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Pesce alla Marinara su Orzo

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Pesce alla Marinara su Orzo Many cultures have dishes that revolve around some kind of seafood being cooked in a tomato sauce.   Sometimes the dishes are stews, sometimes they are a soup, other times the dish is a braise or poach of some sort.   For this dish I wanted to do something different.   I was not in the mood for a soup or stew.   I also wanted to use food I had on hand to avoid a trip to the grocery store. I had Riverence Rainbow Trout on hand.   I have prepared their steel head and rainbow in a variety of ways that we have greatly enjoyed.   Still, I wanted to do something different. In the theme of fish cooked in tomato sauce, I have previously prepared steel head trout in a bouillabaisse style sauce and in a putanesca style sauce.   Thinking about these dishes launched me in the direction of fish in marinara sauce.   From there it was a function of deciding on the accompaniments.     We have used orzo in a variety of fish dishes and like it so it seemed a natura