Fishwife Recipes — fresh fish

So I’ve discovered that juggling life as a wife and new mom is rather time consuming. One has very little time for cooking anything elaborate, if anything at all! Trying to shuffle between watching over a tiny baby and spending time in the kitchen is almost impossible. This inspired me to create a really quick and easy one-pot-wonder which your hubby will love. For this recipe I used a slow cooker. It really is the best piece of equipment that any mom can own. It is very inexpensive and easy to use. This is a quick curry and only requires...

I’m back with a new recipe! I must apologize for the wait but I just recently changed my title from “wife” to “mother”.  Introducing our little girl, Lily, who seems to be enjoying partaking in creating our newest recipe with mom for The Fish Wife blog. There seems to be a new trend on the block… the Poke Bowl.  Poke (pronounced poh-keh), is an appetizer in Hawaiian cuisine which consists of a raw fish salad.  It can also be served as a main meal over steamed rice.  The word “Poke” in Hawaiian terms means “to slice or cut” which explains this dish perfectly as it...

  Technically this recipe should have been my very first post on The Fish Wife. It makes sense that it would be seeing as Tuna, especially Yellowfin Tuna, is pretty much the speciality of our family business, Greenfish. In my opinion there really isn’t anyone who lives, breathes and dreams about Tuna more than my hubby! The passion and knowledge from all of his years of experience dealing with this species of marine life means he knows exactly how to source the best of the best, and I am so privileged to be able to sample Cape Towns finest Tuna...

  In August this year we were fortunate enough to be invited by friends to join them and their families at their beach cottage in a secluded spot in the Transkei.  It was my first trip to the Transkei and I was overwhelmed by the beauty of this remote location which had us traveling a pretty intense 4×4 trail for over an hour before arriving at the coast.   Every morning the boys would gather their fishing and spearfishing gear and disappear into the horizon, off to catch our lunch and supper. The ladies would gather on the porch drinking their morning coffee and catching up...

There’s nothing nicer than a piece of crispy skin coating your flaky fish fillets and achieving this is a lot simpler than one thinks!  The trick is to follow a few simple rules:   1. Make sure your fillets are incredibly dry. 2. Make sure you season the fillets with fine table salt 5 minutes before frying to assist in removing any excess moisture from the fillets. 3. Make sure you use clarified butter to pan fry the fillets. 4. Make sure you use a plate or some form of a weight to keep the fillets flat in the pan to...