Further Adventures in Cooking Fish
Jul. 30th, 2008 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
debithaYes, I am blogging about food again. What can I say, I love food.
Yesterday I bought monkfish from the Fish Man. He suggested the old batter-and-fry. "A bit of flour, a bit of bicarbonate of soda... do I mean bicarbonate, or baking powder? Yeah. Yeah, bicarbonate of soda to make it sort of bubbly, and a bit of water."
So I mixed up the above, and then had misgivings. Bicarb? Really? Upon turning to the Almighty Edmonds, all the batter recipes used cornflour and/or baking soda. Does anyone have an opinion on this? I scrapped the bicarb mix and started over with baking powder (and threw in some paprika for taste and colour). I'm thinking I should also have floured the fish before battering it, because there were definite issues with keeping the batter on the fish.
Anyway, presentation issues aside, it was a tasty dinner (I boiled, sliced and fried potatoes again and flash-fried some spinach in obscene amounts of butter). The monkfish was tasty, and almost slightly sweet. I will probably have that again.
Yesterday I bought monkfish from the Fish Man. He suggested the old batter-and-fry. "A bit of flour, a bit of bicarbonate of soda... do I mean bicarbonate, or baking powder? Yeah. Yeah, bicarbonate of soda to make it sort of bubbly, and a bit of water."
So I mixed up the above, and then had misgivings. Bicarb? Really? Upon turning to the Almighty Edmonds, all the batter recipes used cornflour and/or baking soda. Does anyone have an opinion on this? I scrapped the bicarb mix and started over with baking powder (and threw in some paprika for taste and colour). I'm thinking I should also have floured the fish before battering it, because there were definite issues with keeping the batter on the fish.
Anyway, presentation issues aside, it was a tasty dinner (I boiled, sliced and fried potatoes again and flash-fried some spinach in obscene amounts of butter). The monkfish was tasty, and almost slightly sweet. I will probably have that again.
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Date: 2008-07-30 09:45 pm (UTC)Stone circles are stone circles, no?
Date: 2008-07-30 10:33 pm (UTC)Re: Stone circles are stone circles, no?
Date: 2008-07-31 09:12 am (UTC)Some of them are big, some are quite little. Some have tall stones, some have stones that are under a meter tall. Some are very simple, some are more complex.
On the other hand they are all groups of rock arranged in a cirular pattern. It's a bit like saying all dogs are dogs. It's a true statement, but it doesn't let on all the variety available.
Have a nosy through the website I linked for Giffy. It's very good, with lots of pictures and info, in a well-laid out way.
Re: Stone circles are stone circles, no?
Date: 2008-08-01 01:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-31 09:15 am (UTC)Are you fixed for somewhere to stay next weekend?