Seabass and Spiders

Tonight I ate a particularly delicious meal......

Pan fried seabass with warm tomato,pepper and chilli salsa with mini roasties with the skin left on. 

Seabass is delicious, it could happily just be accompanied by a squeeze of lemon and some olive oil. If you can get some from the fishmonger, that's the best thing to do but don't worry if you have to go to Tescos. The fishmonger in Manchester's Arndale market will give you 3 for a fiver. However if you're in the market you probably won't end up eating the sebass that night as all the other delicious food stalls will tempt you away.

Tonight I used Seabass from my Tesco Big Shop which was in fact called Basa  - The basa fish, Pangasius bocourti, is a type of catfish in the family Pangasiidae. Basa are native to the Mekong River Delta in Vietnam and Chao Phraya basin in Thailand. So remember that if you are ever on Uni Chal. It wasn't quite as nice but the salsa was so delicious it didn't matter.


This recipe will feed two. You will need...


2 seabass fillets
A couple of potatoes (doesn't matter which kind, I used some old ones that have been in our dishwasher for a few weeks and they tasted fine)


For the salsa
Tomatoes (I used half a pack of plum tomatoes which are very sweet so make a good salsa, but if you don't have them to hand chuck any old ones in)
Garlic (4 cloves)
2 small onions
A fresh chilli
Sugar
Lime
Assorted herbs (I used basil, oregano, salt and pepper)
Half a pepper (colour up to you, red are the queens of the pepper land though)


To make........


Firstly roughly chop up your potatoes, put in a baking tray sprinkle on a bit of salt, pepper and olive oil and put in the oven on 180 for about half an hour. Whilst they are cooking......


For the salsa: 
Chop up the onion, garlic and chilli into fairly small pieces but big enough for fairies to hold in their fingers and then fry in a teaspoon of olive oil till browning.
Add the chopped up tomatoes - squeeze all their innards out as you are putting them in - satisfying and squelchy.
Add the chopped up pepper and give a good stir to the mixture.
Then add a squeeze of lime, a teaspoon of sugar and your 'erbs and spices. Leave to simmer for 20 mins or so.


For the sebass:
Use a pan similar to this:

If you don't have one like that, any frying pan will do. Using one like that just makes you feel a bit more like a proper chef.

Heat up some olive oil and when hot and spitting add the sebass. Fry for a minute on each side then serve.

You might end up with something like this....

If it looks completely different to this you might have made another meal by mistake. 

A story from the weekend....

On Saturday night I rolled over in bed and killed a spider. This is what he looked like....

That is his spider blood next to him. That is in fact what woke me up. Spider blood smells BADMAN.

If anybody reading this has made anything delicious please tell me about it because I love to try other people's food ideas. 

The End.