ROASTED COD WITH BACON AND LEEKS

Steps:

• 1. In large skillet, cook bacon mod low heat until lightly colored and most of fat rendered, ~10 minutes. Transfer to plate. 2. Pour off all but 2 TBL of fat. Add celery and onion, cook mod heat until tender, ~8 minutes. Add garlic and cook, stirring, until fragrant. Increase heat to mod high and add spinach. Season with salt and pepper and cook, stirring, until wilted and excess liquid evaporates, ~4 minutes. 3. Transfer spinach mix to bowl and add diced bread, bacon, parsley, thyme, tarragon. Mix well and season with salt and pepper. Let cool to room temperature. 4. Preheat 425°. Season cod inside and out with salt and pepper, rub 2 TBL olive oil all over outside of fish. Open fish and sprinkle inside with lemon juice, then fill with stuffing; press gently to close. Using a sturdy needle and thread or toothpicks inserted vertically to pin fish together. Transfer to oiled rack. 5. In large roasting pan, toss leeks and fennel with 2 TBL olive oil, salt, pepper. Spread vegetables in even layer and set cod on rack on top. Roast in center of oven ~25 minutes. 6. In large bowl, whip cream to soft peaks. Beat in horseradish, season with salt/pepper; refrigerate. 7. Remove roasting pan from oven and pour wine around fish. Sprinkle with red pepper and arrange clams around cod, hinges down. Return to oven and roast ~15 minutes longer, until cod is cooked through and clams are open; remove clams as they open. Cover opened clams with foil. 8. When cod done, remove pan, preheat broiler. Remove all open clams from pan; discard unopened. Broil cod ~2 minutes to crisp skin, rotating pan. 9. Cut fish into serving pieces. Spoon fennel and leeks onto plates and top with cod and stuffing. Spoon roasting juices and clams over top. Pass horseradish cream at table. Stuffing can be refrigerated for up to 1 day. Stuffed cod can be refrigerated for ~4 hours before cooking.