Last night (Saturday) I made a deliciously simple tea. In Scouse, “tea”
is what southerners or poshers call “dinner”. Dinner is something we eat at dinnertime. At school we had dinnnerladies, not lunchladies. Ergo dinner is something eaten around midday, and tea is eaten at teatime. Let’s not get any deeper into this!
So I place a bed of salad leaves and shredded beetroot on the plate. On top of that went some Parma ham, and atop that sat some olive oil drizzled grilled goats cheese and grilled figs. But of olive oil and balsamic vinegar over it and some fresh ground black pepper Nothing to it at all but really delicious.
Tonight I cooked Sicilian White Fish and Pasta. The recipe is a Gary Rhodes one that he did with monkfish on skewers, but I cook with what I have in, so it was mixed cod and haddock, marinated in olive oil (5floz), 16 sage leaves, 1clove of garlic, 1tbsp each of parsley and basil and nearly all the juice of a lemon and yhd usual salt and pepper all balanced with a teaspoon if sugar.
Cod and haddock does not skewer well so it was cooked in a frying pan with few tablespoons of water so it didn’t overcook to dryness, more of a gentle poaching. Anyway, it was no Sunday roast dinner but it was pretty damn tasty.
