Weekend Specials

Scallops, Black Pudding & Pea Puree
Cook the black pudding & peas as per packet and in your preferred way. Heat the frying pan to make it very hot, add butter and crushed garlic and sear the scallops. Best way to do this is work the frying pan like a clock face and as you came back to the top then it is time to turn them. They only take around a minute each side (depending [...]

Karen’s scrumptious fish pie
A family favourite that will get everybody around the dinner table.




Baked Cod with Butter Beans & Vine Tomatoes
A rustic flavoursome high-protein treat.

Trout baked in salt
Preheat the oven to 180C. Gut and thoroughly clean the trout, and wipe it with the paper towel until dry. Stuff some herbs inside (dill works well, but I had only fresh sage yesterday, so I added a few sage leaves instead). Take a ceramic dish or a foil tray long enough for the fish to fit, but not too wide. Pour half of the salt on the tray in [...]

10 minute Haddock Curry
Boil a pan of water for the rice. While this is boiling empty the curry paste into a pan, you don’t need to add anything as an oil is included, cook gently over a low heat for a few minutes. Add half a tin of coconut milk and mix, leave the sauce on a low heat while you add the salt, a pinch of turmeric and basmati rice to the [...]

Sea bass and Caponata
This Caponata recipe is from Complete Italian Food by Antonio Carluccio

Creamy Tagliatelle with prawns and spinach
To begin… Lightly fry the chopped onion and fresh prawns with butter until translucent on a low heat pan. Next, add the chopped garlic and fry for a further 2 minutes. Add ½ of the white wine and let simmer for 1 minute, then add in the cream and remaining white wine*. Let this simmer so that the wine is reduced and flavours are absorbed. Be careful not to have [...]


