Hubby has been trying to increase the amount of oily fish he eats in a week and, like me, he's begun to look at meals other than dinnertime. After all, there's only so many dinners you can have in a week if they consist of smoked mackerel, nice as it is!
However, unlike me - who has opted for breakfast, he's opted for the lunchtime option. He's also opted for the smoked mackerel route, whereas I'm alternating between tinned mackerel in tomato sauce and tinned mackerel in brine.
So, he invested in some three fillets of smoked mackerel and enjoyed two lunches from them.
This is one of those lunches - when he created a smoked mackerel pate to eat with some of my soda bread and a salad. Looks good - and by all accounts, it tasted pretty fantastic.
The pate was a simple matter of flaking the fillets into a bowl, adding a teaspoon of horseradish sauce, enough mayonnaise to lubricate the mix, a squirt of lemon juice and plenty of freshly ground black pepper.
Pile onto a piece of freshly toasted soda bread - and eat with an accompanying salad. Oh, and two ostentatious olives. *chuckle*
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Now, I know I've already blogged about having Mackerel & Horseradish on toast for breakfast once. However, this incarnation of same could definitely bear passing on as it was pretty darned good, plus the fact that it's still Farmhouse Breakfast Week - and it definitely qualifies.
I do agree, that having an oily fish like Mackerel for breakfast isn't everyone's idea of worth getting out of bed for. For those of you who enjoy a good Kipper - or are buckling down to getting some more Omega 3 into your system - why not give it a go.
Mind you - it just occurs to me - that this could be used as a light lunch or a light supper! Although I wouldn't be eating Mackerel just before bed, not if I was expecting company therein. If you know what I mean. ~taps side of nose, knowingly~ Say no more.
So, getting back to business (phnarrr! .. oh, stop it!), having made that lovely loaf of soda bread, needless to say, it was being used for every occasion that toast would have been. Hence, when I was contemplating breakfast and pondered on the fact that I was a bit behind in my quota of Mackerel, the idea of putting some on gorgeous soda bread was too good an opportunity to miss.
So, here's what you do. It's not difficult and anyone should be able to achieve the same results, given the same ingredients :
1. Take a slice of soda bread. Try not to slather it with butter and strawberry jam and then eat it. If you've managed to avoid that pitfall (or if you're still hungry), place your slice in a toaster until toasted to how you like it, or toast it under the grill.
2. Once toasted, butter lightly. No, LIGHTLY, I said! *sigh*
3. Quickly grab a jar of Creamed Horseradish Sauce, and smooth on a layer. How much you use, is up to how much you like the stuff.
4. Next, take a tin of Mackerel fillets in tomato sauce (or plain ones, if you don't like the tomato sauce version). Open it carefully - you don't want to lose a fingertip, not right at the moment. Using a fork, break up the fillets gently whilst in the tin and fork out on top of the horseradish layer, until you've covered the slice evenly.
5. If you've any tomato sauce left in the can, you can feed that to the dog. They'll thank you for it.
6. Take some freshly ground black pepper and sprinkle over.
7. If you want to impress your friends, add a couple of Basil leaves.
8. Sit somewhere comfy and eat. It's yours. All yours. Yum.
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