I have arrived

No Blog entries for a long time because my cooking has become so routine ! I now have a number of recipes that I know work, I don't have the spectacular failures and I no longer need to start preparing at 2 in the afternoon to eat at 6.

This week started with chicken breast stuffed with pesto and wrapped in bacon served with broccoli and salad. Tuesday was cheat day so it was tuna pasta bake with the sauce from a jar and served with salad. Wednesday was going to be grilled trout but when I went into town to buy the trout (at 4:30pm - hows that for calmness !) the fish shop was closed. So I went into the supermarket and bought some mixed fish (salmon, cod and haddock) for a fish pie.

Now the next bit is a first - I didn't follow a recipe for the fish pie but made it up as I went along (apart from the white sauce which BBC Food helped me with). I served it with carrots and salad and the result was really good - my very first meal made up by myself.

So I have decided to share this recipe so that others can enjoy it and have decided to use the same style of the inaccurate, misleading, assuming, ambiguous, complicated recipes I have mostly struggled to follow to date.

Ingredients:
A handful of potatoes
300g of mixed Melanogrammus aeglefinus, Salmonidae and Gadus
A slosh of olive oil
A bag of leeks
A twidge of seasoning
A bottle of milk of the size that used to be delivered to your door years ago
Beurre
Flour

Method:
Wrap the poisson in baking foil and place in the fridge gas mark 5, electric 200 degrees c or fan assisted washing machine 180 degrees and cook until the timer goes ping. The setting for the timer is the number of books in the New Testament minus the number of the shirt Roger Osborne wore when he scored the winning goal for Ipswich in the 1978 FA Cup final

Simultaneously, make the white sauce

Place the leeks into one of those metal things, add water that has been passed by the management and cook for a little while

Sorry - forgot to say that the potatoes should have gone on 5 minutes before you started anything else - whoops - sorry

Now - add the fish into the oven dish, cover with leeks, cover with potato and smother with white sauce

Take the potato and white sauce back out again - my mistake. Put  the white sauce back in again over the leeks and fish then mash the potato and spread on top. Add the grated cheese which wasn't one of the original ingredients

Place back in the fridge and cook until The Consort arrives home from her exercise class - simple !