Archive for the 'Fish' Category
Smoked Salmon
Yesterday we bought a really nice piece of salmon from our fishmonger and today we smoked it on the barbecue. Accompanied by smoked corn and crushed new potatoes. The salmon was really good, but not hugely smoky. Next time we’ll try a thinner piece and remove the skin from the bottom to get more smoke […]
Read More..>>Fish Braai
Another sunny and warm weekend so another barbeque. Two actually. On Saturday, we picked up some prawns, a rainbow trout, a red mullet and a sea bream to barbeque. The prawns were marinated in olive oil, lime, chilli and garlic. The other fishes were brushed with oil and stuffed with rosemary, lemon and bay. It […]
Read More..>>Salmon with Salsa Verde
The warm weather is definitely having an affect on our eating habits. No longer are we craving casserole or pie but instead lighter, fresher food. Tonight we went for salmon with salsa verde and salad. The salsa verde was just mint, parsley, capers, anchovies and garlic all pounded up and spread between the pieces of […]
Read More..>>First Barbecue Of The Year
This Easter weekend saw the temperature in London reach 20 degrees. To celebrate, Stephen and I barbecued. To start with, we had prawns marinated in garlic, chilli, oil and lime juice: We followed this with garlic and rosemary lamb chops, corn on the cob, roasted butternut with spinach and feta and salad: It was all […]
Read More..>>Scallops and Paella
Tonight’s starter was scallops with chorizo. We fried the chorizo off first, then the scallop roe and finally the scallops themselves. Served as above. Yum 🙂 To continue the fishy theme, we then made a seafood paella with prawns, mussels and clams: It was very tasty, and there was rice, you just can’t see it […]
Read More..>>Prawns, Steak and Dauphinoise Potatoes
Tonight, we had a mini feast. We started with tiger prawns (the last four in the shop) marinated in oil, garlic, lemon and chilli; then fried. This was followed by two really big rib-eye steaks, seasoned with pepper then cooked medium rare: We served these with dauphinoise potatoes: It was all brilliant, and there are […]
Read More..>>Vietnamese and Laotian Food for Chinese New Year
For Chinese new year, we decided to cook Vietnamese and Laotian food. Makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? I realised that we had our ingredients laid out a little like the “store cupboard” photograph that seems standard fodder for the introduction section of many cookbooks, so I took a picture: First course was squid served with […]
Read More..>>Mussels
We’ve been meaning to make this for ages but, for some reason, haven’t got round to it. I’m glad we finally did though because it was really tasty and so simple. Fry onions (or shallots) in some butter, add the mussels with some wine and garlic. Cook for about four minutes. Remove mussels, turn up […]
Read More..>>Valentine Dinner
Kerri and I planned a Valentine’s dinner – she planned the starter and dessert and I planned the main course. We only found out what each other had planned when we started preparing it on the day. Very exciting! First was scallops with chorizo and salad leaves. These went well together; maybe the chorizo could […]
Read More..>>Flaked Baked Salmon with Pasta and Roasted Cherry Tomatoes
Another quick dinner, this time one that we made up ourselves. We roasted the salmon with a little tomato pesto on it. Then we stirred some more tomato pesto into the cooked pasta before adding the flaked salmon, roasted cherry tomatoes, parsely and lemon juice. F
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