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staceyb

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7,107 posts

248 months

Monday 6th April 2009
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OK its Good Friday this friday and I need to feed 6 for as little money as possible and it obviously needs to be a fish dish or a veggie dish. Any ingredients go except cheese and tomatoes.

All ideas welcome, cheers.

Slagathore

6,183 posts

216 months

Monday 6th April 2009
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Prawn Curry!!


madbadger

11,730 posts

268 months

Monday 6th April 2009
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Steak and Fish.

Cook Steak, serve, place fish in bin. Yummy!

wink

Wadeski

8,859 posts

237 months

Monday 6th April 2009
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deep frying can be your friend - you can do a lovely seafood thai curry with deep fried fish, and the advantage is you can use frozen fish for this (defrost thoroughly and pat it dry first unless you want your wok to explode!). Deep fry the fish pieces, then just slide them into a nice bubbling curry sauce.

Or pour over a nice spicy sambal style sauce.

Serve with rice and easy asian-style salads like shredded cucumber and carrot, with sugar, sesame oil and vinegar dressing.

williamp

20,124 posts

297 months

Monday 6th April 2009
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You can get some fairly cheap fish and make a really nice dish with a pesto type topping on the fish.

Salmon is always a favourite in our house. Especially steamed

Steamed mussels, with white wine sauce and chips?

spikeyhead

19,773 posts

221 months

Monday 6th April 2009
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Travel to teh coast, fish for mackerel, cook on the beach. There is no finer way to eat fish.

Wadeski

8,859 posts

237 months

Monday 6th April 2009
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fish pie is a good shout.

Zen.

794 posts

219 months

Monday 6th April 2009
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How about squid in batter? I had some at our local pub on Friday an it was amazing, batter was light and squid soft and tender lick

bint

4,664 posts

248 months

Monday 6th April 2009
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Black Halibut fillets baked/steamed and served with a thai chilli sauce - recipe I use is in a thai cook book, but this looks fairly similar;

http://www.ezythaicooking.com/free_recipes/steamed...

Penny-lope

13,645 posts

217 months

Monday 6th April 2009
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Slagathore said:
Prawn Curry!!
With lots of spinach lick

Psychobert

6,318 posts

280 months

Monday 6th April 2009
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Wadeski said:
fish pie is a good shout.
Yup.. If you are feeding 6, this woul dbe a good bet. A combination of cod/pollack, coley perhaps monkfish and of course smoked haddock, (not the died yellow stuff hurl ) Pop in a handful of prawns, some spinach and a couple of quartered, hard boiled eggs if you must. biggrin

captainzep

13,306 posts

216 months

Monday 6th April 2009
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Normandy Fish Stew

Buy whatever fish is in budget. -But also try to ensure you've got 2 or 3 king prawns and mussels per person.

Reduce down a pint of double cream and a couple of glasses of white wine a bit.

Steam the mussels in a pan with white wine, lots of shaking, normal mussel rules apply.

Poach off the fish and prawns in the white wine/cream.

Chuck in the mussels and a bit of beurre manier (some flour and butter mixed together to thicken. Squeeze of lemon and some flatleaf parsley.

Serve with crusty bread.

They'll fecking love you.

smiller

12,391 posts

228 months

Monday 6th April 2009
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Kedgeree.

Smoked haddock (again, not the dyed variety), savoury rice from a packet, sweetcorn (or peas), a couple of boiled eggs, and a sprinkle of cayenne pepper.

Cheap.

Tasty.


Anna_S

1,473 posts

236 months

Monday 6th April 2009
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madbadger said:
Steak and Fish.

Cook Steak, serve, place fish in bin. Yummy!

wink
rofl

staceyb

Original Poster:

7,107 posts

248 months

Tuesday 7th April 2009
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captainzep said:
Normandy Fish Stew

Buy whatever fish is in budget. -But also try to ensure you've got 2 or 3 king prawns and mussels per person.

Reduce down a pint of double cream and a couple of glasses of white wine a bit.

Steam the mussels in a pan with white wine, lots of shaking, normal mussel rules apply.

Poach off the fish and prawns in the white wine/cream.

Chuck in the mussels and a bit of beurre manier (some flour and butter mixed together to thicken. Squeeze of lemon and some flatleaf parsley.

Serve with crusty bread.

They'll fecking love you.
That sounds absolutely gorgeous.

Think it will be this or a cheeseless fish pie. Cheers chaps and chapesses.

staceyb

Original Poster:

7,107 posts

248 months

Tuesday 7th April 2009
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Anna_S said:
madbadger said:
Steak and Fish.

Cook Steak, serve, place fish in bin. Yummy!

wink
rofl
If I could I would but my Dad would have my head on a platter if I ate meat on Good Friday.

We are having organic rib eye beef (I'm not paying but OH's Dad loves it so is paying) on Saturday. They are the most gorgeous bits of steak in the world. Cows come from the field at the end of the road and chopped up by the butcher in the next village lick

cslgirl

2,215 posts

244 months

Tuesday 7th April 2009
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Fishcakes? I made some lovely fresh haddock and prawn fishcakes on Sunday - in breadcrumbs and fried - served with salad.

shirt

25,077 posts

225 months

Tuesday 7th April 2009
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this is a very simple ken hom recipe i sometimes cook. always goes down well:

take a salmon fillet, season, then rub in a little cumin. place a bay leaf on top and wrap the fillet in a spring roll pancake. fry for about 20 secs on each [of the four] sides and serve. salad / roast new potatoes [with saffron & sesame seeds] work well as side dishes.


or:

take a fish, most types work and doesn;t matter if filleted or not. place it on a sheet of tinfoil and make up a quantity of finely chopped ginger/lemongrass/garlic/chilli. rub this on the fish and add a splash of fish sauce. wrap in the tinfoil and cook in a steamer. serve with a thai salad.



dougc

8,241 posts

289 months

Tuesday 7th April 2009
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http://www.recipelink.com/cookbooks/2004/158008568...

Try this. Very easy. Reckon you could subsitute bass for any firm white fish. I've made it with bass and sea bream in the past. Fillets might work too, just reduce the final cooking time a bit.

escargot

17,122 posts

241 months

Tuesday 7th April 2009
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bouillabaise or in english - fish stew. God it's good.