Goddamn it we are still here. The end of the world, once again, did not come to pass.
And I laid a bet with Paddy Power that a massive meteor would hit Brighton and wipe out the whole of Western Europe, forcing the USA to forge a new ‘Special Relationship’ with Sierra Leone. The odds on that happpening were 2500-1, I mean with a dead-cert like that how could I lose?
But, unbelievably, lose I did. So I made my go-to ‘dish of condolence’ – honey and mustard salmon with fondant potatoes. To be honest i’ve posted these two items several times, but never together so that kind of makes it okay.
This dish is straightforward, using simple ingredients, just right for a post-apocalyptic event right?
Salmon
- Two tail-end salmon fillets, pin-boned
- English mustard
- Honey
- White wine
- Olive oil
- Butter
- Dried dill tips
- Lemon juice
- Salt and Pepper
Fondant Potato
- Baking potatoes
- White wine
- Onions
- Butter
- Stock
- 1 bulb of garlic
- Olive oil
First get the garlic ready. Cut the top off the bulb. Place it in some foil and then drizzle some olive oil over the top. Grind some pepper over it:
Wrap the foil around the bulb and then put in the oven at 180 centigrade for about half an hour. Next the potatoes. Peel them and then use a food tube to cut out potato tubes:
Melt some butter in a pan. Add the potato, on a low heat and start cooking. Add some sliced onion and continue to cook, turning the potato and onion so it doesn’t stick:
Cover the pan and continue to cook on a low heat. Add the stock and wine and let simmer, turning the potato every now and then:
Meanwhile get the salmon ready; put the fish in a foil lined baking tray with butter, oil and wine:
Add the lemon, herb, mustard and honey:
Wrap the fish in the foil and pop in the oven (for about 15 mins). Get the garlic out and squeeze the melting garlic out of the bulb. Add to the potato:
Now its just a matter of serving up: Put a piece of salmon on a plate. Spoon some of the caramelised onion onto the plate and then place a fondant potato on top of the onion:
That’s not a giant scallop, it’s a potato!
That pooling oil is in fact melted butter so that makes it alright. And I’ve decided I can wait until the next catastrophe, so in the meantime I’ll keep cooking.
Oh wow! I have never seen that done to a potato, but it looks and sounds amazing 🙂
Definitely try it – delicious way to eat potato
What a great way to prepare potatoes! This is new to me, I’ve not even seem them like this in a restaurant! Awesome.. and the salmon would have been the perfect accompaniment. If I had a last dinner.. this would be it! Merry Christmas!! xx
Yes fondant potatoes are supposed to have the texture of creamy mash but without the mashing
Fancy food tubing 🙂 Looks absolutely wonderful.
And don’t we Yanks already have a special relationship with Sierra Leone? Or am I confusing my West African nations?
You probably do. Although what kind of special relationship it is i’m not sure…
The salmon looks delicious! Love the fondant potato! It does look like a giant scallop 🙂 I need to purchase a food tube!!
Yes every cook needs a food tube. And a KitchenAid – that’s on the wish list – v expensive!
Laughing, they will be on my wish list forever 🙂
Great food tube engineering. Without boasting, I have some serious engineering appearing in January.
Best,
Conor
Cant wait to see that
Like your use of the food tube with the risotto and now potato.
I was wondering if the Mayas were thinking GMT (guess not – you’re still here) or Mexico City time? Anyway, we’re still waiting in our time zone.
Yes I will have to deal with Christmas now, nothing is going to stop it
Have to disagree.
End of the world would require prime rib
You got me there.
I think all your dishes are better than “okay”! And “happy end of the world – NOT!”
very kind although I’m wishing fire and pestilence on the company that has not delivered an online order i made for Xmas
Very cool how you did those potatoes. I’m sorry you lost that bet, seemed like a good one to me but depending on when you posted, you could still collect. Just in case, you see that tin foil you used? Fold it into a nice tin foil hat – I’ve been wearing one all day & so far I’m good so it must work.
yes a good way to keep government from reading your thoughts via brain waves apparently
Well I woke up this morning so the tin foil must work but if the world did end & I landed in a new one, it looks exactly like the old one – including the bills I put off paying.
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I saw potatoes and fish and was immediately reminded of the latke and smoked trout recipe I recently posted on my blog. Potaotes, fish, and onions…what a simple and awesome combination…cooked so many ways!
yes all good simple stuff
That looks just mouth watering! Thank you for sharing that recipe with us.
yes its quite nice