Fishy Friday 1st of June 2012

Yep it's that time again it's Fishy Friday. My friend over at Mummysknee is the authority on fish oopsy should I say works for the authority on fish in the U.K. Seafish and works on another lovely website called Fish Is The Dish with some other lovely girls trying to help peeps get motivated and fired up about eating fish again. After all it is terribly good for our brains and hearts and other bits and bobs and I suppose if done right it can be yummers too.

So in an attempt to be a good chum I agreed to do a blog each Friday about fish. When she first asked me I screwed up my face thinking, hmmm little old me, what do I know about fish? But that's the idea I know nuffink about fish except how to avoid eating it and when I do get my hands on it how to make a hash of cooking it. If I can get to grips with fish anyone can.


It may also be interesting for those interested (say what) to hear about different species of fish we have available by the beach over in the old N of Z.

Last week was the start and I set myself a Fortnightly Fish Challenge go take a look see what other nonsense I can babble on about.

The extent of our fish intake this week has been poor as ever. Darling Daughter was lucky enough to have some tempura battered fish, pictured below, nom nom nom!

Nothing wrong with some fish fingers I know but would be grand to set a good example to the little Cherubs and get chowing down on fish like its the normal thing to do (because it is of course).

As for Notsosuperscottishmummy and Lovely Hubby we are having the nutritious delight of these bad boys (pictured below) tonight as part of our anniversary dinner. I am pretty sure these don't count as our fish intake but I love them!

I've got till next Friday to complete my first challenge. Grocery shop will take place this weekend and I will have to have my fishy requirements on my shopping list.

My ideas so far are;

• Go for glory and make mussels for me and Lovely Hubby. Bit scary by all accounts, no idea what I would serve with them for a start and when I mentioned it to Lovely Hubby he looked a bit scared (come to think of it he looked a bit scared about every fish suggestion, have a bit of faith man come on).
• Start with something I know, monkfish curry, courtesy of a recipe from fellow scot Nick Nairn. Lovely Hubby has made this in the past and it is tasty, monkfish is cheap(er) here and I can always ask Lovely Hubby if I get stuck.
• Last option (so far) is a Fish Pie from my old faithful Annabel Karmel cook book, Darling Daughter could eat with us and if Lovely Hubby doesn't like it he can lump it! Only wee problem here is cod is required, you can get cod here but relatively speaking it is kinda pricey, so would need to investigate a kiwi alternative.

Right oh then I am off to look at some cookbooks and make a list. I will report back next week on what will hopefully be a success!