Meal in a Pouch

I caught an Alton Brown show on the food network recently about pouch meals which was fascinating and peaked my interest with how easy it was to do. I decided to recreate his fish and cous cous pouch this week with ingredients that I had on hand. I also was out of parchment paper so I used aluminum foil.

Steamed Tilapia with Cous Cous(just quadruple the recipe for 4)
1 tilapia filet
1/4C Cous Cous
1/3C Chicken or Vege stock (or white wine)
1 clove garlic minced
1/4C sliced red onion
6 cherry or grape tomatoes sliced in half
1/4tsp thyme
lemon juice
dab of butter
salt and pepper (lemon pepper maybe?)

Heat oven to 425 degrees. I had 3 tilapia fillets so I tripled the ingredients and made 3 pouches. First cut a piece of tinfoil about 1 1/2' long. Rinse the cous cous and lay in the middle of the tin foil. Flatten a bit and lightly salt. Lay the tilapia fillet over the top of the cous cous. Lay the tomatoes around the egdes. Cover the fish with the chopped onion and garlic. Sprinkle with salt, pepper (lemon), thyme, a few squirts of lemon juice, and a dab of butter. Seal the aluminum foil so that there are no air holes. I folded it lengthwise and then up the sides. Bake for 20 minutes. Be careful when you open it up because you are going to want to nuzzle your nose in and take in the amazing aroma. However, the steam is super hot.

Oh wait, you wanted a touch of dessert too? Ok, here's a dessert pouch, again based on Alton's Brown recipe. He uses gingersnaps in his.

Fruit Pouch (use peaches, pears, plums, apples, whatever you have on hand)
1 apple (peeled and chopped)
1 pear (peeled and chopped)
2 TBL orange liqueur
1 TBL honey
1 TBL sugar (optional)
1/4tsp cinnamon (we love saigon cinnamon from Savory)
squirt of lemon juice
dollop of butter (I used less than 1/2 a TBL)

Place all the ingredients in a pouch. Hermetically seal your pouch and throw it in the oven while your dinner is cooking. Bake for about 20 minutes. This serves 2. Eat with 1/4C of real vanilla ice cream. Yum and it's only about 250 calories WITH the ice cream.