Oven Baked Halibut Steaks

easiness personified:

1) Have friend go to Alaska, fish for week and return with several halibut steaks as a present.
2) Thaw the fish in the fridge and don't do it under hot water, or i will personally hunt you down. This cooks the fish, which you don't want to happen.

pre-heat oven to 400deg.

Lay down a foil about the size of 2/3 of your oven pan. I will add about .5 tblspn of olive oil onto the foil, spread around such that you cover the cooking surface, the size of your steak!

Now stack the following on the foil. I will take a lemon, and slice it width-wise, such that you end up with circle slice of lemon. remember, as thinly as possible, always. Assume that i mean this every time you slice something, unless i note otherwise. then place the halibut steak on top. add a little salt, some pepper and thinly sliced/diced basil. I suggest thai basil, but italian suffices. Next, slice tomatoes in the same way you did with the lemons (heirloom tomatoes aka as ugly, are magical for this dish), but make the slices around 1cm-1.2cm thick. Place the slices on top of the halibut.

Roll up the foil into a sealed bag way. wherein the fish is in the center and you roll up the sides. Place in oven and its takes around 20-30min, depending on your oven. Check after 18min, and take a fork, stick into the steak. if you can move the fish cleanly apart from itself, this indicates cooked.

the beauty of this dish, aside from its ease, is how the liquid from the tomatoes infuses its way downward into the halibut, along with the basil!

most definitely GO.