Recipe of the month

Holiday Fish Pie

A fast and filling fish dish for hungry children and adults alike

             Serves 4

Ingredients

1 1/2 lb potatoes or use instant if you are short of time follow instructions provided

1 lb white fish, skinned and boned

1/2 pt each of milk and water, mixed

4 slices of lemon

Chopped fresh parsley

A bouquet garni (optional)

Salt and pepper to taste

4 oz hard cheese, grated

a knob of butter

What you will need

1 medium pan (potatoes)

1 frying pan (fish poaching)

1 fireproof dish

Note anything in bold can be done any time previously and stored in the fridge until needed later

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Method

Peel and evenly cut the potatoes rinse place in the medium pan and add to cold salted water to cover.

Bring to the boil on a high heat until cooked (a knife blade slipping out of a stabbed piece means they are cooked)

remove from the heat drain and mash with a little butter and milk. (If using instant mashed potato wait until the fish is nearly cooked before making it up).

Heat the milk and water in a frying pan nearly to boiling

Add the fish to the milk stock with 4 slices of lemon, some chopped parsley, a bouquet garni if available and a pinch each of salt and pepper to your taste.

Simmer the fish gently until cooked 5 to ten minutes,

Remove from the heat then flake it and add to the mashed potato. Keep the cooking liquor

Add half the grated cheese and some of the fish stock, sufficient to moisten the mixture, then heat gently on low heat, stirring all the time until hot.

Put the mixture in a large, fireproof dish and smooth roughly and go over the surface with a fork lifting the surface into lots of tiny peaks. Sprinkle the rest of the grated cheese over the surface and finish under a hot grill until the peaks are brown and the cheese is melted

Serves 4.

Enjoy!

Other ideas with potato

Note

A hard boiled egg, mashed up, could be added to the mixture at the same time as the fish. Also, smoked fish, either all or part, could be used as an alternative to white fish to give a stronger flavour.

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new Autmn recipe

Cheese and Bacon Pasta

Pasta is popular with most children it is with mine and this just makes it more so with the adults too.

Serves 4

ingredients

1 oz cornflour

1 pint milk

3 oz strong, hard cheese, grated a good cheddar is spot on for this

A good knob of butter

Salt and pepper to taste

3 or 4 rashers of bacon

2 cloves of garlic, crushed

8 oz of pasta

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What you will need

small dish

1saucepan medium

1 saucepan large (for pasta)

frying pan or grill

Method

bring a large pot of water to the boil and season the water

while the water is being boiled In the small dish, mix the cornflour to a smooth paste with a little of the cold milk.

Warm the remainder of the milk in a saucepan and pour it, little by little, on to the paste and mix it well.

Return the milk to the pan and cook, stirring constantly, until it comes to the boil and thickens.

By now the water should have boiled so add the pasta to the water and cook as per the packet instructions.
While the sauce is cooking, grill or fry the bacon, when it is cooked remove and cut into small pieces.,

Add the grated cheese to the milk mixture and simmer very gently for 2 minutes stirring gently ensuring the bottom does not burn.

Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the butter. Season to your taste. Add the bacon, along with the crushed garlic, to the cheese sauce. When it is tender, about 10 minutes, drain and mix the pasta with the cheese and bacon sauce.

Check seasoning ensure that you try it before you add any salt as the bacon will change the flavour radically.

N.B. If you wish and you are frying the bacon you can throw the garlic in after it has cooked for a few moments to take the rawness away from it

Enjoy!

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This weeks featured recipe happy guy fawkes

Bonfire Fish!

Picture a camping trip deep in blackest Scotland in the shelter of a isolated rocky shore ahh! Back to reality. A nice fat fish about 18 inches long is ideal, but whatever is available will do fine.


Please Make sure no local bye laws will be infringed in setting fires.


Ingredients


A good supply of dry driftwood and Kindling

Yesterday's paper (today's if it’s boring) some for setting fire and at least 95% for the parcel

A whole fish with inner workings removed: salmon, sea trout or sea bass roughly 500 grams of fish per person should be enough.

A crusty loaf or 2

Salt and pepper to taste

A good supply of bottled beer

A few cans of soft drink for the children and the driver, to keep them quiet.

Optional extras (butter, herbs; dill thyme parsley and basil all work well on most fish)



What you will need

Not much! See above

a similar fish dish

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Method


First, in a safe place well away from any trees or other people,

Build a fire, keeping a watchful eye on the children and the fire make sure the fire is well stocked with wood. Soak several sheets of newspaper in water and place the fish ontop of paper, rub salt all over its skin and add any optional extras you have chosen.

Let the flames die down to embers.

Put the parcel on the embers and when the paper begins to char the fish should be cooked about 10 to 15 minutes depending on fire.

Set the fish in the middle of the party, open up the wrapping and attack it with fingers.

Eat it with the loaf, not sliced but torn off in chunks. At the end of the feast the only things needing washing are fingers, but do leave the fire safe and the area clean and leave it as you found it.





Enjoy!

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Lamb

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Vegetable

Beef and mince

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Egg

Beans

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Egg

Easy Spanish omelete
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