Sole

Sole a la meunière. In the style of the miller's wife. Presumably she would always have flour on hand. On account of that being her husband's trade. 

If it were in the style of the exterminator's wife then we could expect it to have something like rat poisoning in it. If it were in the style of the Air Force pilot's wife then we could expect the plate to be thrown like a Frisbee to the table, and if it were in the style of a lawyer's wife then we can expect the whole thing to be litigated. And so on. But this is flour. Because of the meunière thing.

Let's go to the miller's house and watch what the lady is doing.

She's rolling the fish in flour. That's all. No big deal. She is actually not all that imaginative. No wine. No sauce. No mushrooms. No lemon. No capers. No parsley. No tarragon. Nothing at all that is the slightest bit French. The miller's wife is actually a big fat dud.

If only there were some lemons around here someplace. I could do something with those.

Ew. This cucumber is gross.

I read in a book, perhaps on the internet, that cucumbers begin deteriorating at the stem edge. Like there are enzymes in there that become active when the cucumber is cut from the vine.

This pepper right here is the worst crap in the world. 

You could shove the whole box up your nose and you wouldn't even sneeze and your eyes wouldn't even water. You could put five rounded tablespoonfuls on a fried egg, completely cover the white and the yellow with black pepper, and not even taste it. That is how lame it is.

So I threw it away.

And bought new peppercorns for the weird little Turkish coffee grinder.

Conclusion: Terrible. 

So lame I can't even stand it. Thoughtless spice mixture in the flour. I just used the spices I had right there already out of the cabinet assuming that anything I did would be great. Guess what. It isn't.

You can't just put grated garlic and ginger on fish. That is too gross. Too intense. Too clumsy. Come on. What was I thinking?

I was thinking, "Man, I sure am lazy right now." 

That's why I blew the whole thing.

All I wanted was regular fish.

But.

You know what  would fix the whole thing?

Use the strange little bottle of Balsamic vinegar that looks foreign, maybe a little bit aged, it is dark, thick and sweet. Use that instead of this aged soy sauce. That would be sweetly tart exchanged for mildly salted. That would make the whole thing 100% different.