Experimental Cooking
Jun. 18th, 2010 04:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gemfyreLast night was another case of, "What do we have in the house? Let's get a few things and mix them together." It was a particularly successful one I think.
Smoked Fish Linguine
Smoked fish (ours was hake, but cod, haddock, whatever - my mum always just called it 'orange fish'
Fennel - finely sliced
Evaporated milk
Sundried tomatoes
Garlic (we had some garlic infused oil hanging around in the fridge)
Mixed herbs (we had some garlic/herb butter I'd made the night before leftover. The herbs were Italian Herbs from a squeezy tube).
Linguine pasta
Parmesan cheese
Matt added nasty things like onion and chilli to his.
I sauteed the fennel in the garlic oil and herb and garlic butter until it got a bit soft then poured over most of the evaporated milk (and quickly sculled the rest, man I love evaporated milk!) and let it cook for a bit to thicken up.
Meanwhile we cooked up the pasta and did the fish in the microwave - about 4 minutes on a plate with a bit of water over them and plastic wrap. Worked fine.
Once the pasta was cooked I drained it and added some to the frypan with the fennel mixture and combined it. I threw in a few sundried tomatoes and a fillet of the fish, which I broke up as I mixed it in. Top it with grated parmesan and eat! Yummo. Will have to make this again sometime.
Smoked Fish Linguine
Smoked fish (ours was hake, but cod, haddock, whatever - my mum always just called it 'orange fish'
Fennel - finely sliced
Evaporated milk
Sundried tomatoes
Garlic (we had some garlic infused oil hanging around in the fridge)
Mixed herbs (we had some garlic/herb butter I'd made the night before leftover. The herbs were Italian Herbs from a squeezy tube).
Linguine pasta
Parmesan cheese
Matt added nasty things like onion and chilli to his.
I sauteed the fennel in the garlic oil and herb and garlic butter until it got a bit soft then poured over most of the evaporated milk (and quickly sculled the rest, man I love evaporated milk!) and let it cook for a bit to thicken up.
Meanwhile we cooked up the pasta and did the fish in the microwave - about 4 minutes on a plate with a bit of water over them and plastic wrap. Worked fine.
Once the pasta was cooked I drained it and added some to the frypan with the fennel mixture and combined it. I threw in a few sundried tomatoes and a fillet of the fish, which I broke up as I mixed it in. Top it with grated parmesan and eat! Yummo. Will have to make this again sometime.
