http://peterdcox.me.uk Long time ramblings, rantings and sometimes serious stuff by Welsh immigrant from England Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:33:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://0.gravatar.com/blavatar/81040cb3b067af466bc81c59e243742d?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png http://peterdcox.me.uk http://peterdcox.me.uk/2007/10/18/retro-fishpate-with-twists/ http://peterdcox.me.uk/2007/10/18/retro-fishpate-with-twists/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:00:00 +0000 peterdcox http://peterdcox.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/retro-fishpate-with-twists/ ]]> Who – at least of my age – hasn’t made tons on smoked mackerel pate? And weren’t we so taken aback when they started doing fillets encrusted with pepper so that this good old sixties stand by could take on yet another life! All those cheffy variations too – adding fresh horseradish seemed positively cuisine minceur .. or not.
Fact is it’s good stuff, but it needs a bit of variation after fourty years. So I tried this one: the technique, as you all know, is simply to stuff the ingredients into the Magimix in order needing to be chopped. So start with some spring onions (half a red one would do nicely too) and a good handful of parsley (get of rid of the worst of the stems but don’t pick off every leaf – this is meant to be easy!); zapp. Pile in a box of philly like cream cheese (‘lite for us porkies) and a pack of smoked salmon pieces and two large or three smaller skinned smoked mackerel fillets (with peppers if you like). More zapp.
It should be spreadable, but with noticeable contents, not just a mush, so I use the zapp button rather than leave it to blend.
Put into brown dishes – yes, they have to be to be properly retro. If you are being posh and not dieting then there’s no doubt that a layer of clarified butter doesn’t do anything but good. Freezes great. But please, please don’t eat straight from the fridge …..

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