There are few dishes from the grill that are as impressive -- or as delicious -- as a whole grilled fish. The skin crisps and blackens slightly, picking up a slight overtone of smoke and funk. The ...
First, make the parsley butter. Cream the butter, stir in the parsley and a few drops of lemon juice at a time. Roll into butter pats or form into a roll and wrap in greaseproof paper or tin foil, ...
Skin and coarsely chop the tomatoes. Peel, halve and thinly slice the onion. Peel and crush the garlic and crumble the dried chilli. Heat a couple of tablespoons of oil in a medium pan over a ...

Big Mack recipe

I wrote this recipe about 15 years ago. At the time, I chopped up the mackerel and formed it into a patty, but here I’m doing ...
4 fresh mackerel fillets about 175g (6oz) each 4 handfuls watercress sprigs extra dill To make the salad, cut the skin and pith off the oranges and divide into segments discarding the membranes. Set ...
Preheat the grill to high. Arrange the tomato slices in a single layer on a lightly-oiled baking tray. Season lightly with some salt and pepper and sprinkle with the thyme leaves. Slash the skin of ...
Even out of the water they have a commanding presence. Their skin is shiny silver and midnight blue, and their eyes are hard as garnets. These are wild fish fresh from the ocean, and it shows; even ...
A traditional escabèche is made by soaking fried fish overnight in a pungent blend of vinegar and garlic. In his riff on this recipe, chef Ferran Adrià skips the marinating, which not only speeds ...
One of the greatest seafood mysteries is why an assertively flavored fish like salmon is vastly more popular than a milder one like Spanish mackerel. Not to say that one fish is better than the other.