local fisheries, yum!

Happy July everyone! Wishing you a Happy 4th in advance of the weekend, light some sparklers for us!

Mike had a successful presentation yesterday that he was working super hard on, so that was fantastic. We celebrated with a pint at the Malt Cross when he got home. Then it was dinner time! It is true that daily shopping trips and cooking adventures are my favorite thing about all this free time!

Instead of the grocery store, I visited local market stores yesterday. I went to the local flower and produce shop to buy the vegetables. The vegetable man and I did NOT understand each other. I wanted a zucchini but it wasn't called a zucchini. It was a bit of a pantomime to explain it all, I did not see that one coming. In the end I got my courgette (was I supposed to know that it is a zucchini??) and an onion and a bag of fingerling (boiling) potatoes.

Next up, the local fisheries. What amazed me was that there was absolutely no smell at all in the store, and it was packed. So that says super fresh, good turn-over. I bought local haddock.

Here's my recipe that I made up, I'll call it:

Local Garden Haddock

Make GF bread crumbs. Here's how I did it:

Chop three slices of GF bread (Morrison's brand is great) into centimeter cubes.

Broil three smashed garlic cloves in olive oil with salt and pepper until just toasted.

Mix in bread cubes and more oil to lightly coat.

Broil for a few more moments until it starts to brown.

Cool.

Layer baking dish with thin slices of onion, courgette, yellow pepper, chopped cherry tomato, drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake veggies for about ten minutes to start them roasting. (Thanks to Andrea for converting Fahrenheit to Celsius for me!!)

Layer haddock over veggies, coat with GF crumbs and shaved Parmesan cheese.

Bake 15-20 more minutes.

Serve with boiled potatoes.

It was seriously good. Seriously.

Today I am researching GF Spain. I printed out my GF restaurant card, thanks to celiactravel.com. I am finding it hard because all the sites are in Spanish. It sounds like the places we are going have a great deal of international tourists, so we'll probably get by no problem. Here are my translations, though.

Gluten = Gluten

Wheat = Trigo

Barley = Cebada

Rye = Centeno

Oats = Avena

If you are a Spanish speaker and this seems wrong, please email me a.s.a.p.!!! I got these translations from babel fish, a super cool translation site!

I'll have news of our trip next week, not sure if there will be time for an update before I leave tomorrow. Talk to you soon!