Category Archives: fish
Easy Portuguese-style sardine pâté
On their ‘Iberian’ weeks, Lidl often sell little cartons of Portuguese sardine pate that remind me of summer holidays long since passed. They’ve not had any for a while, so I decided to make my own. Turned out nice. You … Continue reading
Best fish pie yet
We’ve been making Jamie Oliver’s Fantastic Fish Pie for years, and I see Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has a similar recipe in his new comfort food book. But tonight I decided not to look at that, and busked my own new twist … Continue reading
Pea, prawn & mint risotto
Dead quick and easy risotto. This was utterly delicious. Serves 2 very hungry people, or 3 normal people. You will need: 200g risotto rice a large mug full of frozen peas half a large onion or 1 small onion 1 … Continue reading
Goan fish curry
This is adapted from a recipe in Rick Stein’s Fruits of the Sea – only we didn’t have conger eel or tamarind – though if Waitrose do a line of ‘ESSENTIAL conger eel’, I wouldn’t be entirely surprised. This is … Continue reading
Perfect crab sandwich
I was going to take a photo of this, I swear. Then I ate it. You will need: crusty white bread 1 lime some wasabi paste or powder made up with warm water fresh crab meat mayonnaise Butter the bread … Continue reading
The way to a man’s heart is through a deep-fat fryer
I’ve wanted to get a deep-fat fryer for ages. Vegetable tempura. Onion rings. PROPER chips. I finally treated myself to one today – for the princely sum of £15 in Tesco. There are about 23,000 different best ways of cooking … Continue reading
Pot-luck roast dinner
This isn’t really a recipe, just a notion. We do like a roast dinner (though John Pienaar might be putting paid to 50% of my roast dinners… another story…) but everyone likes something different. My wife and daughter like salmon, … Continue reading
Almost-vegetable paella
This is adapted from Yotam Ottolenghi’s vegetable paella recipe, using what we had to hand. It was a big hit. Well, I call anything the children eat 4 portions of a hit, especially as William decided picking the vegetables out … Continue reading
Kedgeree
Great at breakfast – or suppertime! – Smoked haddock (preferably undyed) – milk – Onions – Turmeric – Curry powder (such as Garam Masala) – lemon juice – Basmati rice – eggs Put the basmati rice on to cook, and … Continue reading
Farfalle with broccoli
I’ll always remember a colleague of mine throwing a colour supplement across the newsroom in disgust. “Anyone can make fine food with expensive ingredients. I want ALCHEMY!” Well, this recipe is alchemy – it tastes better than the sum of … Continue reading