Fish pie

Based upon 2021, 2020, and 2011

Makes three dishes

Ingredients

• Fish pie mixed fish cubes
• One Smoked haddock steak quartered
• King prawns
• Prawns
• 2 large white onions
• 2 heaped tablespoon flour
• 1 heaped teaspoon of English mustard powder
• 1 heaped teaspoon of Dijon mustard
• 2 teaspoon of horseradish sauce
• 1 teaspoon of tartare sauce
• 1 pint of Milk
• Small spoon of salt
• 30g Butter
• 120g Cheddar cheese
• Mashed potatoes- 5 big potatoes

Boil and mash potatoes

Microwave chopped onion and leek, add to fish.

Make a white sauce from flour, mustard, butter and milk, horseradish and tartare sauce. This was a lot of sauce, 1 pint of milk, but three pies needed a lot of sauce.

Add sauce to fish.

Cover fish with potatoe, add cheddar on top.

Cook in oven for 25 minutes on high.

Serve with peas, spinach and mashed swede.

Marinated mushrooms, Vegetables 'sur la planche' on Coucous

Ingredients

• 5 open mushrooms
• 2 courgettes
• 1 red pepper
• 1 chilli
• 2 lemons
• 2 large tomatoes
• 3 slices of paneer
• Duck fat
• Olive oil
• Cooking wine (mead)
• Black pepper
• Couscous
• Corriander garnish
• Thyme, sage, bay, marjoram, rosemary, oregano (everything we have except mint)

Ahead of time

Put mushrooms, duck fat, pepper, herbs, garlic and a lemon together in a large lidded pan

Slice the courgette lengthways

Cut the tomatoes in half

Chop the chili roughly

Chop the pepper into slices

Add everything to the pan and ensure that everything is mixed

After an hour or so add the wine, heat the pan to boiling, then turn off and leave for another hour

Remove the vegetables to one plate, the mushrooms to another, remove the remans of the herbs from the juice, put the juice to one side.

Put olive oil in the pan and fry the mushrooms

Heat the gridle and put everything on.

Heat the juice in microwave (I didn't do this), add to 1 cup of couscous, add boiling water as necessary.

Serve with corriander garnish

Comments

Slightly too much lemon. Whilst nice the herbs were too mixed. I liked the way the chilli came through on the corgettes. The couscous came out well.

The paneer should have been haloumi.

Guinea Fowl with garlic heads and prosciutto

Guinea Fowl with all the trimmings.

Ingredients

• Sainsburies guinea fowl
• A third of a block of Sainsburies Proscutio cut into pieces (using up this odd Italian dry cured bacon)
• 8 green garlic heads
• Half a red chili
• Four carrots
• Three shallots
• Pepper

Put thechilli and two garlic heads inside the bird

Carrots and shallots underneath.

A few more garlic heads around

Cook hard with lid off for 20 minutes

Add remainig garlic heads, put lid on for another 40 minutes on a lower heat

We brought back a mangle worzle from Milford haven, which had gone to seed

The flower stems were stringy but very good flavour.

Turned out well.