The Mighty Monkfish Stuck, as I am, watching the rain (absolute stair rods as Paddington might say) batter the windows of the departure lounge in a Balkan airport, I have been afforded the opportunity to write a new blog. We’ve been in Montenegro for a week; a land of unbelievable beauty and whose people haveContinue reading “How to Prepare Monkfish Like a Pro”
Category Archives: Fish
Homemade Smoked Salmon
Now we are trudging into the teeth of Winter, I always find it helpful to focus on positives. I will admit that I find it difficult to get used to leaving for work and coming home in the dark, but one of the things I can look forward to is it is becoming chilly enoughContinue reading “Homemade Smoked Salmon”
The Fire Cage
The Fire Cage Polly and I went backpacking around Argentina 20 years ago. It was a transformative experience for me in many ways, not least in the pure joy to be had in going to a restaurant where the menu only consisted of about 10 courses of meat. You name it. Bif de Chorizo, BifContinue reading “The Fire Cage”
Fish Friday
Happy new year! Friday night is usually a fairly low-key night in for us, but the week before Christmas Polly invited a couple of mates round and ordered a box of delights from Pesky Fish. If you’ve not come across them, they are a business which aims to cut out the middle man between theContinue reading “Fish Friday”
Post March 29th fun
Until I had my first glass of beer at Tom and Grace’s house, I’m not sure I had really appreciated or comprehended the extent to which I missed the simple pleasure of the company of other people. Sure, I am back at work and see friends from there all the time, but conversations tend toContinue reading “Post March 29th fun”
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