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hangover fish pie

9 October 2010 by Dominic Franks

… down in London this weekend due to work load… big event with the Koreans on Monday (more of that next week…) and i’m fortunate enough to have some very good friends who are glad to have me snore on their spare bed for the odd weekend… The Viking and I used to live next door to Jenny and George back in the 90’s… back in our heady club days… and there would be many a Sunday when we’d all gather hung-over  in one of our kitchens waiting for a chicken to roast…

… last night Jenny and I went out for a bit of a boogie and today we’re both pretty much broken…

… so today an easy, but exceptionally tasty meal was called for and I could think of nothing better than fish pie.  We’ve slightly cheated with the mash potato topping… courtesy of Jenny’s inspiration, via Delia and some frozen Aunt Bessie’s mash… but all the other ingredients were freshly prepared… I mean for goodness sake, who can be bothered with mashing potatoes..? and like I say, we are broken!



recipe for a very large pie for 3 broken people

300g salmon
300g smoked haddock
300g black bream (although you could use any other plain white fish… we just found a good deal)
280g organic, raw tiger prawns

3 medium leeks
1 small fennel
a handful of frozen peas
1 tablespoon capers
2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
2 teaspoons English mustard
a glass of white wine
1 pint milk
1/2 pint Marigold Bouillon
2 tablespoons plain flour
some strong cheddar – grated
3 bay leaves
a handful of chopped chives
a handful of chopped parsley
s and p

– place all the fish, except for the prawns, into an oven-proof dish, add the bay leaves, cover with the milk and bake in a hot oven for 6-10 minutes – the fish should be just undercooked and you’ll have wonderful stock for your sauce

– saute the leeks and fennel in butter until tender and then place in your pie dish

– once the fish is done, drain the milk (but keep it for the sauce) and place it into the pie dish with the leeks and fennel… add the un-cooked prawns, peas, the chopped capers, the chives and parsley

– melt about 4 teaspoons of butter in a heavy pan and then, off the heat, add the flour and stir until the butter is absorbed and it becomes a thick paste, gently heat this for about 2 mins until it turns dark golden  and smells slightly nutty.

– poor the poaching milk into the made up veg-stock and add a glass of white wine.  Slowly add this to the butter and flour paste, stirring all the time until you have a glossy, runny, sauce… at this stage it should be the consistency of single cream, but it will thicken

– you can turn the heat up now slightly but continue to stir and cook until it thickens to your desired consistency.. add the grated cheese and the mustards until it tastes how you want it to taste… we went slightly mustard-tastic because we need the punch to wake us up a bit!

– poor the sauce onto the fish pie and very gently mix it up… you want keep big chunks of fish

– place the frozen slabs of potato onto the top and bake in a hot oven for about 30 mins… don’t forget to to fork the potato half way through cooking and grate some more cheese on top for extra cheesy crispy-ness.

totally perfect, intensely rich, easy peasy, fish pie loveliness… slightly less broken…

eat and of course, enjoy!

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  1. From Beyond My Kitchen Window says

    9 October 2010 at 8:32 pm

    Hang-over or not that fish pie looks so delicious. I have never seen smoked haddock around my grocery store I might have to try a foreign market. Hope your pie made you feel better.LOL

  2. Dom at Belleau Kitchen says

    9 October 2010 at 8:36 pm

    thanks… how about using smoked salmon instead? Or kippers?

  3. Ocean Breezes and Country Sneezes says

    10 October 2010 at 1:20 am

    Wow, that pie looks great! I think you have more interesting ingredients in the UK than we do in the States. I hope you drank lots of water to counter act that hang-over! LOL!!

  4. Emmalene says

    10 October 2010 at 10:05 am

    That looks fab…I've never tried cheese in a fish pie before, but it sounds great. I agree with 'from beyond my kitchen window'…you wouldn't need a hangover to make this!

  5. Victoria says

    10 October 2010 at 10:37 am

    Dom….continually amazed! i managed to do some baking totally hungover (or perhaps still tipsy) on Saturday, which resulted in a serious burn on the top of my hand from the oven…hope your hangover adventure was accident free! 🙂 x

  6. Brownieville Girl says

    10 October 2010 at 10:27 pm

    Hope the pie fixed you!!

  7. Liz says

    11 October 2010 at 3:54 pm

    I never thought of cooking the fish like that -and will from now on.The one problem with fish pie is the vast amount of washing up it creates – your way saves at least one pan -and the frozen mash even more – and I love fish pie – it's our traditional Christmas Eve supper.

  8. Dan says

    11 October 2010 at 8:00 pm

    Looks delicious! But can you tell me what “frozen Aunt Bessie's mash” is? ps…One of my favorite substitutes for mashed potato topping for these types of dishes is mashed cauliflower – I usually keep a bag in the freezer for such occasions.

  9. freerangegirl says

    11 October 2010 at 8:23 pm

    Looks great Dom hope you're feeling better – I don't know about you but it takes me more than the morning after to recover nowadays! Glad to see you've still got a bolthole in the city – i couldn't move back now but I do love to visit!

  10. Emmalene says

    12 October 2010 at 7:39 pm

    Oh…and Happy 40th birthday, and congrats on your TV debut xx

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