Blue Eyed Cod with Caper & Herb Crust & Warm Chocolate and Caramel Puddings

Main:  Blue Eyed Cod with Caper &Herb Crust
Women’s Weekly Dinner Party Cookbook No. 3

Dessert:  Warm Chocolate & Caramel Puddings
Women’s Weekly The Baking Collection

Hi Everyone,

Well, winter certainly is the time to enjoy sharing a meal with friends and family.  Now, that restrictions are lifting we can do this and appreciate it like we have never appreciated it before.  What better way than to cook something from the Women’s Weekly collection of sensational cookbooks.

This week I have gone back to the Dinner Party Books.  They always bring back such incredible memories for me.  However, on reflection, I do wonder about the pressure women put themselves under in the early 80’s.  We seemed to feel the need to be married, keep an immaculate house, have babies, work at least part-time and then entertain like pros on the weekend.  What. were. we. thinking??  I can laugh now but boy back then I was chasing my tail like so many others were.

Now, this Blue Eyed Cod is from a menu marked “Smart & Simple”.  Very catchy, love it.  I need to start by saying that I feel  a bit of a fraud because when I went to the fish monger, the blue eyed cod was horrendously expensive so I bought perch.  You could, of course, do this with any fish but just adjust the cooking time because the blue eyed cod is quite thick.   The smell of the crumbs is wonderful as there are so many components.  Mustard, pine nuts, lemon, honey, herbs, capers and parmesan cheese.

I’m going to be using this crust with many things, not just fish. You need to mix the crumbs well because of the wet ingredients clumping up.  I followed all the suggestions and made the salsa and the tartare sauce.  What a treat to have homemade tartare because it’s not something I normally do.  It makes a ton so you can keep it in an airtight container for a few days.  I felt the salsa had far too much onion in it so if I was to make it again I would reduce that but I was thinking that if mangoes were in season, then a mango salsa would work beautifully with the fish as well.

The fries, of course, went down very well with the MAV and I picked up these little wire baskets from K-Mart for $2 which made it all look a little more professional. You know, it was simple just as the title suggests. 8/10

Dessert, as you can see from the picture was delectable.  It’s very hard to go wrong with warm chocolate pudding teamed with ice-cream and cream.   This dessert was simple, albeit, last minute to prepare and there was silence whilst consumed.

That just about says it all doesn’t it.  MAV was in heaven. 9/10.

Until next week.

From my table to your with love x