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| Recipe of the week... ... Cod & Potato Salad |
Ingredients: 300g baby potatoes, 80g baby spinach leaves, 2
large eggs, 240g pack of cod loins, zest and juice of ½ lemon, 2 tablespoons crème
fraiche, handful of fresh parsley, salt and pepper.
Serves: 2 platefuls of grub
Time taken: Half an hour max
Hi readers,
How are you all today? Are you enjoying a lovely relaxing Sunday?
Did you have a confusing start to the day, trying to figure out the time, or
did you spring forward with confidence?? I’ll admit, I basically just missed
the morning. Had a mammoth lie in and woke up not sure of the month or year,
let alone the hour.
But I feel good for it! I’m feeling great today… enjoying a
lazy Sunday morning. How about you, readers, how are you feeling today? The sun’s
shining, we’re treated to warm temperatures outside, and there are daffodils
and hot cross buns and Easter eggs… and yet, as ever, it’s fine to feel up or
down or like you’re spinning all around. How are you doing?
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
I come bearing food for thought, readers. This is what I’ve
been pondering this week…
So, I’m a big believer in the importance of dreams. And happenings,
occurrences and feelings. I wonder – does anything happen by chance, without
reason? Or is it all, every little thing, a collection of signs and indications,
nudging you in the right direction with life? Keeping you on track?
For instance. If something goes right the first time, I
don’t question that it was meant to happen. As it feels right, and it went
right. Say, if I write a sentence or a paragraph and it just fits onto a line
in my word document – no single word leftover on a new line. Or, if I walk into
a shop with change in my purse and find the thing I’m looking for, at exactly
the right price.
Then, if something doesn’t go right the first time but it
feels as though it’s the right thing to do, I don’t fall at the first hurdle –
I’ll persevere, and I’ll do my best to make it happen. For instance, when I
first took up knitting, I tried and failed at following YouTube tutorials for
hours and went to bed frustrated, with only a few rows of knitting complete.
Then, with a fire in my belly, I tried again and learned how it’s done.
But, sometimes, something doesn’t go right the first time.
And then I get a feeling that maybe this is a sign – that it wasn’t meant to be
and isn’t meant to be. I get the idea that life intervened, and probably with
good reason. This is not something I should pursue. It’s a no go. And so, I change tack. So to speak… I give up on it.
What do you think, readers? Do you get the feeling that a
helping hand is steering you, every now and then? Do you let your gut instincts
guide you in life? Do you pay attention to your spidey senses when they tingle?
Do you feel sure of the way forward at times, without reason or despite not
exactly knowing why?
Or do you press on, and think with your head? Use logic to
guide your actions – not bother with such nonsense? Not waste your time following
whims as they feed through from your subconscious? Not letting these affect
your decisions or limit the life you lead?
I wonder, which is the more sensible way to live? Is one
better than the other?
I wonder and wonder. Please share your thoughts, readers!
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RECIPE TIME
And I’ll share a recipe. As well as wondering this week, I’ve
been cracking on with a recipe or two from the March edition of the Co-op’s
Food magazine. Regular readers will know I’m a BIG Fan of the Coop’s recipe mag
and this Spring edition hasn’t disappointed.
Today I’m writing to share a simple,
delicious recipe which I tried out with great success this week, for a Cod
& Potato Salad. You can throw one together in just ten straightforward steps…
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Recipe of the week: Cod
& Potato Salad
Ingredients: 300g baby potatoes, 80g baby spinach leaves, 2
large eggs, 240g pack of cod loins, zest and juice of ½ lemon, 2 tablespoons crème
fraiche, handful of fresh parsley, salt and pepper.
1.
Set some groovy tunes playing, pour yourself a
refreshing bev, and turn your bloody phone off!
2.
Set a kettle boiling and put the potatoes in a
pan. Fill with water from the kettle, bring to the boil, cover and simmer for
15 minutes, until your potatoes are tender.
3.
Chop a lemon in half and grate the zest of half
your lemon. Finely chop and handful of fresh parsley leaves.
4.
Set the kettle boiling again. Put the eggs and cod
in a large saucepan, fill with water from the kettle, cover with a lid, and simmer
for 5 minutes.
5.
After around five minutes, once your cod is opaque
and cooked through, remove with a slotted spoon and break into pieces. Pop the
fish in a serving dish with the lemon zest.
6.
After another minute, remove the eggs from the
pan and transfer to a bowl of cold water. When cool, remove the shells, roughly
chop the eggs and add them to the serving dish.
7.
Next, add the spinach to your potato pan for the
last 2 minutes of cooking, then drain together with the potatoes.
8.
Add the crème fraiche and half the parsley to
your serving dish and mix the contents until well combined.
9.
Slice the potatoes and add to the dish along
with the wilted spinach.
10. Squeeze
over the juice from your zested half-lemon, mix everything together once more, and
garnish with the remaining parsley. Serve!
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What do you reckon, readers? Would you have a try at this
recipe? Do is sound do-able and tasty enough for you to want to give it a go? I
highly recommend!
Cod isn’t a fish I normally cook with, readers, and I would
never independently have though to combine these ingredients, but the dish came
out well. I had a warming, classic tea, with strong flavours and lots of nutrition.
It filled me up and it’s good to eat something different! I thoroughly enjoyed
the food.
Let me know, readers, if you take this recipe on – how did
it go?? Did you have fun in the kitchen? Were the steps easy to follow? Did
your food turn out well? And tasting good? Please send in all feedback and tips
for success! Wishing everyone the best of luck with this recipe, and a lovely
rest of your weekend, too.
Everything will be fine.
Boil safely,
Hayley
