Fish Cooking Book

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A Fish Cooking Book is an essential addition to any home kitchen and fish is a flavoursome and nutritious ingredient. Fish is simple to prepare and often quick to cook and the addition of simple herbs or sauces can enhance the taste and presentation. Each fish cooking book below has been recommended by the Recipe Book Reviews team not just for their delicious recipes but also for their chapters which range from how fish is caught, how it arrives to the shops, how to choose fish, how to prepare and fillet fish at home and how to cook fish.

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Seafood Cook Book

The Fishy Fishy Cookbook is a delightful seafood cook book which is not just a fish cooking book but a comprehensive guide to fish which starts with how fishermen and trawlers catch fish. It also describes how they are transported to fish markets and stores and shows how fish should be prepared prior to cooking. It is so much more than a fish recipe book and captures the imagination of the reader from the opening photos of the writers sharing their own caught fish with their families in the kitchen and outdoors at the picnic table. Fishy Fishy recipe book is based on the brassiere at Brighton which is owned by TV presenter Dermot O'Leary and his friends James Ginzler and Paul Shovlin, where together with chef Loz Talent, they serve tasty fish dishes using seasonally fresh and locally caught fish along with seasonal food.

They insist that their suppliers ethically fish so their sources use gill nets or pots and lines. Like their book their restaurant is informal to facilitate a relaxed meal. So successful has their ideas been that they have opened another fish restaurant in Poole. Their ethos has easily transferred to the fishy fishy book and when looking at their stunning photographs of their fish recipes they may look difficult to cook but their fish recipes are described in an easy to follow manner. We would recommend the Fishy Fishy cookbook to anyone with an interest in cooking.

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The recipes in the Fishy Fishy Cookbook have been inspired by the Fishy Fishy restaurant menu and devised by their chef Loz Talent. The staff prepares their dishes with fresh local and seasonal fish, so in their restaurant you will not find flat fish in midwinter nor British lobster out-with the March to September months. The writers of Fishy Fishy encourage readers to continue this ethos at home. Chapters deal with the various fish found in UK waters, when they are in season, not spawning and readily available around our shores. So in the lobster section we learn how lobsters live, the best time to catch and eat lobster and how to humanely kill and cook a lobster at home. Other background chapters deal with the controls and quotas in the fishing industry, fishing methods such as towed, encircling or static gear and the arguments for and against catching cod which includes photographs of their friend who is a cod fisherman using gill nets, the sustainable fishing method for cod, ray and Dover sole. A charming chapter describes the authors' regular Mackerel fishing trips with Dermot O'Leary.

After this interesting section the writers guide the reader through how to buy fish such as the best day to buy fresh fish and how to look for signs that a fish is freshly caught and not from frozen stock.

The fish cooking section of Fishy Fishy starts with a guide to filleting fish which includes round fish, flat fish, shellfish, octopus, squid, crab and oysters.

The fish recipes are broken down into sections of starters, barbecue and al fresco eating, everyday fish and shellfish, special occasions and sauces, side dishes and desserts. Starters include brill fillets with citrus salsa, smoked salmon with horseradish sour cream and rye bread, chargrilled squid with tomato and chilli jam, smoked salmon pate and fishy fishy fish stew.

Unexpectedly but most welcome in a fish recipe book are some vegetarian recipes. So starter vegetarian recipes include goat's cheese and caramelized red onion tartlets.

Mains in this fish recipe book include classic fishburgers, fishy fishy fish pie, skate wing with brown butter, monkfish scampi with sweet cider sauce, lemon sole stuffed with ratatouille and quick crab, chilli and basil linguini. Read sample recipes from this seafood cook book on the Recipe Book Reviews Quick Crab Recipe, Sea Bass Recipes and Spicy Prawns pages.

Fishy fishy recommends making your own sauces to accompany your fish so there are quick and easy recipes for tartare sauce, Marie Rose sauce, lemon crème fraiche and horseradish sour cream as well as mayonnaise and garlic mayonnaise. Homemade butter recipes include citrus butter and peppercorn butter. Dressings that can easily be made at home with these fish recipes include tomato, lime and coriander dressing and a bloody Mary dressing.

There is a range of salsa sauces that can add some spice to any fish dish and these include citrus salsa and salsa verde whilst recipes for dips include homemade taramasalata and humous.

This fish cookbook includes serving suggestions, alternative ingredients and notes about the fish at the end of recipes. For example the John Dory en papillotte recipe has a section about the legend of the spots on the John Dory fish being the thumbs and finger print of St Peter as he picked it from the sea.

Breakfast recipes include a surprise addition of eggs royale, eggs Florentine and eggs benedict before getting back to breakfast fish recipes of kippers and kedgeree,

Fish is a versatile ingredient and cooks well outdoors. Barbecue dishes include albacore tuna salad, mixed seafood kebabs and BBQ oysters. Other summer dishes include how to cook fish dishes like Cornish sardines with pesto and warm mackerel salad with rhubarb chutney. As with the other fish cooking recipes the sauces perfectly accompany the fish dishes rather than overpower or hide their taste.

Cooking with fish can be such a treat and special occasion recipes include mixed fish platter with roasted new potatoes, cod with champ and kale and grilled lobster, grilled North Atlantic langoustines and sole meuniere. Side dishes include chickpea, ginger and beansprout salad.

Fish cooking recipes do not normally include desserts so the Fish Fishy Cookbook have included sweet recipes from their restaurants which include chocolate and pecan brownies with crème anglaise, tarte au citron with fruit coulis and pear tarte tatin with vanilla mascarpone.

The Fishy Fishy Cookbook was published by New Holland Publishers UK in 2012. The photographer was Tony Briscoe who captured the hard work of the fishermen, the relaxing scenes of family get-togethers over freshly caught fish as well as many of the fish recipes.

The Fishy Fishy Cookbook is a one stop fish cooking book for those who want to learn how to cook fish or develop their passion for cooking fish. This seafood cook book is simple to follow, full of flavoursome fish recipes and inspires the home chef. Certainly the best fish cooking book around today.

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The Fishy Fishy Cookbook is also available as a free app from iTunes for iPhone and iPad users. The Fishy Fishy Cookbook app includes an introduction by Dermot O'Leary, 10 free recipes, advice on sourcing sustainable fish and demonstration how to video guides which includes how to gut a fish properly. Other videos in the Fishy Fishy Cookbook app include chef Loz Talent talking viewers through fish recipes from their fish cooking book.

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