The Anonymous Widower

It’s Friday So It’s Fish!

I tend to have fish on Friday, although I come from a family where there was quite a bit of anti-Roman Catholic feeling. My mother was from a Huguenot line and after what had happened in France in the eighteenth century, you could understand her family’s feelings.  With my father it was a bit mixed, but he didn’t like the way the Pope Pius XII had not condemned the Nazis.  If it’s one thing my father was, it was an anti-fascist. But then he’d been at the Battle of Cable Street.

But still we generally had fish on Fridays! A friend has said that her family did too, as that was the day the fish-man called.  I know we had a fish-man, who brought fresh fish and perhaps he came on Friday.

I don’t always follow the tradition and C generally didn’t.  But recently, I’ve found a few nice fish recipes and tend to cook one of them on a Friday.

Today was no exception and I cooked a variation of the Lindsey Bareham recipe of fish with peas and beans, that I often use.

I started by setting the oven to warm up to 200 °C, with a plate warming in the top oven. I also set some water to boil for the vegetables.

Warming Up The Cooker

Meanwhile, I prepared the fish, by taking it out of the packet and putting it in my expensive porcelain dish from a pound shop.

Fish Ready For Cooking

I generally do two pieces of fish, in case a hungry and beautiful woman should turn up, whilst I’m cooking. The only preparation I do is to put a tablespoon of Carluccio’s lemon-flavoured olive oil over each piece of fish. I always used to use a real lemon, but then I often forgot to buy one.

I also prepare the vegetables. The potatoes tonight were a pack of Waitrose’s ready-to-microwave ones, the beans were a pack of yesterday’s runner beans on special offer and the peas were frozen ones from the freezer.

The Peas and Beans Ready To Cook

The only tricky preparation was to cut the beans in half.

After the fish went in the oven, I put the beans in the boiling water and started the potatoes in the microwave.  After a couple of minutes, the peas were added to the beans and by the time they’d cooked so had the potatoes. I then just gave the fish another minute or so until it was cooked and placed it on top of the  green vegetables.

Fish With Potatoes, Peas And Beans

It really must be one of the simplest ways to cook fish and vegetables. Even I can get it right every time!

The washing-up isn’t too onerous.

Easy Washing Up

There’s nothing that’s actually too dirty and can’t be washed in the sink.

December 7, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | Food | Carluccio's, Coeliac/Gluten-Free, Cooking, Fish, Lindsey Bareham