Fish

Fish in aromatic spices

January 26, 2013
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The spices here are mellow to give an overall flavour to the dish and be very much in the background.  If you’re thinking of this as a curry-type thing, it’s not, I wanted the flavour of the fish especially blander fish to be allowed through.  I first made this a few months ago when a […]

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Molho fervido – Cooked olive oil dressing (fish & potato salad)

January 23, 2013
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The idea of molho fervido, also called azeite fervido is to add flavour to starchy plain boiled potatoes and a plain cooked fish usually poached, and often the choice of fish will be bacalhau (salt cod) but also popular is pescada (hake).  I don’t know about you but sometimes when cold weather demands something warm and […]

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Pan-fried seabass with roasted fennel mayo and sea aster – How to get crispy skin

September 7, 2012
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Frying fish fillets like this seabass here is important for me to end up with crispy skin, I love it.  I go through all the trouble of creating crispy tasty skin to then see Bikerboy removing and discarding it to the side of the plate. The sea aster to me tastes of mild spinach, I […]

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Octopus Rice – Arroz de Polvo Malandrinho

August 15, 2012
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If you’ve never eaten octopus I think octopus rice is the best way to try it.  This is my favourite way with octopus, the flavour of the rice comes from the water the octopus cooks in and the water it releases during cooking, giving the rice a very meaty flavour and a lovely hue of […]

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Octopus Salad – Salada de Polvo

August 14, 2012
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Now that you have done the hard part of cooking the octopus as shown in my post here, here’s the simple salad. It can be eaten as part of other dishes in a tapas style meal.  It’s often eaten with new potatoes. Once it’s dressed like this it can be kept in the fridge and […]

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How To Cook Octopus

August 13, 2012
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How To Tenderise Your Octopus The not very well kept Portuguese secret of how to produce tender octopus is to freeze it first.  This one here I bought already frozen from a Portuguese deli and it comes pretty clean with only the cutting to do, easy to prepare.  If you don’t have time to freeze […]

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Bolinhos de Bacalhau – Salt Cod Fish Cakes

February 6, 2012
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In Portugal the national food is bacalhau, salt cod, there are hundreds of recipes and the older generations would happily eat it once a week if not more.  It’s not a cheap food anymore, what was once a way of preserving fish through necessity it now commands a good price which is why when buying […]

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Fish Stuffed with Herbs

August 13, 2011
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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
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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
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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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Noodle Salad – Feeding Hungry Teenagers

March 29, 2010
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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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Miso Noodles – Easy Way To Eat Japanese

January 15, 2010
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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
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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
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The surprising dish that came out of my kitchen tonight was gurnard in a tomato sauce. Like the monkfish they’re described as an ugly fish but I would differ from that view.  For one it’s usually a lovely pink colour and a gurnard’s head is big but not deformed as with the monkfish and their […]

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