Pesto is quite a strong flavour, but I think it goes with Salmon just excellently. You can do whatever veg you like with it, but this is the meal I prepared last night.
Ingredients
- 2x Salmon fillet (steaks if you have lots of money!)
- Small jar of Pesto
- 4-5 British potatoes
- A courgette
- Milk
- Butter
- About 4 cloves of Garlic
Instructions
Prepare the Salmon by using a spoon to spread Pesto sauce on top in a thin layer (or if you really love Pesto, a thick layer!). Add a touch of salt & pepper. Slice courgettes, and dice up the garlic into tiny little bits, or use a garlic press… Peel and chop up potatoes into quarters.
Boil potatoes as normal until soft (I usually boil them slightly longer so they fall apart a bit easier). Mash with a tad of milk (or cream if you feel adventurous!), and butter. Salmon should be grilled for some time - I’m not sure how long as I undercooked ours last night, but use common sense here! Finally, fry the courgettes in butter for a minute or so, add the garlic, and turn up medium-high.
It’s a simple dish, but I still managed to undercook the salmon, oops!! Very tasty though.
My love of garlic should be fairly obvious by now… this is a quick and easy dish I made last night using my new steamer.
Ingredients
- New Potatoes
- Broccoli
- 2 Pork chops
- About half a garlic
- Soy sauce
- Half a courgette
Instructions
As I said, this is a very simple dish. Steam the potatoes and broccoli (start the potatoes first as they take longer, and add broccoli later). Make several small slits with a sharp knife into the raw pork chops. Chop up the garlic into lumps, and just push them into the slits. Springle just a tiny bit of soy sauce on the chops. The rest of the garlic you can grind for cooking. Cut the half a courgette into medium thin slices. Heat up a frying pan and melt a knob of butter in it. Fry the courgettes for a minute or two. Move them to the sides of the frying pan, and put the pork chops in the frying pan. Cook for just a few minutes either side, and serve.
I made this the other day, and it’s basically my English twist on the french dish Tartiflette.
Ingredients
- 4 slices unsmoked English bacon
- 4-6 English potatoes (not big potatoes though!)
- Pot of sour cream (I used about 200g of crème fraîche)
- 1 onion
- Lots of garlic
- Mild cheddar cheese
Instructions
Peel the potatoes, boil or steam them until cooked (do the normal knife test, if it seems too hard, keep cooking). While they are cooking, slice up onions, bacon and garlic. Fry the onions and garlic for a few minutes, then add the bacon. When potatoes are cooked, let them cool down completely. Butter an oven dish. Thickly slice the potatoes, lay half of them in the dish. Put half of the onion/bacon mix in. Put half a pot of sour cream in. and spread til covered. Lay the other half of potatoes, then the rest of the onion/bacon mix, then the rest of the sour cream. On top of it all, cover it in sliced (or grated) cheese. Place in a very hot preheated oven (240 degrees in fan-assisted oven) and leave for about 10-15 minutes until the cheese on top starts browning.
My absolute favourite dish in the whole world, one I learnt from my Mum. I’m not going to put the full recipe up here, but this is more of a homage to say thanks for teaching me this recipe! I’ll put my hints up though to remind myself…
- Add 6 slices of bacon or more to get the juices going better
- Don’t use the large tubs of sauce
- Don’t use too much pasta
- Use lots of garlic. Lots and lots of garlic. Add more garlic if at all possible. Add a garnish of garlic.
