Good Friday Fish Feast

I'm not religious in the slightest but for some reason always try to have fish on Good Friday. Must be a family tradition I guess as my Dad mentioned he was having fish for dinner when I visited him on Friday.  We generally talk about food :)  Anyways, I bought some skinless haddock from Waitrose stupidly, as I can never fry fish without skin (is there a knack or do you actually need the skin to fry it?) without it falling apart.  I thus decided to bake it in a cheese sauce with tenderstem broccoli and peas, and to accompany I boiled some baby new potatoes and covered them with butter and chives (doing great in the garden at the moment) and some carrots and leeks.  It was very tasty!

I also attempted to make some deep fried courgette balls (had them in Carluccio's) so I julienned a round courgette (harder than it sounds - normal shaped ones are much easier) and I wrang them out in muslin to remove the water.  Think that's where I went wrong as they were just dry then so I ended up adding egg and flour and making fritters instead.  They were good, but would have been tastier with some pesto drizzled over and parmesan.  Next time.....


Tomorrow will be steak night if Mr W gets his way although I am getting a little fed up with steak every week which is a shame.  It should be more of an occasional treat I think but try telling Mr W that ;)  I usually cook lamb on Easter Sunday so will see what the butcher has.  We don't do anything family-related for Easter as we are usually busy in the garden.  This year we have 10 days off in total and plan to paint three rooms and gravel the front garden.  Might not leave much time to cook but shall do my best....all that work will work up quite an appetite! :)