Fried Salmon with oven Potato, Thyme sauce and Pizza salad

This one i made couple days ago. Here in Sweden, you always get this delicious Pizza salad in all the pizzerias when you order pizza. It's really simple and delicious, so i decided to make it as a side dish with this fried Salmon. They worked well together! The buttery thyme sauce goes well with fish too. Here is a recipe for this dish:

You need:

• Oven potatoes (2 big ones for two portions)
• Fresh salmon files
• One lime
• Fresh Thyme
• Fresh Cabbage
• Butter
• Cream
• Flours
• Salt & Pepper
• White vinegar
• Olive Oil
• Sugar or Honey
• Lemon pepper ( I used Santamaria Lime&Peppermix)

First wash the potatoes and roll them in the folio and let it cook in the owen in 225 degrees for about 1 hour. Don't start cooking the fish untill the potatoes are about to be ready, because the fish and the sauce takes only a short time to cook.

Then make the cabbage salad. Boil some water on a tea boiler. Grade or cut the cabbage in thin slices and wash the slices well. Put a big bowl under the strainer and the cabbage on top the bowl. Pour the boiled water on top of the cabbage, so that it strains into the bowl under it. Pour the hot water again on top of the cabbage so that it goes a bit soft. Then run cold water thru the cabbage so that it cools down. Pour it to a bowl, add some salt and pepper, white vinegar, olive oil and sugar or honey (i used honey). Mix it well and taste that it has enough vinegar and spices. Put the cabbage salad covered in the fridge and let it spice up there for an hour or so too. This salad is even better, if it has been standing in the fridge for a day.

Prepare the fish. I bought ready cutted files, without the skin. Just added some salt and peppe, fresh thyme and lime pepper on top of the fish. Squeeze some fresh lime juice on top just before you start cooking it. Add a good piece of butter in the pan and fry the fish from both sides that it comes nice and golden brown. Use a spoon to scoop the butter on top of the fish while you are frying it. Put the fish on a plate and cover it with a lit.

Make the sauce. Add some butter (about 60 grams)  in a sauce pot, let it melt, then add some freshly cutted  thyme in it. Add about 1 tablespoon of flours, keep the heat low. Mix the flours well on the butter and when it's all mixed add just a half or one dl water and then about 1 dl cream. Mix and let it come to little boil. Add more cream if it's too thick. Add some salt and pepper and taste that it has enough flavour.

Serve the fish with oven potato, pizza salad and the buttery thyme sauce and enjoy. Simple and so good!

Delicious Fish

I have always loved Fish alot. When i was little, we used to fish with my grandpa at our summer gottage. It was him, who teached me how to fish and prepare delicious and simple food from fish. These two portions are examples of how to make fried fish tasty and good in simple ways.

Basic what you need for spice up the fish (you can use different variations):

• Salt & Pepper (Sea salt is really good with fish)
• Lemon pepper
• Garlic & pepper mix
• Dried dill
• Lemon juice

In the top picture is fish file from a fish called Pangasius. It's a genus of shark catfishes, native to Asia. You can get this frozen or fresh in your local stores mostly and it is quite cheap. The bottom fish is very common used fish in Scandinavia called Baltic Herring (Silakka in Finnish) . You can get i fresh anywhere here in Scandinavia, files or whole. 

The first step of making the fish is spice it up. Sprinkle some salt & pepper on top, use some other spices if you like, try out different things. Squeeze some fresh lemon juice on top. Lemon also starts to cook the fish with its acids so you need to do it just before you actually start frying the fish. 

You need some eggs & breadcrumps to get the crispy cover for the fish. Mixx the eggs in a bowl and either dip the fish in or smear the egg on both sides of the fish. Then pour some breadcrumps on a plate and flip the fish on both sides that it gets enough breadcrumps on it. Then fry the fish in Olive oil or butter on a hot pan until the surface looks golden brown. 

Here in these portions, i have served the fish with mashed potatoes, some peas, fried onion. On the top picture i have made a creamy wild mushroom sauce from mushrooms that i picked from a forest. On bottom picture i have made a simple sour cream sauce just by adding some lemon, honey, pepper, dill and herb salt in the mix. If you want the recipe for the mushroom sauce, just feel free to ask me. The mushrooms are called in latin: Hydnum Repandum. Just click the name to read more about the mushrooms.

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I love Sushi

Sushi is one of my favorite foods. You can make so many different variations of maki-rolls / nigiris. Simply love them! I love the pickled ginger too, so that pink one is my favorite. Nowdays you can find almost all the ingredients from local food stores, but ofcourse you can find them in Asian stores too.  Here's one little recipe how i like to make Tofu-maki rolls.

You need:

• One packet of hard Tofu
• Avocado
• 1 Carrot
• Cucumber
• Iceberg lettuce
• Nori (Seaweed)
• Wasabi
• Rice vinegar
• Sesame seeds
• Soy sauce
• Heinz tartar sauce (or cream cheese, mayonnaise)
• Sushi rice or plain porridge rice
• Sesame oil, Chili oil, salt, pepper & Soya sauce for the marinade for tofu
• Cooking oil for frying the tofu. 
• Rolling mat

First cut long thick slices from the tofu and marinade them. Put the rice in a rice cooker or in a pot. I myself use rice cooker, because it's easier to cook rice in it and you don't have to watch after it. Nowdays you can find rice cookers really cheap in basic home elektronic stores. Start preparing the vegetables next. Cut long thick slices and put them a side. Prepare some big wide slices from the lettuce. Fry the tofu slices in oil on a hot pan until all the sides are nice and golden brown. Put the tofu on cooling down. Meanwhile the rice sould be ready. Pour the rice on a flat bowl/dish and let it coold down. When the rice has cooled down, pour some rice vinegar all over ther rice, but be carefull that you don't pour too much! The key of making really good sushi is to make perfect rice. It takes a long time to learn it, but practise makes perfect! Mix the rice gently. Prepare the nori on top of the rice mat. Be sure that you have the right side on top. So put the shiny side down. First add some tartar sauce with using knife (you can also use mayonnaise or cream cheese, but i like tartar in my maki)Then add the lettuce. Then add rice, make a nice little ball in your hands and put it on top and start pushing it flat on the matt. Make sure you leave about 2-3 cm free space on top of the nori. Add  a little stripe of wasabi by using your finger in the middle of the rice and sprinkle some sesame seeds on top. Then add some tofu, carrot, cucumber & avocado evenly on top. Start rolling the maki with the mat. Squeeze it tight in every roll and when you come near to end, stripe some water on the end of the nori seaweed with your finger and roll the maki to the end. Cut about 2-3 cm thick pieces with using a sharp knife. Serve with soy sauce, wasabi and pickled ginger. Enjoy!