Posted by: AM on: December 31, 2008
Inspired by (or poorly imitating) the fish tacos at the lovely Agua Verde in Seattle, this is a staple in our house.
Pretty much any fish will do. The original Agua Verde tacos were halibut, but we usually use mackerel. I’ve tried it with monkfish, which is easier to handle because it’s so firm and meaty, [...]
Posted by: AM on: December 25, 2008
Christmas tradition decrees that on the night before Christmas, we all eat chowder. Christmas in my wife’s family’s house, that is. And just because we’re thousands of miles away from Seattle doesn’t mean we can’t recreate the traditional yuletide fish soup.
Most of the American recipes call on ingredients I can’t easily get here in Cork, [...]
Posted by: AM on: August 26, 2008
We lost our internet connection last week. Chorus took ten days to send an operative, who solved the problem in exactly two minutes by removing an illegal cable splitter that someone had apparently installed outside our house, which was weakening our signal and cutting off our broadband connection. The ten day delay led to much [...]
Posted by: AM on: April 28, 2008
There’s a fine line between a recipe and something so simple it’s not much more than a collection of ingredients. For instance, I feel this line has been crossed whenever I see a recipe for a sandwich. So I’m not sure whether to call this a recipe, because once you’ve bought the smoked salmon, creme [...]
Posted by: AM on: April 20, 2008
Quick and easy, warming and delicious, and so healthy it needs a prescription. This salmon hotpot comes from the Wagamama cookbook, and the only thing I’ve changed are the quantities (this recipe serves 4, the original recipe serves 2). I’m sure they won’t mind. It’s free advertising, after all. But just to show that this [...]
Posted by: AM on: March 2, 2008
This title is so descriptive it barely needs a recipe, but here goes. I should mention that my wife came up with this recipe (notwithstanding the fact that nobody ever really invents anything in the world of cooking), because she’s sick of me taking the credit for anything funny or interesting that she happens to [...]
Posted by: AM on: February 17, 2008
OK. Now I’m going to start using this blog as a way of logging all my favourite recipes. Sort of an online version of those paper things – notebooks? – where home-makers used to jot down their menus.
Today I made mackerel fish cakes. Mackerel are very cheap at the moment, and very good. This recipe [...]
