Fish Pie

While browsing the Internet I stumbled upon very cool fish pie. The original can be found here.

For the dish we will need these igredients:

• 1 kg (2.20lbs) of potatoes
• 400 g (0.89 lbs) of fish (cod, trout or salmon is recommended, I took what turned out in the shop - Alaska pollack)
• 200 g (0.45 lbs) of frozen green peas
• 160 g (0.36 lbs) of cheese "Cheddar"
• 1 glass of milk
• butter
• sunflower oil

Here is what we will do with all these ingredients, step-by-step:

1. Grease the bottom and the sides of the baking form with sunflower oil. You can do this either with fingers or use special brush. Put filleted fish there.

2. Pour milk on fish fillet so it is about half covered, then salt and pepper.

3. Peel the potatoes and put them in the saucepan. Oven must be heated up to 180 degrees centigrade (356 F).
When potatoes begin to boil put the fish into the oven (make sure, that it has required temperature).

4. Put the frozen peas into a saucepan and cover them with water. Add a some salt and put them on the hob - low heat will do. 20 minutes there will be just fine.

5. While waiting for the peas we can grate the cheese.

6. When 20 minutes are up take the fish out of the oven and drain off the milk into the glass. Using fork tear the fillet into pieces. Rise temperature in the oven up to 220 grades centigrade (428 F).

7. Wait when peas start to boil. Then get them from the hob and drain water off.

8. By that time potatoes will be ready. You can drain water off and hold it on the hob for some time, hence remnants of the water completely evaporate. Add butter to potatoes, salt and pepper. Then add part of the milt and thoroughly mash it. In my case, all the milk was required to make them very smooth and creamy. In your case not all milk may be required - so do not hurry to pour all milk. The goal is to have smooth and creamy potato mash.

9. Add peas to potato mash and mix carefully.
Be careful don't mash up the peas.
10. Put potato mash with peas on top of the fish and spread it evenly using the fork.11. Sprinkle the shredded cheese.

12. Put the dish into the oven and leave it there for 20 minutes. Check later if pie is baking evenly. Turn the dish around if it is brown on one side. After 10 minutes you should see something like this:

Bon appetit!

Either macaroni po-flotski or spaghetti bolognese

I was thinking a lot how to name the post. That is because my spaghetti differs from macaroni po-flotski and at the same time doesn't follow the exact recipe of spaghetti bolognese :). Nevertheless here is what I've got.

As usual I was cooking spaghetti with sauce. I do not recommend buying dry sauces from paper bags in the store. All these sauces have a lot of food additives. It is better to take already made sauces (without preservatives) for cooking.

Well, we'll need:

• 250 grammes of minced meat (a mix of beef and pork)
• 300 grammes of pasta for spaghetti (Italian are desired)
• 75 grammes of cheese
• tomato sauce(with spices)
• Italian sauce with olives (Heinz)
• butter
• pepper, salt and basil

It's time for detailed description:

1. Put minced meat on the pan, break the lumps, add tomato sauce and Italian sauce Heinz, butter, spices. If you want to make the sauce more liquid, you can add more tomato and Italian sauces or butter. You can also add some water.
2. Lead it to boil then reduce fire and cover the lid. Meat should be completely fried and soaked with juice. The process should take near 10-15 minutes. It is necessary to stir the sauce slowly from time to time.

3. By that time we boil the water for the pasta and put spaghetti into the pot. Then we cook until spaghetti is ready.

4. Grate cheese.

5. Put boiled pasta on the plate. 6. Then, on top of pasta we put our sauce. 7. Sprinkle with cheese on top. 8. Basically the dish is ready to eat, but I prefer cheese to be melted. That's why I put the plate for a minute or so into the microwave. Bon appetit!