Further Adventures in Cooking Fish

[debitha]

Yes, 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.

Comments

[debitha.livejournal.com]

It's OK, I have the Costume Museum at the top of my mental list of things for you to do. I have just realised I have no idea if your Beau has any particular interests. He must do, but I do not know them.

[giffydoll.livejournal.com]

He likes stuff. We're both keen on stone circles ;) We have seen a few olde stone things in Ireland, but always keen for more, especially if they informative signs etc. We both love that stuff ;)