Smoked trout pancakes

We had a huge lunch out - so didn't really feel like much tea - but about 8pm we got a little peckish, so I rustled up this - and it was delicious.

Pancakes

SR flour - gluten free for us
fennel seeds
1 egg
Soya milk
salt and pepper
peanut oil
smoked trout
Lemon
spinach
lettuce
basil
tomato
red onion
olive oil

1.  Sprinkle fennel seeds and salt and pepper into the flour.
2.  Add the egg, and then soya milk, whisking to form a batter.
3.  Fry pancakes in batches in peanut oil.
4.  Top pancakes with trout and spritz with lemon juice.
5.  Mae simple salad by tossing together shredded lettuce with baby spinach and basil leaves.  add tomato and onion, drizzle gently with olive oil.

Scoff

The fennel seeds make a difference!

Smoked trout salad

The summer seems to have deserted the north - but the lettuces in the trug have still clung on, so despite thunder and lightening, it was time to have sunshine in the kitchen.

New potatoes
Hot smoked trout

Little gem lettuce
Parsley
Sorrel
Olive oil
Lemon juice

Tomatoes
Spring onions
Radishes
Salt
Olive oil
Basil

Carrots
Sesame seeds

So 4 salads ...

1.  start by washing and boiling new potatoes.
2.  Wash and spin lettuce leaves, add fresh parsley leaves and sorrel leaves (not chopped up as a garnish, but as salad leaves).
3.  Drizzle on olive oil and squeeze on the juice of 1/2 a lemon.  Toss gently as you serve.
4.  Chop the tomatoes, radishes and spring onions, drizzle with a little olive oil, tear in a few basil leaves and grind on rock salt.
5.  Peel and grate carrots, mix in a spoonful of sesame seeds,
6.  Flake smoked trout into the potatoes,
7.  Scoff

(Turn the heating up and pretend that summer is here)