Fishwife Recipes

For this recipe, refer back to our simple method of smoking fish at home without using a smoker.  If you have a smoker at home, even better!  But for those of you who don’t, it will only take you a few minutes to use our method to create smokey, golden delicious Angel Fish to use in the following recipe. Smoked Angel Fish and Baby Potato Salad Ingredients 350g baby potatoes 100g crème fraîche 1 heaped tsp horseradish sauce / cream juice of 1 lemon or 3 Tbsp lemon juice 2 smoked angel fish fillets 1 bag of watercress, baby spinach...

On our honeymoon my husband and I travelled to the most gorgeous little island of Koh Samui, in Thailand. On one of our evenings exploring the island night life, we stumbled upon a restaurant (or should I say a giant hall with trestle tables and an open cooking station). With a name like “Ninja Crepes” we didn’t really know what to expect, but the hall was packed so we decided to give it a try. The food was out of this world with flavours and aromas I can only begin to describe. Ninja Crepes was definitely one of the highlights...

Because everyone loves butter and garlic… so why not! Grilled Dorado in a Lemon Butter Sauce Serves 4 Cook Time 12 min Ingredients FOR THE FISH 1 pack of Greenfish Dorado portions (1kg) 1 tablespoon Olive Oil 1 tablespoon Butter (melted) Salt & Pepper FOR THE SAUCE 6 tablespoons Butter 1 Shallot / small onion (chopped finely) 1 heaped teaspoon of Garlic (minced) 1/4 cup Chicken Stock 2 tablespoons lemon juice Instructions Preheat a grill to medium heat Place Dorado portions in a bowl and season with salt and pepper Drizzle the fish portions with olive oil and 1 tablespoon...

18th July 2016 | By TheFishWife 4 comments As a child I clearly remember collecting Black Mussels off the rocks at our holiday home in Port Alfred in the Eastern Cape.  We would walk up the beach and climb the rocks with our plastic packets collecting mussels and bringing them home to clean, removing the sand and beards in big buckets of fresh water.  I can still taste that fresh, salty sea flavour smothered in garlic and butter!Here is a simple recipe to create a restaurant quality Garlic Mussel Pot in a delicious white sauce, I hope you enjoy!   Garlic...

Squid is simply delicious, but who knew that such a small little creature of the ocean could hold such wonderful health benefits for our diet as it is loaded in the Vitamin B’s: Vitamin B2: The plentiful quantities of Vitamin B2 found in squid can lower migraines.  Vitamin B3: This fabulous vitamin helps to stabilise sugar levels in the blood. Vitamin B12: Here’s to a healthy heart with Vitamin B12 (riboflavin), which is known to lower homocysteine levels in the body, preventing the rate of strokes and heart attacks. So here is a simple recipe to quickly pan fry all these fabulous...