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Sometime ago I wrote about a fantastic offer Waitrose do at their fish counter. They call it Garnish & Go and you can read that blog post here. However, you don’t have to go to Waitrose to buy your fish. For years now, inspired by Jamie Oliver, I have baked fish in a tin foil parcel. Here are three recipes using this idea:

Lemon Salmon

Recently I wrote a blog called ‘The Ultimate Fast Food‘ where I shared my recipe for fish cooked in a foil parcel. Sometimes at the weekend my husband and I like to walk to our local Waitrose and buy something nice for dinner. We don’t often shop at Waitrose as we find a whole weeks shopping there blows our budget, but we do go there to buy specific items that are really good value.

One item we often buy at Waitrose is their fish. They have a good fish counter at our local store and we find that, I’m sorry to say, the quality and price is sometimes better than our local fishmonger. In particular we like their oven cook parcels. At no extra cost they will seal your fish in their own oven cook parcel and add flavoured butter and lemon. You simple have to pop the fish into the oven and you have a delicious meal. With the flavoured butter and lemon added for free I think I would be hard pushed to find a cheaper fish dish of the same quality and speed.

The Waitrose website gives more details of this offer which they call ‘Garnish & Go‘. If you have a Waitrose near you this is really worth a try. A delicious, speedy way to enjoy your Omega 3. It is perfect for our busy Saturdays so we can still serve up a healthy, yummy meal while spending less time in the kitchen and more time with Baby G.

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It seems summer has finally arrived. We’ve been having really hot, beautiful sunny weather. Yesterday it was really hot and as an antidote to a family funeral we decided upon a barbecue. My husband loves to barbecue but we were both tired and wanted something quick to eat. We had barbecued Salmon. Why don’t you try this recipe on your barbecue this weekend? It is so quick and easy and this recipe serves two.

Ingredients:

1 tbsp Sweet Chilli Sauce
Juice half a lime
2 Salmon Fillets

Method:

1. Marinate salmon fillets in chilli sauce and lime for as long as possible (10-15 mins can be sufficient).
2. Prepare barbecue to a medium heat.
3. Pop salmon on barbecue skin side down.
4. Cook fish slowly until it has become a light pink colour – time for this will vary with the heat of the barbecue (it took around 15-20 mins on our barbeque as the heat was low).

Serve with microwave rice, egg or rice noodles drizzled with soy sauce and a green salad.

If you don’t have a barbecue you can pick up a disposable one really cheap or like us you could spend around £15 and buy a mini gas barbecue at a camping shop. We bought our mini portable barbecue about four years ago now and it is still going strong. It is small enough to take out for the day and it is great at home if we need an extra place to cook barbecue food at a different temperature or to cook fish separately for vegetarians. Please share some quick, tasty barbecue recipes!

I think fish is the ultimate fast food, but better than that, cooked the right way fish is really healthy, full of omega 3 and zinc. For a fantastic fast meal on my weekly meal plan:

1. Pre-heat oven to 180°C.
2. Take a portion of fish and fold it inside tin foil, making a parcel.
3. Before sealing the tin foil parcel sprinkle in some herbs, black pepper, maybe a slice of lemon and a bay leaf.
4. Seal tin foil and place on a baking tray in oven for 15-20mins.

Serving Suggestion:

Rice and baked cherry tomatoes (tomatoes popped in ovenproof dish and put in oven at same time as fish).