until ready to cook.

To make the sauce, combine the vinegar, mustard, and garlic in a food processor or blender. With the machine running, add the olive oil in a slow, steady stream. Process until combined. Ten to 15 minutes before you are ready to grill, spoon about one-third of the sauce over the shrimp skewers to marinate. Transfer the rest of the dipping sauce to a small bowl.
Prepare a medium hot fire in a gril. Grill the shrimp, turning often, until opaque, about 6 minutes.
Arrange the cooked skewers on a platter and serve with the dipping sauce on the side.
Serves 8

Fresh Sole Fillets
Butter
Nabisco Ritz Crackers – very fine crumbs
Lemon Juice
Wax Paper
Fresh Grated Parmesan Cheese

This recipe can be used for any amount of sole fillets. Adjust the amount of butter and Nabisco Ritz Cracker crumbs to the amount of Sole Fillets you have. Using a rolling pin or other utensil, crush the Nabisco Ritz Crackers until you have very fine crumbs. Usually one sleeve will do one pound of sole fillets. Put in a pie plate or other flat dish or bowl.

Wash and dry the fresh sole fillets
Mix a dash of fresh lemon juice with the melted butter. 1 teaspoon to 1 stick of butter is a good ratio.
Ladle a tablespoon of the butter/lemon juice mixture in the bottom of a glass baking dish. Spread evenly.
Dip the Sole Fillet into the butter/lemon juice mixture.
Coat the buttered Sole Fillet with the Nabisco Ritz Cracker crumbs.
On wax paper, sprinkle 1 teaspoon of grated parmesan cheese on the fillet. Loosely roll up the fillet. Place the rolled fillet into the glass baking dish.
Continue until all fillets are coated and in the glass baking dish. Fillets cook best if they are not too crowded in the pan.
Add 1 tablespoon of water to the bottom of the baking dish. Do not pour directly onto the fish.
Cover with aluminum foil.
Bake at 450 degrees until the fillets flake with a fork. Normally 15 – 20 minutes to bake. Do not undercook.