Aug 18 2009
Great wee tea
With Dougal swotting for a qualification at the mo (CCNA if you’re interested) I have agreed to be super-supportive by making tea every night whilst he gets his head into the books from 6:30-7:30. This has the bonus for me that, having got stuck in a rut somewhat with cooking (you might have noticed by the lack of blogging!) I feel some impetus to cook originally again. Follow recipes, that sort of thing.
This beetroot salsa recipe came from the BBC Good Food website. I didn’t serve it with ‘firm white fish’ (which, if the picture is anything to go by means something like cod) but with lemon sole, as it was reduced to clear at the fish counter and about a quarter of the price of anything else. Can’t fight economics. I also didn’t use ready-cooked beetroot, but peeled and cooked my own. (I clearly haven’t been looking after my hands of late; there are now clearly visible dry patches stained brown by the beetroot juices!)
The composition wasn’t quite as the recipe suggested; I halved the recipe, meaning it to only do the two of us, but then forgot or didn’t halve the beetroot amounts- in fact I probably used more than was called for. The pieces weren’t as small as they might have been either, as I was cutting it up hot whilst in a hurry as the fish was ready. So this was probably more of a beetroot salad than a salsa.
It was yummy, in any case. Went great with the fish (just panfried after dipping in seasoned flour) and I took the advice of a commenter on the recipe page and served mashed potato on the side. I might pare back the spring onion in future, but that’s only because raw spring onion increasingly seems to upset my insides. If you were a raw spring onion fan I don’t suppose it would be a problem.
sounds yummy
People do over-do the spring onion in my opinion. I had the Belly Pork thing which Dougal had at Pink Olive before we went to Broken Records. TOO much spring onion (and dill, too… another of my overdone IMHO things) though strangely I scoffed the lot.