Spicy Moroccan Stewed Fish with Couscous

My husband and I went to Tunisia for our Anniversary and when we were in the city of Sousse we stop at a restaurant and as we knew that the Spicy Moroccan Stewed Fish was in the Jamie Oliver book we decided to taste it as per it was supposed to taste. When we arrive back home we decided to give it a whirl. The ingredients that you require are:

150gm Couscous

Olive Oil

2 Lemons

Sea Salt

Freshly Ground Black Pepper

2 Cloves of Garlic

1 Fresh Red Chilli

Bunch of fresh Basil

1 Teaspoon whole Cumin Seeds

1/2 teaspoon ground Cinnamon

2x150gm white fish fillets skin off and remove bones.

200g king prawns raw and peeled.

1 tin tomatoes

2 handfuls of fresh or frozen peas.

Raspberry Cheesecake

I had the girls from work down for a come dine with me evening, I got rid of my husband and children for the night I started with some nibbles for my guests and cooked a curried chicken (which was a variation on a jamie oliver and a sainsburys recipe) served with wine and a raspberry cheesecake. The evening started at 1830 and finished at midnight.

The curried chicken I started 2 hours prior to my guests arrival and I used the slow cooker to cook in checking its dexterity every 15 minutes, preparing a medium sauce from scratch and slowing browning the chicken prior to adding to the sauce gave the chicken an slightly sharper flavour.

One hour prior to the finishing the main meal, I started to prepare the cheesecake, this took about 45 minutes to do and was really tasty the ingredients i used were:

1,5 kg (53 ounces) cream cheese or quark, room temperature (I used Valio 0,3 % fat quark)

12 cup (100 grams) granulated white sugar

2 tablespoons semolina

4 large eggs, room temperature

1/3 cup (80 ml) heavy whipping cream

100 ml lemon juice (1 lemon)

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Topping:

4 tablespons raspberry sause
1 cup (240 ml) sour cream (I used 15% fat)

2 tablespoons (30 grams) granulated white sugar

1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

raspberries for decoration (I used 14)

The food was finished off with quite a considerable amount of alcohol, an enjoyable night was had by all and i cant wait until being guest at my friends houses.

Kedgeree

Kedgeree (Page 288) is a mix of rice, eggs and poached fish. a nice tasting dish, but would consider it would be better served as lunch as opposed to a dinner, the reason being that when you have a main dinner course it has to be filling and memorable, this dish lacks this but would satisfy as a lunch.

Rating out of 10 would be a 7.

Tomatoe Soup

Today I tried the Tomatoe Soup from the recipe on page 133. It reminded me a bit of when you try something you taste for the very first time, and it far exceeds what you was expecting.

The taste of this soup is slightly sharper than what you would buy in a tin, good thing about making your own soup is that you can make a lot and put it in the fridge and microwave small servings, if you were to buy the same amount of soup in tins it would probably cost you around £8-£9.

Rating out of 10 would be a 8

Heatlthy Full Monty

This Healthy option to a fry up is done by grilling rather than frying, and to be honest tasted better than a fry up, the taste in the food comes out better and you are not left with that sickly feeling of grease. Im not saying this is the quickest way to get a fry up (grill up) it does take some time to do, so if you have been on the pop the night before and your body craves salt then a fry up is a lot quicker.

But i would have to say if you want to enjoy the food this is the best way to do it.

Rating out of 10 would be a 9