Because I lack any real cooking facilities until I move into Casa Turchese (Jan. 7th! Woot!), my dear friend Helen has kindly volunteered her kitchen and cooking skills. She even New Zealandised the recipe...here is her review of last week's recipe:
Who can resist trying out a recipe with “Slippery Cabbage” in the title? Unfortunately I had no slippery cabbage, let alone a puzzle of it, but I did have a three-week-old remnant of red cabbage sitting forlornly on the bench (Editor's note: Clearly my bad behavior re: ignoring my cabbage for weeks on end has rubbed off on poor Helen. Anyway, continue on). For a low saturated fat option I went with a can of coconut flavoured evaporated milk (like a true kiwi dairy lass), a curious mix, but quite tasty and much easier than scooping out coconuts themselves (I imagine, having never scooped out a coconut)(Editor's note: I have...its hard work!). In went the finely sliced red cabbage, some chopped red onion, a dash of chilli powder, a chopped tomato and some spring onion (no shallots in cupboard either) (Editor's rant: THE OUTRAGE! NO SHALLOTS! WHAT KIND OF SHODDY CHEF ARE YOU, HELEN???), finished off with a generous sprinkling of salt. Result: a tasty purple soup (Editor's note: ala Bridget Jones, who made blue soup.) To my surprise the soup was just as nice reheated gently the following day for lunch. Am looking forward to more recipes and will be stocking up on coconut flavoured evaporated milk in anticipation.
Okay that's the review. If you want to give this recipe a go, here is the link to last week's recipe:
http://stilettosinsolomons.blogspot.com/2010/12/solomon-island-recipe-of-week.html
Many thanks to Helen!
Now for this week's Solomon Island Recipe:
Fish Curry with Tomatoes:
You will need:
- 1 medium size fish (fresh fish/Snapper/Yellow fin tuna/Trout...whatever, it has to be fishy)
- 2 table spoons of curry powder
- 2 table spoons of oil (I think sesame seed oil would be nice with this but I have a fondness for the stuff...up to you, really)
- Tomatoes (go nuts...really, the recipe says any amount...)
- 1 bush lime (or a regular lime...bush lime is like regular lime only wild...WILD LIME!)
How to prepare:
1. Pour yourself a gin and tonic. You will thank me for it later.
2. Cut tomatoes into desired size (I have no idea what this means....I guess quarter the suckers)
3. Heat oil and add curry, stir under low heat.
4. Add tomatoes, stir...stir like the wind, damn you!
5. Add fish into the mixture; stir to allow mixture to coat the fish.
6. Cook them very slowly on low fire (I assume that means heat but in the Solomons, it DOES usually mean fire) till the fish is cooked.
7. Add salt/pepper to taste.
8. Make sure to eat the fish head. I'm a big advocate of eating fish heads; they are tasty and highly underrated. The eyes are especially yumtastic!
9. Pour another gin and tonic and/or mojito.
That's this week's recipe...next week: Christmas Feast: Solomon Style!
Till then, wear you stilettos and keep rockin on.
S
