Main: Salmon & Potato Fishcakes
Delicious Magazine – March 2020 (Yotam Ottolenghi)
Dessert: Chocolate Cake
Own recipe
Hi Everyone!
Well this month’s Delicious Mag is filled with some super wonderful recipes that to my way of thinking are family friendly with just a little bit of tweaking. Okay, I should clarify that statement. Remember I said way back at the start of my blogging adventure that I would try to bring you recipes that don’t require weird and wonderful ingredients that are only available in far flung suburbs of each city. Well, as much as I absolutely love the recipes in delicious, sometimes they do require these sort of ingredients and need a little adjusting.
So, anyway, these fishcakes are really going to be a crowd pleaser for you. Even the MAV was happy. I made them as a main but you can also make them smaller and serve them as a nibble with drinks. This is definitely something I am going to try as well. As always I have included the original recipe so you can make your own choices but I want to explain a few things here. It requires store bought cooked skinless salmon – I decided to use the super convenient system at Woolies whereby they put the salmon fillets into a cook-in bag (with a teriyaki and ginger blob) and I took it home and cooked it myself. This added another level of flavour to the fishcakes with the marinade from the bag. Once cooked and cooled I just flaked it. The recipe also requires dried wakame seaweed which is available from Asian food stores. I decided to leave this out altogether as I don’t have an Asian food store nearby but if you do then please include it in your attempt at this. The slight downside to the recipe is that it uses a large amount of potato. Some baked and some boiled but I can say without a doubt that the potato does not flood the flavour. Please also be sure to get the Thai basil as the flavour is totally different from everyday basil and it just makes such a difference. Whilst preparing these fishcakes, the smell from the basil, lime, ginger and garlic was just delightful.
The dipping sauce is light and could really be used for so many things in my view. It was very easy and it was light, which is nice for a change. It incorporated some fish and ticked quite a few boxes in the taste department. 9/10….. not too shabby!
Dessert was a chocolate cake that I have been cooking for around 30 years. It is a one bowl deal and it freezes beautifully. I use to cut it up and put the frozen pieces in the kids lunchboxes. (This was before people were going nuts over sugar – such a bad mum…..). I did a cake because it was my sister’s birthday and we were celebrating it with her. Not a lot to say about this except that it is versatile and easy. Plus everyone loves it served with cream and strawberries! 10/10
