Oriental Soba Mooning

Ok so this is fish and noodles, oriental flavours. We used moonfish today and it was delicious.

Sauce: Onions finely chopped (thinking of doing without them next time), kaffir lime leaf (sliced), lemongrass stalk (finely chopped), white wine. Simmer and boil down. Add a spoon of ginger marmalade. Then simmer, wiz in a blender, add fish sauce, lemon juice, butter, finish to a good zingy consistency.

Soba: Boil soba, add broccoli florets at the last minute, drain, dress with soy sauce and sesame oil.

Moon fish: Steam with a bit of salt.

Serve. Really good.

Coconut and Chili Seafood

This was meant to be just with prawns, but no prawns were on special so I just brought home some marinara mix. Now, not so sure about the mussles in this but fish, squid, scallops and prawns all worked beautifully, so any combination of those as ingredients would be acceptable.

Ingredients:

• Fishy stuff (as above) 700g for 3 people was loads
• Marinade: juice of a lime, salt, olive oil
• Grated fresh coconut (about 75g)
• chili (as you like it)
• some mint leaves
• coconut cream (a little)

Marinate your fishy stuff (reduced to chunks if not naturally so) for ten minutes or so, then grill or fry dryly (i.e. don't overcrowd). Arrange on plate. Mix the grated coconut with the chilli and the remaining marinade, fry briefly, put on top of the fishy stuff. Serve with a bit of coconut cream drizzled over the top and some shredded mint leaves.

I did this one with corn fritters on the side, which turned out quite nicely. Was really thinking green papaya salad but they didn't have any.