Valentine’s Day - what fish....

[baconsarney]

Need some help here peeps, I’m doing a candle lit dinner affair tomorrow evening and the lady loves fish... now, I’m a reasonably accomplished cook, I’ve cooked many fish dishes over the years, but for some reason my mind has frozen over this one, and no amount of browsing for ideas is helping.... thinking mussels and/or oysters to start, but I’m struggling to make a call on the main course... any ideas?
TIA, Richard

[S100HP]

baconsarney said:

Need some help here peeps, I’m doing a candle lit dinner affair tomorrow evening and the lady loves fish... now, I’m a reasonably accomplished cook, I’ve cooked many fish dishes over the years, but for some reason my mind has frozen over this one, and no amount of browsing for ideas is helping.... thinking mussels and/or oysters to start, but I’m struggling to make a call on the main course... any ideas?
TIA, Richard

Fishy fingers?

[IanA2]

Brill...

[Drew106]

S100HP said:

Fishy fingers?

[Europa1]

Monkfish wrapped in parma ham or bacon?

Maybe with a cream/white wine/caper sauce, dauphinois spuds and samphire?

[Trophy Husband]

Monkfish wrapped in Parma ham. This leads to fishy fingers in my experience.

[baconsarney]

Hmm interesting idea.... oysters to start, then fish finger sandwich’s

[craigjm]

Turbot

[HTP99]

Just been down to Waitrose to pick up a "Valentines dinner for 2 for £20" deal; the main is sea bass stuffed with tomatoes and olives.

[hotchy]

Fish fingers on toast. Loaded with butter. Perfect.

[IanA2]

HTP99 said:

Just been down to Waitrose to pick up a "Valentines dinner for 2 for £20" deal; the main is sea bass stuffed with tomatoes and olives.

It'll be farmed.

[hotchy]

IanA2 said:

HTP99 said:

Just been down to Waitrose to pick up a "Valentines dinner for 2 for £20" deal; the main is sea bass stuffed with tomatoes and olives.

It'll be farmed.

I also only eat wild steaks...

[Trophy Husband]

IanA2 said:

HTP99 said:

Just been down to Waitrose to pick up a "Valentines dinner for 2 for £20" deal; the main is sea bass stuffed with tomatoes and olives.

It'll be farmed.

Is farmed necessarily bad? Better than raping the oceans surely?

Bass are heavily controlled at the moment because stocks are dwindling. Not surprisingly there are reasons for this.

[Big Al.]

baconsarney said:

Need some help here peeps, I’m doing a candle lit dinner affair tomorrow evening and the lady loves fish... now, I’m a reasonably accomplished cook, I’ve cooked many fish dishes over the years, but for some reason my mind has frozen over this one, and no amount of browsing for ideas is helping.... thinking mussels and/or oysters to start, but I’m struggling to make a call on the main course... any ideas?
TIA, Richard

So where are you shopping for fish, supermarket, fishmongers?

[227bhp]

Europa1 said:

Monkfish wrapped in parma ham or bacon?

Maybe with a cream/white wine/caper sauce, dauphinois spuds and samphire?

Bacon is too clumsy IMO. You can also put chopped sundried toms, mushrooms, grated Mozzarella and a touch of garlic in there too.

[V8mate]

I wouldn't have a fishy starter if I'm making a fishy main course.

Of course, the sneaky thing is that a fish dish is just crying out for a couple of bottles of bubbly to accompany it. And it's bubbly which guarantees fishy fingers!

[21TonyK]

If you can get to a decent fishmongers a whole monkfish tail roasted and shared is a great dish. Nice fennel and potato gratin and that's about it.

Really simple, very little prep and no real washing up.

[soad]

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[baconsarney]

Big Al. said:

So where are you shopping for fish, supermarket, fishmongers?

Probably here Al, www.midnorfolksmokehouse.co.uk or wet fish counter at Waitrose... mid Norfolk smoke house is brilliant, bought a couple of line caught sea bass last time I was there....

[craigjm]

227bhp said:

Europa1 said:

Monkfish wrapped in parma ham or bacon?

Maybe with a cream/white wine/caper sauce, dauphinois spuds and samphire?

Bacon is too clumsy IMO. You can also put chopped sundried toms, mushrooms, grated Mozzarella and a touch of garlic in there too.

Garlic in a Valentine’s Day dish?