Pile of pan fried, spiced sprats

Pan-fried spiced sprats with a fennel salad

Gavin Wren Fish & Shellfish, Main Dishes, Recipes, Salads

I have distant memories of being a small child, in a pub garden in Surrey with my parents, when I first discovered the dish that is a plate of tiny little fried fish which you ate whole; whitebait. I became inwardly obsessed with them, always longing to find them on the menu when eating out, waiting for that crunchy little fish that I could souse with vinegar and devour whole. In later life this eating-seafood-whole …

mackerel on rye bread with poached eggs and mustard yoghurt sauce

Blog posts are like fish – Mackerel on Rye

Gavin Wren Fish & Shellfish, Main Dishes, Recipes

Benjamin Franklin once said “Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days”. As well as being very true, it’s also how I feel about posting recipes on this blog. Inspiration for a recipe may come to me at any time, and is often so fleeting that it must be written down immediately, or it may vanish forever. However, if it is retained, then follows the step of developing the idea into a workable, tasty …

Thai fried rice with tofu beans pak choi lime and chilli

Ironic Thai fried rice with Tofu & (or) Prawns

Gavin Wren Fish & Shellfish, Main Dishes, Recipes, Vegan, Vegetarian

Occasionally, I spend some time online reading other food blogs (although I try not to, as it’s an endless task). Quite often, as I work my way through the first few sentences or even paragraphs of a post, I find the introduction is some kind of whimsical, limp wrested observation which has little or no relevance to the subject in hand; food. It reminds me of listening to dreary, insipid sermons at church*, where awful …

Prawns with pineapple chilli cooked on a camp stove

Cooking in a field; Pineapple and chilli prawns

Gavin Wren Fish & Shellfish, Main Dishes, Recipes

Firstly, I’d like to offer my apologies for the lack of recent posts. My absence was due to a lovely, yet short, holiday in Sussex, where we stayed in an absolutely delightful shepherd’s hut at Hawthbush Farm, an organic working farm with added ‘glamping’. We stayed in a little hut made for two named ‘Aggie’, who was tucked away in her own peaceful and secluded field. She came fitted with a wood burning stove and …