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I was talking to Natalie on the phone last night and she mentioned a fantastic Jamie Oliver recipe for roasted monkfish. I’m not a fan of monkfish so I opted to try it using cod as a substitute.
I served new potatoes crushed with a little olive oil and spring onions as the accompaniment but it would the dish would work well with rocket leaves dressed with balsamic vinegar and olive oil.
Whilst browsing through the UKTV Food site I would this recipe from Ching He-Huang.
Whenever we are back in Glasgow we always visit Ichiban, chicken yakitori is a firm favourite so I thought this was definately worth trying to see how they compared.
This recipe originally featured on Ching’s Kitchen and was first aired on UKTV Food.
I served my Salmon with spring onion crushed potatoes and carrots, not exactly Asian but tasty never the less.
This marinade/glaze works just as well on poultry as on fish (as I said above it was chicken yakitori I had tried in the past).
An alternative accompaniment would be some spring onion and coriander jasmin rice, the creaminess of the coconut milk in the rice would compliment the sweetness of the glaze beautifully.
I can say that this will feature on the menu in our house again, it was really scrummy and measured up to Ichiban standards favourably!
Since starting my new food program I have been really hankering after a nice piece of fish. Now anyone who knows me will testify to the fact that I have never been a great fish lover but in recent times I have been trying to re-educate myself into eating and enjoying more fish. Like anyone I still have the fear of finding a dreaded bone in the last mouthful but I have tried to ensure that this doesn’t disuade me. With this in mind I have been trying to eat salmon a little more regularly. I do really like salmon teriyaki and have posted a recipe for this great dish in the past and this evening I decided to expand my repatoir of fish cookery and test out another new recipe.
I had a bit of a search on the internet today for a good blackened salmon recipe and found that many of the recipes were quite similar so I decided to merge a handful of these recipes and add my own touch.
I served it with my healthy low fat potato salad (recipe below) and oven roasted vegetables.
As I said in my post before I went to Glasgow my best friend Natalie is an excellent cook!! Natalie had prepared all of the ingredients to make Paella for my arrival on Thursday but after all the messing around due to my baggage problems we didn’t get back to her house until almost 10pm, we decided to put the paella on hold until Friday night and went for fish suppers on Thursday (very good choice!).
After shopping all day at Braehead shopping center in order that I had some clothes etc and visiting my little grandmother (she’s 84 in January!!) we returned to the flat and Natalie whipped up the most delicious paella. I had a real hankering for it again this week and so I asked Nat to share her recipe. I should have taken some photographs of Natalie’s masterpiece when it was dished up but I was too late and only thought of it after I had already polished off my plate and her and Gareth’s was almost finished but here is what the remained of Natalie’s Paella by the time I got my camera out!
I hope my attempt did Natalie’s version justice! Next time I will buy chorizo from the Spanish deli around the corner and will also use raw prawns instead of pre-cooked.
As I said earlier I’ve been thinking about this recipe all week, a real fusion dish of East meets West. I have been musing about which curry paste would suit cod and what other ingredients to add.
At lunchtime today I went into the city to get lunch and I stopped by the little Asian store at Claraplatz since they sell a whole host of freshly made curry pastes. I bought three different pastes, normal red curry paste, country style curry paste and chu-chi curry paste. I have no idea what to do with the country style and chu-chi curry pastes but I thought the red curry would be perfect for my reworked Thai influenced fishcakes.
This is a work in progress so it may take a few attempts before I get it exactly right.
My contribution for Monthly Mingle #2 is Teriyaki Salmon. As you may know I’m not the world’s biggest fish fan but the last time we were back in Glasgow we had dinner at Ichiban and Stewart ordered Teriyaki Salmon as a starter and it was absolutely delicious!! With that in mind I searched through my cookbooks for a reliable Teriyaki recipe… who could be more reliable than Delia Smith??
Delia Smith is the matriarch of British cookery, in fact the phrase “doing a Delia” actually appears in the Oxford Engish dictionary as both a noun and a verb! If there was ever a Teriyaki recipe which would be sucessful then surely it would be hers??
Judge for yourself.. Here is Delia’s recipe for Teriyaki Grilled Marinated Salmon, taken from How to Cook Book 3.
I finished work early today and spent this afternoon running about crazy. I ended up knackered and wasn’t really in the mood for cooking something from scratch and so I decided to make the sesame prawns which I bought from Co-Op yesterday. I served them with lemon, aioli and some tomato, chilli and red pepper salsa. They were really juicy!
This week we’re off to Scotland again, this time for a wedding. Our friends Kate (Scottish) and Sacha (Swiss) are getting married in the Highlands (Pitlochry). We fly out on Wednesday morning so things here will be on the quiet side until we get back on Sunday afternoon.
With this in mind I thought that before we go I would try out another recipe from my favourite cookbook of the moment, yeah you’ve guessed it, more treats from Wagamama - Ways With Noodles by Hugo Arnold.
I really fancied one of the mussel recipes but they’re not in season at the moment so I thought I’d stick with seafood.
PRAWN AND CHICKEN NOODLES
If you are wondering where Pam is, she’s over at my place cooking there, so I thought I’d keep her stove warm here.
Pam and I decided to surprise our readers with a Blog Swop. We discovered, in our virtual friendship, that we have a few things in common and really took a liking to each other. One thing we both love is Jamie Oliver and his current Jamie’s Italy. The recipes are all fantastic! That is why it was rather difficult for me to decide what could I cook for Pam!
At first I thought of making something sweet but then decided to go with this recipe:
Spaghetti con Gamberetti e Rucola - Spaghetti with jumbo prawns and rucola.
I had a few great ideas how I could photograph the prawns ;-)!
Every day I try and visit each of my favourite foodblogs, yesterday Celia over at English Patis posted the most wonderful recipe for fishcakes.
I’m not a huge fish lover but I do like cod and so I thought I’d give Celia’s recipe a try. I have adapted the original recipe slightly by using low fat mayonnaise and bärlauch (wild garlic) since it’s in season at the moment.
Makes 4-6 Fishcakes
