Isabel, Tobias and Finlay will be cooking and serving
Salt Cod Baccala - a courgette flower filled with poached
salt cod, garlic and lemon butter sauce with a Koppertcress-inspired salad; roast supreme of chicken with piri piri glaze, bolinhas de chourico com batata, grelos e chourico and Madeira jus and for dessert Pao de lo, Casa Luker chocolate filled with Baba de Camelo - burnt orange and olive oil cake with caramel chocolate mousse and vanilla ice cream.
North Shieldscrab on toast with lemon and parsley ([pounds sterling]7) and
salt cod fritters with sriracha mayo ([pounds sterling]6) both stood out, as did the pig head croquettes with apple and English mustard ([pounds sterling]6.50).
Hubby and I shared three plates of divine
salt cod and calamari paella, pheasant wrapped in Serrano ham and lamb chops on a bed of courgette puree washed down with a lovely Tempranillo.
Strain the oil onto the
salt cod, lifting the fillets so the oil goes underneath them.
I chose the ensalada Malagena - a salad of potato,
salt cod, onion, orange pieces, olive oil and salt.
A
salt cod Scotch egg starter (PS7.50) borrows cleverly from Spanish croquetas, with a crisp crumb and fluffy bacalao and potato filling clinging around jammy-yolked eggs.
INGREDIENTS: (2) pieces bacalao (
salt cod) (2) bay leaves (2) teaspoons fennel pollen (1) pinch cayenne METHOD:
Now the 44-year-old, from Shetland, is at the helm of a thriving
salt cod business, while also holding down a day job with Johnson Marine.
I've never been to Portugal, but Seal's prose and recipes took me there, and I was thrilled to read that in addition to the chorizo pt and the
salt cod croquettes, the pork with clams and the chicken pies, she found a Portuguese love for broad beans, pumpkin, chickpeas -- and this traditional soup.
Among the showcased recipes are Hot Bread with Olive Oil and Garlic; Fried Green Peppers; Monkfish Kebabs; Pork Medallions with Lemon and Marjoram; Spiced Meat Pasties; and
Salt Cod Fritters..
Dishes range from Pickled Northern Pike and Puerto Rican
Salt Cod Salad to Vichyssoise and Beer Cheese Soup.
The book begins with
salt cod on a doomed ship in 1545 and ends with the awkward turkey curry buffet from Bridget Jones's Diary.