Home made smoked mackerel pate

 

 

I love mackerel and lately, I have been buying this in a tub from Tesco’s. Mackerel is full of omega 3 and really good for you. Over Christmas I am going to try and make my own, it looks easy. I love this with wholewheat or garlic pitta bread cut up into strips and dipped in, it goes really well with red wine :)    

Smoked Mackerel Pâté 

Preparation Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients: Serves 4
250g ready to use smoked mackerel
150ml sour cream
2 teaspoons of fresh chopped coriander
2 teaspoons of fresh parsley
Half a hot green pepper finely chopped (without seeds)
1 large garlic clove finely chopped
Fresh ground pepper and sea salt to taste
1 teaspoon of fresh lemon juice

Cooking Instructions:

1. Simply flake the Mackerel into small pieces in a mixing bowl with a fork or your hands.

2. Mix with the remaining ingredients, the mixture will be soft but will firm up if kept somewhere cool for a short while.

3. Serve with bread, toast or crisp bread

Christmas White chocolate fudge

 

I have been up with the larks this morning, hubby had to take his car into the garage for 9 am, his brake pads need replacing!!! I had to defrost my car and collect him, ds2 (11 years) woke up full of cold and has spent the morning in his pj’s in front of the xbox360 playing on test drive!!

I have caught up with all the household chores and I have the drier on out back, so I can iron tommorow. I have just made some curried parsnip soup and some sweetcorn chowder, its still very cold here and we need warming foods!

I have been flicking through the Radio Times, Christmas edition and I have noticed that my favourite film, ‘It’s a wonderfull life’ isn’t on this year :(  so quite disappointed about that. I really like James Stewart and I love old black and white movies like that one.

Karen has requested a easy recipe for white chocolate fudge, this one looks really simple and no fuss to make:

    

Christmas White Chocolate Fudge Bars

Degree of difficulty: Medium

You need:

WHITE CHOCOLATE FUDGE BARS
370 gm white chocolate buttons
400 gm condensed milk
1/2 cup sifted icing sugar
 

Method:

1. Place white chocolate buttons and condensed milk in a heatproof basin and stir over simmering water until chocolate has melted

2. Remove from heat

3. Stir in icing sugar through mixture

4. Grease small loaf tin and line it with baking paper

5. Place mixture in tin

6. Refrigerate overnight

7. Remove from tin, peel back paper and cut into 1 cm - thick slices

Serving Suggestion: Wrap each slice in clear cellophane, twist cellophane at each end and tie with ribbon