Foodie don't you know!

Well I'm no foodie, I'm just trying to justify taking photos of my dinner and here's afew more for you.   Cold crap days call for some hearty warming filling grub, not bloody salad!
Fish pie is an old fave cooked this time with salmon, mackerel and Basa ( a white fish similar to Cod I suppose). Softened some onions & garlic added the fish to just start to cook. A proper rue made with butter, milk and wheat free flour,it works well, and loads of parsley all then bunged in a oven proof dish.
A big old pile of mash all put through my trusty Zyliss potato ricer, it's bit of a faff to be honest but you'll never get smoother mash, butter & milk added then lovingly walloped down on the fishy bit with decorative fish scale shapes made with the end of a pallet knife. Butter the top, stick it in the oven for about half an hour, find a glass of something nice to drink preferably something red (bloody hell I'm turning into a poor mans Keith Floyd) get wife to lay the table, curse number three son who said he'd be home to dinner then had to work late. Relax, sit, eat. Yum.

Rue on the left and fish etc in right.

Into the oven.

Yum.

A belated Valentines dinner was had by the Memsahib and I. Much better on a Friday night anyway, always bit of a pain on a school night! Acado had one of their spiffing deals  of lots of food and a bottle of prosecco.  An excellent fish pate with salad and toast was our starter, then some Bream fillets with a stuffing of peppers & garlic & a pud of panacotta with a fruit topping. Did you know that a good panacotta is supposed to wobble like a pair of boobs........ just think about that for a while, not too long now! I like panacotta.
Some blueberries added to our prosecco added something alittle different, it was a truly lovely evening with my love, what could be better?

Pate

Prosecco and blueberries

Bream fillets, cauliflower cheese & potatoes.


Of course Ida, Ruby & Monty give no quarter so they added a certain something to the evening!