Fish please

[riwiho]

I eat too much red meat.

I love red meat however both my partner and I have decided that we will focus on fish for a few weeks. I have a limited experience with cooking fish, mainly stick with simple tuna (in foil) or tune (quickly cooked with a home made salsa).

I am looking for some cooking/recipe suggestions for easy to obtain (mainly supermarket - I have limited access to fish monger) fish. I'm happy to try anything but do like my more meaty fish (see the first sentence). My main downfall with fish is a limited awareness of what goes well with what, what sauces (and how to make them) marry well with which fish etc.

Any and all advice is very welcome and I will report back with my experiences.

Thanks in advance.

[Puggit]

Salmon steaks - marinade in a mix of chinese 5 spice, soy sauce, white wine vinegar, sesame oil. Then barbecue...

[Big Al.]

Much prefere to see someone showing me what to do try here,

http://www.videojug.com/search?keywords=fish+dishe...

about 29 pages of dishes, mains, starters, soups, stocks....etc

HTH

[underneath2424]

Salmon with thyme cream sauce

2 Skin off salmon fillet
Black pepper and salt
Butter

Single cream
Fish soup stock (liquid or cube)
corn starch
white wine (or water)
chopped eschalot (or onion)
Thyme
butter
Salt and pepper

Oven- 180 degree preheat. Put the butter inside of the casserole and put the fillets there. Put the oven.

Make sauce - fried chopped eschalot with butter and pore the wine and soup stock, cream and thyme. little bit jused liquid with small gas, and put the corn starch finally - if you the sauce seemed thick, put the gas off. (oh put the S&P if you need)

Last - Pour the sauce on the salmon, and put back it into the oven, wait few minutes - and done!

- Always I don't scale the sauce ingredient but I use Cream:Wine:Water = 1 : 1 : 1 .
- The total time for the salmon is just over the 20. so after put the salmon into the oven, you can start to make sauce and put it on the salmon, put back to the oven just wait 5-10 min I think!

This is BEST dish of the salmon I guess
Actually, I'm not good at firm raised salmon because they have something particular bad smell. But If I cook it with this way, the smell will gone.

Enjoy!

[Mobile Chicane]

Mackerel (cheap as chips but has to be spanking fresh) marinated in olive oil, lemon juice, lemon zest, garlic and chilli.

Best barbecued (it will stink the house out otherwise) and served in the society of a soft red, couscous, grilled peppers and a harissa sauce.

[Mobile Chicane]

underneath2424 said:

Salmon with thyme cream sauce

2 Skin off salmon fillet
Black pepper and salt
Butter

Single cream
Fish soup stock (liquid or cube)
corn starch
white wine (or water)
chopped eschalot (or onion)
Thyme
butter
Salt and pepper

Oven- 180 degree preheat. Put the butter inside of the casserole and put the fillets there. Put the oven.

Make sauce - fried chopped eschalot with butter and pore the wine and soup stock, cream and thyme. little bit jused liquid with small gas, and put the corn starch finally - if you the sauce seemed thick, put the gas off. (oh put the S&P if you need)

Last - Pour the sauce on the salmon, and put back it into the oven, wait few minutes - and done!

- Always I don't scale the sauce ingredient but I use Cream:Wine:Water = 1 : 1 : 1 .
- The total time for the salmon is just over the 20. so after put the salmon into the oven, you can start to make sauce and put it on the salmon, put back to the oven just wait 5-10 min I think!

This is BEST dish of the salmon I guess
Actually, I'm not good at firm raised salmon because they have something particular bad smell. But If I cook it with this way, the smell will gone.

Enjoy!

Good call. I for one especially appreciate your recipe ideas, since I love fish and can't speak Japanese!

Keep posting.

Edited by Mobile Chicane on Sunday 12th July 22:01

[Ultuous]

Another salmon recipe I'm afraid, but it's a big favourite of ours!

[Mobile Chicane]

Ultuous said:

Another salmon recipe I'm afraid, but it's a big favourite of ours!

Nice one. Hadn't thought of doing that.

[OllieWinchester]

Ive got some trout in the fridge, any good ideas for that?

[riwiho]

Ultuous said:

Another salmon recipe I'm afraid, but it's a big favourite of ours!

Going to give this one a run out this evening. Simple start and will report back with findings.

Thanks

[neilsfishing]

Monkfish tail very meaty pan fry with capers, rosamary, lemon, black pepper, salt, cover with foil do not over cook

[Mobile Chicane]

Also a classic Scandinavian sauce for cold salmon or trout (cooked any way) - sour cream with dill snipped into it.

Also try it mashed together with the fish on toasted light rye bread, with a watercress salad on the side.

[zakelwe]

Trout as cooked per the tuna would be a good change.

Can you cook risotto? If you can't then learn to because you can then do a lovely seafood risotto either using prawns, mussels, squid etc or perhaps mackerel, or salmon.

Fish pie ? Same thing again as the above.

Crab fishcakes with chips and peas?

Prawn po boy baguette with crispy lettuce.

All yummy.

Regards

Andy

[escargot]

neilsfishing said:

Monkfish tail very meaty pan fry with capers, rosamary, lemon, black pepper, salt, cover with foil do not over cook

That sounds bloody good.

[sleep envy]

line caught swordfish steak

[HappyGoLucky]

This is good too

[riwiho]

riwiho said:

Ultuous said:

Another salmon recipe I'm afraid, but it's a big favourite of ours!

Going to give this one a run out this evening. Simple start and will report back with findings.

Thanks

OK - this went really well.

I went a little nuts with the lemon zest and used basil instead of the recommended tarragon but over-all the little roasts were amazing.

The salmon was fantastic with the meat, never done this before but shall be repeating it for sure. For simplicity and taste I can see me doing this one on a frequent basis in the future.

I'm going to select another from the list for this evenings meal - Any recommendations for fish meals for one? The Mrs is away tonight.

Edited by riwiho on Wednesday 15th July 09:44

[Neil_H]

I'm a big fan of halibut, it's similar to haddock and cod but the meat is more delicate. Try it if you find some!

[Ultuous]

riwiho said:

OK - this went really well.

I went a little nuts with the lemon zest and used basil instead of the recommended tarragon but over-all the little roasts were amazing.

The salmon was fantastic with the meat, never done this before but shall be repeating it for sure. For simplicity and taste I can see me doing this one on a frequent basis in the future.

I'm going to select another from the list for this evenings meal - Any recommendations for fish meals for one? The Mrs is away tonight.

Edited by riwiho on Wednesday 15th July 09:44

Glad to hear it! I must try it with basil sometime - although I love the way the tarragon works with the 'tatoes... And the steamed green beans taste so healthy and nutritious that I always feel the need to offset them with a nice bottle of Sauvignon Blanc for good measure!

[riwiho]

Ultuous said:

riwiho said:

OK - this went really well.

I went a little nuts with the lemon zest and used basil instead of the recommended tarragon but over-all the little roasts were amazing.

The salmon was fantastic with the meat, never done this before but shall be repeating it for sure. For simplicity and taste I can see me doing this one on a frequent basis in the future.

I'm going to select another from the list for this evenings meal - Any recommendations for fish meals for one? The Mrs is away tonight.

Edited by riwiho on Wednesday 15th July 09:44

Glad to hear it! I must try it with basil sometime - although I love the way the tarragon works with the 'tatoes... And the steamed green beans taste so healthy and nutritious that I always feel the need to offset them with a nice bottle of Sauvignon Blanc for good measure!

Yeah don't talk to me about the wine. Went into this eating healthy thing with all good intentions and even though my intake is so much healthier, tastier etc I am still enjoying a glass of wine on a regular basis.