The total cost of this amaazing dish, minus seasoning and vegetables was £4.60! But that folks is one of the benefits of having a proper fishmonger!
The huge salmon head had its' spine still attached with lots of flesh, the heads have LOTS of flesh and this had a big chunk of the body as well, the tilapia was cut into three, head and two pieces, two huge prawns were in their skins and she cleaned the two baby squid.
Putting the salmon into cold water with spices and celery, she brought that up to the boil and then slipped in the tilapia for a couple of minutes.
Transfering some of the boiling fish stock to another pan, she added a couple of home made vegetable stock cubes, finely chopped carrots and a big handful of whole french beans, then for the last few minutes she added salmon pieces from the spine, a chunk of tilapia, the squid (don't over cook it otherwise you end up with rubbery rings!), then prawns went in with more spices and herbs.
OH SLURP-THE-DURP! She ladled some into a high sided bowl, added a bit of soya and ate it with chopsticks and then slurped the soup.. as you do in the privacy of your own kitchen.
I am crazy-daisy about beans cooked this way and also ate carrots and fish.
The prawn shells went back into the mother pot and this has hubbled and bubbled for three hours on a low heat. It will be spectacular tomorrow and she will freeze the remaining soup and goodies.
All this, with not one fattening element in sight, for £4.60! Go immediately, if not sooner, and find a proper fishmonger, our's is in the North End Road Market and is called Fulham Fish. They mind not at all if you only want two prawns! Nice men. Good fish.
She spent time today speaking to other PR people, she got some wonderful stuff coming as prizes for the summer barbecue on August 29th. Not one company said "no" and today's tally is two theatre tickets for a west end very popular show, tea for two at a great west hotel, some book tokens, gift vouchers from a famous perfume company, store vouchers from three BIG high street shops and a couple of vouchers for lunch or dinner at two restaurants.
Plus Morrisons have agreed to donate all the food and drink for the fundraising barbecue! They are an incredibly generous and highly philanthropic store.
One thing she has to remember to do is to organise the alcohol license for the barbecue from Lambeth Council. And who knows what amazing things she will ask companies to donate tomorrow? There will be more goodies that's for sure! Last year they raised over £800.00 in three hours, this year they'll beat that with all of these spectacular gifts being offered as raffle prizes!
We are off to read a book and spend a quiet evening. She read a book last night that made her weep. A much beloved friend of Constance and Hugo was a man called Denys Yates, he was captured by the Japanese, contracted TB, treated appallingly and never spoke about it except to Hugo, her father.. you never served Denys white rice..
This book is the true story of Louie Zamperini, a very famous American runner, whose B24 plane was shot down by a Japanese fighter plane, he and his pilot and another crew member survived for over forty days on a raft, which was strafed by a Japanese Zero fighter.. grrr.. ugh.
They lost Mac.. but Phil, the pilot, and Louie survived only to captured by the Japanese and were held without the Red Cross being alerted. They were treated brutally. The story tells in great detail of what level of inhumanity and cruelty was levelled towards the prisoners and the sadistic torture they experienced. No wonder Denys never talked about it..
The War Crimes board in the Hague stll search for old Nazis and, of course, for the people on both sides who were responsible for atrocities committed during the Serb / Croat war in the early 1990's.
But Japan.. whose treatment of all prisoners of war was of the vilest sort.. ah well.. big business after the war was vital to the economy and so it was decided to pardon their war criminals in the early 1950's.
Her parents were very active throughout WW2 and the Malay Emergency and they both said "that whereas they 'might' forgive, they would never forget what both Germany and Japan had did to the world".
Oi vey..
GeeGee Parrot.
July 16th, 2015.
The huge salmon head had its' spine still attached with lots of flesh, the heads have LOTS of flesh and this had a big chunk of the body as well, the tilapia was cut into three, head and two pieces, two huge prawns were in their skins and she cleaned the two baby squid.
Putting the salmon into cold water with spices and celery, she brought that up to the boil and then slipped in the tilapia for a couple of minutes.
Transfering some of the boiling fish stock to another pan, she added a couple of home made vegetable stock cubes, finely chopped carrots and a big handful of whole french beans, then for the last few minutes she added salmon pieces from the spine, a chunk of tilapia, the squid (don't over cook it otherwise you end up with rubbery rings!), then prawns went in with more spices and herbs.
OH SLURP-THE-DURP! She ladled some into a high sided bowl, added a bit of soya and ate it with chopsticks and then slurped the soup.. as you do in the privacy of your own kitchen.
I am crazy-daisy about beans cooked this way and also ate carrots and fish.
The prawn shells went back into the mother pot and this has hubbled and bubbled for three hours on a low heat. It will be spectacular tomorrow and she will freeze the remaining soup and goodies.
All this, with not one fattening element in sight, for £4.60! Go immediately, if not sooner, and find a proper fishmonger, our's is in the North End Road Market and is called Fulham Fish. They mind not at all if you only want two prawns! Nice men. Good fish.
She spent time today speaking to other PR people, she got some wonderful stuff coming as prizes for the summer barbecue on August 29th. Not one company said "no" and today's tally is two theatre tickets for a west end very popular show, tea for two at a great west hotel, some book tokens, gift vouchers from a famous perfume company, store vouchers from three BIG high street shops and a couple of vouchers for lunch or dinner at two restaurants.
Plus Morrisons have agreed to donate all the food and drink for the fundraising barbecue! They are an incredibly generous and highly philanthropic store.
One thing she has to remember to do is to organise the alcohol license for the barbecue from Lambeth Council. And who knows what amazing things she will ask companies to donate tomorrow? There will be more goodies that's for sure! Last year they raised over £800.00 in three hours, this year they'll beat that with all of these spectacular gifts being offered as raffle prizes!
We are off to read a book and spend a quiet evening. She read a book last night that made her weep. A much beloved friend of Constance and Hugo was a man called Denys Yates, he was captured by the Japanese, contracted TB, treated appallingly and never spoke about it except to Hugo, her father.. you never served Denys white rice..
This book is the true story of Louie Zamperini, a very famous American runner, whose B24 plane was shot down by a Japanese fighter plane, he and his pilot and another crew member survived for over forty days on a raft, which was strafed by a Japanese Zero fighter.. grrr.. ugh.
They lost Mac.. but Phil, the pilot, and Louie survived only to captured by the Japanese and were held without the Red Cross being alerted. They were treated brutally. The story tells in great detail of what level of inhumanity and cruelty was levelled towards the prisoners and the sadistic torture they experienced. No wonder Denys never talked about it..
The War Crimes board in the Hague stll search for old Nazis and, of course, for the people on both sides who were responsible for atrocities committed during the Serb / Croat war in the early 1990's.
But Japan.. whose treatment of all prisoners of war was of the vilest sort.. ah well.. big business after the war was vital to the economy and so it was decided to pardon their war criminals in the early 1950's.
Her parents were very active throughout WW2 and the Malay Emergency and they both said "that whereas they 'might' forgive, they would never forget what both Germany and Japan had did to the world".
Oi vey..
GeeGee Parrot.
July 16th, 2015.
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