Archive for the 'Fish/Seafood' Category
Angels on Horseback and Plaice with Nut-Brown Butter
Tonight we decided to cook ourselves a special dinner. Seeing as we are on holiday this week, we had some time to shop for ingredients today and start preparing early.
We were trying to think of dishes that would fit in well with British Food Fortnight, and after browsing various cook books, we ended up [...]
Janssen’s Temptation
This is one of those recipes that seems to have been following me around for a while which we finally got round to making this evening. Its a Swedish recipe and is usually part of a smorgasbord, served with cold meats and fish. Also traditionally served at Christmas and/or Easter.
Unfortunately, I tried to [...]
Pizza
Our dough turned out a bit too thick again but it was a definite improvement on last time. Garlic bread followed by salami, olive, pepper and rocket for me; tuna, anchovy, olive and pepper for Fred.
Read More..>>Stir Fried Scallops
A recent comment on this post made us remember that we’d really loved this recipe and should cook it again.
We put in quite a few vegetables this time - green beans, baby corn and some shredded cabbage to use up what was in the fridge. It didn’t look as good because the pale cabbage [...]
Baked Mackerel and Poor Man’s Potatoes
Yesterday we bought some whole mackerel and planned to do something interesting with it this evening. We have loads of thyme growing in our garden so we thought we’d use up some of that and Ginger found a really good sounding recipe. However, when we got home and started making it, we found [...]
Read More..>>Thai Monday: Lemongrass Beef and Tom Yum Goong
As it was a Bank Holiday today and we had plenty of time, we decided to cook some Thai dishes. We’ve done the lemongrass beef several times before and it’s one of our favourites. To go with it we decided on Tom Yum Goong.
Both dishes are quick to prepare which makes a refreshing [...]
Smoked Mackerel Risotto
I picked this up last weekend intending to use it in salads for lunch throughout the week, that didn’t happen though so it was left lurking in the fridge. Since making stock last weekend, I’ve had a risotto craving so I thought I would use the mackerel up tonight and satisfy my craving at [...]
Read More..>>Party
You’d be forgiven for thinking that things have been a bit quiet around here lately. Both Fred and I were out on Thursday and regrettably there was no food involved, only wine. And mojitos. For that reason, Friday saw us give in to the temptation of the supermarket pizza. As you [...]
Read More..>>Smoked Salmon Fishcakes and Salad
This evening we had some fish cakes that we’d made previously and frozen. They were very good - the fish was hot-smoked salmon and the potatoes had been baked in the oven. The smoked salmon gave the fish cakes a wonderful flavour; sometimes poached fish gets lots amongst the potatoes.
Read More..>>Cod with Chermoulla and Salad
Something quick and relatively easy last night. Ginger clipped a few recipes from magazines recently and we went through them and selected this one.
I don’t have the recipe here, but we combined these ingredients in certain quantities: garlic, fresh chilli, paprika, ground cumin, salt, lemon juice, olive oil and chopped mint. Some of [...]