Fish

Fish Stuffed with Herbs

August 13, 2011

This is the sort of meal I like to cook in any given evening, easy to prepare and packs so much flavour which I can change depending on my whim on the day. I came across these long fillets of hake, quite unusual where I live, as soon as I spotted them I started to [...]

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Fish in Herb Salt Crust

August 13, 2011

I made this recipe by Giorgio Locatelli back in the Spring, it’s his version of the more classic salt crust baked fish as I’ve made here. Giorgio makes it with seabass fillets rather than a whole seabass like mine. The recipe is here, scroll down to where it says Sea Bass in Sea Salt. Last [...]

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Fish Baked in Salt Crust on the Barbecue

August 13, 2011

These photos go back two summers, I’ve had them in my photo album with the idea of repeating the experience this summer. I would then take a lovely shot of the plated fish set on a stylised table with the backdrop of the green outlook of my garden. I have no idea what happen to [...]

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Linguine with Brown Shrimp, Crab, Lemon & Chili

April 3, 2011

I cook pasta often for the family but rarely eat it myself because I have to limit the amount of wheat I eat. I love everything made with flour but it just loves me back too much, if I ate everything I wanted I would be jogging all day every day. For this reason [...]

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Noodle Salad – Feeding Hungry Teenagers

March 29, 2010

This noodle salad isn’t just to feed sixteen 15 year olds coming over to celebrate your daughter’s birthday, this is a good salad to make for family meals, pack lunch, to have in the fridge over the weekend giving you the answer to, ‘..what shall I snack on..’. This was a one of very two [...]

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Scallops & Chorizo Bites

March 9, 2010

These little bites are not dissimilar to the dish of black pudding and scallops which has becomes a new classic. I came across these wild scallops and couldn’t resist doing something. I have a soft spot for chorizo, if I’m at home one of the dishes I make for lunch is a salad toped with [...]

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Salt Cod Fish Cakes – Bolinhos de Bacalhau

February 22, 2010

A SMALL COMPENSATION FOR MUM LEAVING…while I’m writing this my mum is ironing the last pile of our clothes, she made Paõ De Ló this afternoon and tonight she made bolinhos de bacalhau, her last act of love before boarding a plane in the early hours of the morning. I love bolinhos de bacalhau along [...]

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Miso Noodles – Easy Way To Eat Japanese

January 15, 2010

It seems the snow is finally thawing and you can feel a sigh of relief from people as I do my weekly shop. Here I am, halfway through the month, supposedly the worst and most depressing month in our calendar. Lack of sunlight and by now we’re fed up with the cold, feeling poorer having [...]

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Gravadlax and Dill Sauce

January 6, 2010

I’m sitting here, it’s quite late and Bikerboy and I have been discussing the outcome for the morning if it snows heavily overnight, this will change our plan for the morning and re-arrangements will need to be made, the girls’ school will probably close. We’re feeling the cold, although we’re not cold you feel you [...]

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Gurnard In Tomato Sauce with Star Anise

December 5, 2009

This post was suppose to be about my butternut squash soup spiced with coriander seeds but the day didn’t quite go as planned and what came out of the kitchen today was a vegetable soup, which in fact did contained coriander spice, but it also had a lot of leeks and according to the family [...]

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