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A Tin of Tuna A Tonne of Dee-Lite

October 4th, 2006 phatty 2 comments

Eating fish is a bit like riding a bike. Sort of. Anyway, I am not really very fond of fish, but I do have a bike, so I was a bit dissappointed to find out we were doing tuna fishcakes. Got anything in the freezer Sensi…? Of course, I always make the kids try stuff so I thought it would be shamefull of me not to indulge. And was I pleasantly surprised? Well, it was a bit more than pleasant.

Ingredients

  • 8 medium potatoes
  • 1 large onion
  • Bunch of corriander
  • 2 cans of tuna in oil
  • Salt and pepper

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How to…Scale, gut & trim a fish

July 21st, 2006 MCC Sensi 5 comments

Be warned…scales fly everywhere & their transparency makes them hard to detect. The amount of times I was turned down for the last dance because the girl thought my face was on some Singing Detective flaking caper, I can tell you…

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Piri Piri Prawns

July 2nd, 2006 redeye 9 comments

So the MCC finally gets back together again. And about time too.

The Sensi and I do a bit of a mad one in Sainsbury’s and go on a mad fish bender. We start with the raw deveined prawns. I wasn’t sure what “deveined” meant , apparently it’s when the all the gak gets removed from the spine, you know all the brown nasty bits.

So this recipe is the simplest and most flippin’ delicious dish that you can imagine for such little effort. I can honestly say that this is probably the nicest prawn dish that I’ve ever had… Not bad considering Pat just made it up on the fly.

Piri Piri Prawns final

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