Posted in - Healthy Recipes & Lunch / Dinner & Seafood on May 8th 2020
Happy VE Day!
In the grocer in Sturminster Newton yesterday I found fresh turmeric. Only that morning my mother was saying she wanted to eat it to help various ailments. So as luck would have it ….
Serves 6
Ingredients
1 aubergine with 1 clove finely slice garlic, olive oil and salt
glug of plain oil (olive, rapeseed …
Posted in - gluten free & Healthy Recipes & Salads & Seafood on September 25th 2019
gluten free salads sushi wasabi
This is not the first time I have posted sushi on this blog. So it is the same recipe but a reminder. I served it with two salads because the children wouldn’t eat the fennel salad so a cucumber concoction accompanied us too. We compared Waitrose bought sushi with homemade. I noticed a difference in …
Posted in - Lunch / Dinner & Seafood on November 3rd 2016
portpatrickpub scallops; baconscallops seafoodstarter smokedgarlicscallops springonionscallops TheCrownPortPatrick
In Dumfriesshire during half term, we walked 3 miles from our hotel on the coast to a little fishing village called Port Patrick where we had lunch in a pub called The Crown excelling in seafood. This recipe was inspired by that. The pub was as traditional as they all used to be, but with …
Posted in - Healthy Recipes & Seafood on September 21st 2016
pate smoked mackerel pate; easy children recipe
The children chose, and they prepared. I sat at the kitchen table with a cup of tea, directing! This is such a simple recipe that perhaps it does not even need to be here, but then we all like simple recipes, and sometimes the obvious needs stating, – it does for me anyway.
Ingredients
280g cream cheese
4 …
Posted in - Lunch / Dinner & Recipes & Seafood on August 7th 2016
Aioli calamari pistou soup squid vegetable garden soup
My iphone has died and so I have lost the picture of the squid alongside the soup and aioli. This is my last post until the end of the month when we get back from Canada. Have a good rest of August!
This is a traditional recipe, the origins of which are claimed by both the …
Posted in - Lunch / Dinner & Seafood on July 24th 2016
borage buckwheat flour creamed spinach Mackerel fillets quinoa salad with garden herbs
Last night my husband and children went fishing on Chessil Beach with friends. In a huge break from the norm, each family came back with 28 mackerel, or thereabouts!!! Our veg garden is slightly over-run by spinach so this and its herbs added to the satisfyingly homegrown/self caught lunch.
Ingredients
Quinoa salad
120g quinoa
340ml water
glug of virgin olive …
Posted in - Healthy Recipes & Seafood on May 21st 2016
japanese salmon sushi sushi tuna sushi wasabi
In case anyone has noticed it has been a while … I am back, having had a break from the food world whilst waiting to launch Bicycles, Bloomers and Great War Rationing Recipes which, (can you believe it as it has taken 2 years to be published!!) is coming out next month!!! Hooray! So rather …
Posted in - Seafood on August 11th 2015
crevettes flambeed flambeed vermouth King prawns
To enjoy this fully, you need to get stuck in with your hands, eat them with close friends or family (i.e. eating corn on the cob on a first date – unlikely!).
Ingredients
3 tbsp olive oil
25g butter
1 onion finely chopped
3 cloves garlic, finely sliced
salt (about 1 tsp or more depending on taste)
25 shell on King prawns/crevettes
200mls Vermouth
Parsley
1. …
Posted in - Lunch / Dinner & Mrs C.S. Peel's Recipes & Rationing & Seafood on March 23rd 2015
baked ramekin recipe rations salmon bake tinned salmon WW1 rationing
In a local village hall – I write ‘a’ because we live between quite a few villages and their halls in no-man’s land, not belonging to any in particular – Granny Dot’s recipes were used for their annual fund-raising event, raising a grand sum of £600! Among the recipes was this which was so popular that I …
Posted in - Canapes & Peacetime & Recipes & Seafood on January 26th 2015
Canapes a la Fribourg; Haddock canapes; simple canapes Dorothy Peel; Mrs C.S. Peel
These are hard to resist. To recreate exactly is a time-consuming process. Alternatively, use whichever whizzing gadget you have and a fine sieve to speed things up a little…
But first, here’s Granny Dot’s version:
Materials and Method.–Steam a haddock, and work the flesh through a sieve, moistening it with a little milk, when necessary. Mix …