Cook your way through the SATs

(WTNH) - Charis Freiman-Mendel tells has tips on how to cook your way through the SATs.

Freiman-Mendel wrote the cookbook, "Cook Your Way Through The SATs" as a 7th and 8th grade home school project to help me study for the SSAT., the standardized test she had to take for admission to traditional high school.

She had to research and write a "fun fact blurb," a short paragraph about each recipe. Each blurb had to include 10 vocabulary words. By the end of the book, she learned 1000 words and lots of fun facts.

The book has 99 recipes: 33 each for first course, main dish, and dessert.

Fish in Parchment
Serves 4

4 (6oz) cleaned, deboned, skinned white fish, any type
7 oz shiitake mushrooms
4 asparagus stems
2 leek bottoms
3 large garlic closed
2 tbsp honey
2 tbsp low sodium soy sauce
3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.

Thinly slice the mushrooms, asparagus, leeks and garlic.

Place 4 (11" x 15") pieces of parchment paper in a row on a hard surface with 1 piece of fish at the center of each. Evenly distribute the mushrooms, asparagus, leeks and garlic on each piece of fish.

Whisk together the honey, soy sauce, oil, salt and pepper and pour 1/4 of the mixture on each fish.

Carefully fold over and roll the top of the parchment and tuck each side under. Repeat this step for the remaining pouches. Line the pouches on a sheet pan and cook for 12-15 minutes.

Serve immediately.