A One-Handed Fish Pie
When I Cooked my last Jamie Oliver’s Fish Pie, I hadn’t had a stroke and had full use of both hands. Now my left hand has a lack of feeling in the fingers and tends to drop things a bit. But at least my right hand is almost unaffected.
Making the pie was surprisingly easy, using mainly my right hand :-
- Peeling the potatoes wasn’t too difficult, especially as I used a plastic chopping board to cut the potatoes into smaller chunks for boiling.
- Jamie said to use a big box grater in the middle of the baking dish and my left hand was strong enough to hold it completely steady, whilst I grated the carrot, celery and cheese. It was very easy and it was almost if Jamie had people like me in mind. Good on you, Jamie, if you did!
- For chopping the chilli, I used one of Delia’s little choppers.
- I did have a problem getting the skin off the salmon, but the simple solution to this, is to get the fishmpnger to do it as I did with the haddock. Waitrose and good fishmongers are happy to do this.
- Mashing the potatoes wasn’t too bad as I have a proper one-handed potato masher.
It’s amazing how much the good and sensible tools helped.
The Anonymous Widower 
I am glad the pie was successful. I agree completely about having the right tools, various very easy things have made a huge difference to my independence. And I am 10 minute drive from a Lakeland store, so easy to get things like that.
Comment by Liz P | July 5, 2010 |
You’re right about good tools, and as Liz says Lakeland is a good place to find sensible things.
You’re doing all the right things – keep it up!
Lesley x
Comment by Lesley Maciver | July 6, 2010 |