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Cod, Potato, Chorizo and Pea Fritatta (8 eggs)
- our dish of the week |
With daughter in Berlin it was an excuse to eat some fish this week (forgetting that son isn't that keen either), so we started things off with fried whole mackerel on a bed of quinoa and tomatoes. The mackerel were 82p each in Asda, but they weren't as flavourful as the last time we tried mackerel, which were from Sainsbury's. Couldn't help feeling a twinge when I decapitated them, as decapitations are rather in the news at the moment. The fish stayed much more together this time, and I think the whole thing was quite well cooked, though son only ate half his fish. The next day I made a cheap version of Paella, with chicken, chorizo, peas and prawns, and a lot of paella rice, it was another Jamie effort, from the Save book I think. Really nice. On wednesday had more fish, this time a cod and potato frittata, to which I added some left over chorizo and peas from the paella, and I think they added a great deal of flavour to the dish which might have been a bit bland otherwise (it was a Gino D'Campo recipe). Very pleased with how it turned out, visually (see right). I think it was our dish of the week. Then on thursday with daughter back from Berlin and long trip to airport we had trash food, McDonalds and KFC for four, (not a very nice 3 piece KFC for meal, despite friendly server in shop who claimed she could read my mind and predict what I wanted - she was right about the Pepsi but wrong about the hot wings). On Friday we had Toad in the Hole. Made the batter a bit thicker this time, it worked really well. The key thing with the batter is lots of eggs and extra egg whites to ensure plump risingness.
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slightly flavourless 82p Asda mackerel |
Oh you can't even spell Frittata, you fool, Mr Jones!!
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