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Poached smoked haddock & sauteed potatoes with a ham and cream sauce

This was inspired by Nigel Slater’s smoked haddock with potato and bacon recipe. This is what I did with the ingredients I had to hand:

Cut white potatoes into round half-cm thick chunks, boil and leave to cool. Once the steam has gone cover to avoid darkening by oxidation. When ready to eat, saute to brown both sides. These are best served immediately for maximum crunch (like everything involving frying!)
Skin smoked haddock and cut into into large chunks. Poach very gently in water until their internal temperature is 45C.
Make a ham and cream sauce: fry a litle minced garlic just to get rid of its harshness, then add cream, shredded ham and lots of chopped parsley.
Serve with lightly cooked veg.

Onion, capers and sundried tomato potato salad


I peeled 5 medium potatoes, cut them into 2cm chunks and boiled. I drained them and let them cool a little, then added:-

spring onion, finely chopped
tiny capers, drained (use the vinegar to ‘cook’ the chopped onion if preferred),
sundried tomatoes, rehydrated then chopped finely
fresh parsley
extra virgin olive oil
(garlic) salt
pepper

It’s good to mix it it gently together then tip it into another bowl to serve so that all the tiny bits end up on top. This is best eaten warm but is fine cold as well.

This is adapted from the roasted warm potato salad recipe in this book: