mixed grill of seafood

Ingredients

• 1 live lobster, about 600g/1lb 5oz
• 1 medium squid (calamari),
• cleaned and prepared
• 1 John Dory (or tilapia), about 350g / 12oz, scaled, gutted, fins and tail trimmed and deheaded
• A couple of slices of monkfish, cut across the tail through the bone, leaving the bone in
• A few raw prawns with the shell on
• Olive oil
  Sea salt and freshly-ground black pepper
  1–2 tbsp herb mixture for grilling
  A handful of flat-leaf parsley,
  finely chopped to garnish
  Lemon wedges and your choice of dressing (see introduction) to serve

Method
Place the lobster on a chopping board. Insert a large, sharp, heavy knife into the cross on the back of the head and cut down towards the tail, cutting it in half. Remove the stomach and the black intestinal tract (if there is one) that may run through the middle of the tail and discard.
Slice the squid from top to bottom, then open it out and make diagonal cuts across it, first one way and then the other, making sure the depth of the cut is halfway through the thickness.
Preheat the barbecue, or the grill (broiler), to hot. (If barbecuing, ensure the flames have died down and the
coals are glowing and covered with white ash before cooking.) Brush all the prepared fish and shellfish with
olive oil, season and sprinkle with the grill mixture.
Gently grill the squid, cut side down over the hot coals, or cut side up under the grill (the squid will curl up on
itself) until golden and evenly charred on the knobbly bits – about five minutes. Gently grill the lobster, flesh side down over the hot coals, or flesh side up under the grill, for five minutes, then turn it over and cook for a further 4–5 minutes – it should be nicely scorched and grilled. Meanwhile, put the monkfish and John Dory on or under the grill and cook until nicely charred – about four minutes on each side. Grill the prawns for 4–5 minutes until pink. Place all the fish on a big platter, sprinkle with parsley and sea salt and serve with a few lemon wedges and your choice of dressing. One of my favourite meals of all time!

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Seared radishes with radish leaf miso pesto

 by Shu Han LEE

Following the brilliance of Fergus Henderson and his St John’s Restaurant, nose-to-tail eating has
gotten chefs to reconsider and even be excited about ears and trotters and cuts that have previously been discarded. It just makes a lot more sense for the environment and your own pocket, to fully use and appreciate all that has been sacrificed to feed your stomach. I think we need to apply this to vegetables
too, a sort-of “shoot-to-root” or “topto- toe” eating. It pains me to see people pluck the tops off beetroots, or the outer leaves off cauliflower, when the whole plant is perfectly good to eat. I’ve used the radish here as an example, its blushing pink roots are much-lovedin spring, but its leaves are actually just as delicious, with a nice mustardy bite not unlike rocket or watercress. It’s nonsense that people are willing to pay for those little leaves in their salads when you can get equally tasty ones free. I’ve moved away from the usual raw salads here though. Many don’t realise this, but radishes are great cooked! I don’t mean mushy, tasteless, over-boiled radishes; pan-seared ones still retain a slight refreshing crunch. At the same time, their sharpness mellows, and their light sweetness comes through, a great contrast to the salty peppery pesto. I’ve given a slight Asian twist to this vegan-friendly pesto, using miso instead of Parmesan for a savoury depth.

Seared radishes with radish leaf miso pesto

Ingredients

• 1 large bunch of whole radishes
• 1 small handful of toasted pine nuts or almonds
• 2 cloves garlic
• 2 tbsp naturally fermented white miso
• Generous pinch of unrefined sea salt, freshly ground black pepper
• Extra virgin olive oil
• Squeeze of lemon

Method

1. Prepare the radishes, separate tops from bottoms. Chop the bottoms into equal-sized pieces, halved or quartered if large. Wash the tops to remove any dirt from the leaves and roughly chop.
2. For the seared radishes, heat some oil over medium-high heat, and when just sizzling, add the radishes cut-side down. Season, and sear until golden brown, about 5 minutes. Flip and repeat on the other sides.
3.  For the pesto, combine all the ingredients except lemon in a mortar and pestle, or a food processor, adding the evoo as you go, enough to make a smooth paste. Finish with a squeeze of lemon. This will keep in the fridge for a couple of days if submerged under oil.

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Sweet Eve Strawberry Hawaii Slush

This is a delicious, healthy drink that you can make with children for afternoon tea in the summer or as a pudding after their meal. If you make the recipe using freshly squeezed orange juice it will taste so much better than carton juice. Serve the slush in a tall glass with an umbrella and straw for an instant party feeling.

Serves 4 / Preparation time: 15 minutes / Freezing time: 2 hours

Ingredients

• 250g Sweet Eve strawberries
• 2 ripe bananas
• 2 ripe mangos
• 2 ripe peaches
• ¼ watermelon
• 250ml of fresh orange juice
• 2 tbsp of honey
• 2 tbsp lemon juice

Method

Firstly prepare the fruit. Hull the strawberries and slice them in half. Peel the bananas and chop into chunks. Peel the mango and cut the flesh into cubes. Slice the peaches into quarters. De-seed the watermelon and chop into chunks. Place all the fruit on a plastic tray or baking tray that is covered with greaseproof paper and put in the freezer for two hours, until the fruit is solid. Place the frozen fruit in a liquidiser or blender. Add the orange and lemon juice and honey and whizz until smooth. Pour the Sweet Eve Strawberry Hawaii
Slush into tall glasses and serve.

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Sweet Eve Strawberry Tapas

This is such a simple and easy way of serving fresh, ripe seasonal strawberries at the end of a relaxed supper party. Everyone can get stuck into their preferred flavour combinations, and can taste each accompaniment. Ricotta is an Italian whey cheese and can be found in most supermarkets. Let the sweet and fragrant taste of Sweet Eve strawberries speak for itself, or enhance it by dipping in this wonderful array of spices and flavours.

Serves 4 / Preparation time: 15 minutes

Ingredients

• 500g fresh Sweet Eve strawberries
• 100g Schwartz black peppercorns
• 100g red peppercorns
• 250g Galbani® Ricotta cheese
• ½ teaspoon of Schwartz ground cinnamon
• 100ml of aged traditional, balsamic
• vinegar from Modena
• Zest of 1 unwaxed lemon
• 100g unrefined soft brown cane sugar

Method

Hull and clean the strawberries, removing the green stem with a teaspoon. Now slice the strawberries in half, and place them in a serving bowl on a tray. Prepare 5 more small bowls, all to be served on the same tray.
Using a pestle and mortar, lightly crush the black peppercorns, and then place them in a small bowl, on the same tray as the strawberries. Lightly crush the red peppercorns, as above, and place them in a separate
bowl, again on the tray. Mix the ricotta in another bowl with the ground cinnamon. Pour the balsamic vinegar in a small bowl. Place the lemon zest in another bowl, and mix in the sugar. Serve the prepared tray to your guests, and they can dip each strawberry into the flavours alternatively.

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Smoked mackerel with spring onion, fennel and watercress salad with mustard dressing and croutons

Serves 2

Ingredients

• 1 medium smoked mackerel
• 2 medium spring onions
• ¼ fennel bulb
• 1 bunch watercress, washed and picked through
• 1 slice stale white bread, cut into approx 1 cm cubes
• 6 tbsp virgin rapeseed oil
• 1 tbsp cider vinegar
• 2 tsp English mustard
• ½ tsp runny honey

Fine sea salt, sea salt flakes and ground black pepper

METHOD

1. First make the dressing. Mix together the mustard, honey, cider vinegar and 4 tbsp of rapeseed oil in a clean jam jar or small bottle with a lid and shake vigorously to blend. Taste, season with fine sea salt and adjust ingredients as preferred.
2. Next the croutons: heat 2 tbsp of oil in a pan then fry the cubes of bread untilgolden all over. Remove from the pan and drain on kitchen paper.
3. De bone and remove the skin from the mackerel and break the flesh up into bite-sized pieces.
4. With a man doline or sharp knife, very thinly slice the fennel and spring onions.
5. Mix together the fennel, water cressand some of the dressing and then arrange the salad. Place the watercress and fennel first on the plate, in a small pile, then lay on the pieces of mackerel, with sea salt flakes and black pepper, and finally the slices of spring onion over the top. Drizzle over more dressing and arrange the croutons roughly around the outside of the plate.

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Wild garlic

Also known as Ramsons, you’ll find bunches of slim, green, wild garlic leaves on our farmers’ market stalls
from Ted’s Veg to Brambletye Farm and naturally, The Garlic Farm. Alham Wood Dairy wraps them around their little Lambos buffalo milk cheese. Pasta maker Giovanni Carleschi of Simply Italian is passionate about
using local, seasonal ingredients in his products and uses wild garlic to make wild garlic pesto. If you spot
wild garlic growing wild, usually in woodlands but also spotted in inner London parks and open spaces, you’ll  not mistake it for anything else. Tear off a piece of leaf and the pungent aroma is an instant giveaway. Use it
in sauces, soups and salads, add to mashed potatoes, make pesto with it, and stir into a risotto. Like other
delicate leaves it will wilt immediately (think spinach) and leave behind a delicate breath of garlic.

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Smoked mackerel

If you usually buy smoked mackerel from the supermarket, do yourself and your taste buds a favour and instead buy direct from a fisherman and you won’t ever go back. Mackerel at farmers’ markets is caught by our fishermen from small day boats, often line caught and as fresh as you can get. Smoked, it’s often sold as a
whole fish rather than fillets, succulent and flavoursome. Full of omega-3 fatty acids and tasty too. This salad is great for spring; the robust flavours of the mackerel stand up well to the zingy watercress and crunchy fennel.

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