I made fish cakes for dinner.
Jul. 12th, 2004 11:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xiphiasNever made them before, mainly because I just don't like fish. My mother used to make fish cakes, mainly because I don't like fish, but now that I'm all growed up, they generally just eat fish if they want fish, instead of making fish cakes.
See, fish cakes, the way my family does 'em, are a way to 1. stretch your food budget by adding cheap filler to food scraps, and 2. a way to attempt to get your finicky kids to eat fish.
The "recipe" I used was something like this:
Take all the leftover (cooked) cod or scrod or other random whitefish that you'd cooked for another meal, and put it into the Kitchenaid mixer. Start the mixer going on the paddle attachment, while you think about what to do next. Throw an egg in there. Add in about a mess of instant mashed potatoes, because, hell, I LIKE instant mashed potatoes. Put in a can of tuna, because why not and that means that you can give the cat tuna juice 'cause she's been doing those big eyes at you ever since you took out the fish. Add mayonnaise, and salt and pepper. Add maybe a little milk to get the consistency right, which is a laugh, because you don't know what consistency you're going for since you've never made these before. Note that the kitchenaid mixer has not really been turned off for any of this stuff. It's just been going.
Take that incredibly stale baguette which you got about a month ago (well, it wasn't stale when we got it), and throw it in the food processor with the steel blade. Make it into breadcrumbs.
Form the fishy mixture into eight patties.
Put a mix of butter and vegetable oil into your biggest frypan. Set the pan on a medium-high heat to get up to a good frying temp.
Coat the eight fishy patties in breadcrumbs.
Fry the eight fishy patties on both sides.
Call Lis in for dinner.
Try them, and discover that, well, you STILL don't like fish, even when you add all these other things.
Watch Lis eat four of them, after saying that she was DEFINITELY going to stop after two. But maybe just one more. Or, well, you don't mind if I have a fourth one, do you?
So we still have four left for lunch tomorrow.
See, fish cakes, the way my family does 'em, are a way to 1. stretch your food budget by adding cheap filler to food scraps, and 2. a way to attempt to get your finicky kids to eat fish.
The "recipe" I used was something like this:
Take all the leftover (cooked) cod or scrod or other random whitefish that you'd cooked for another meal, and put it into the Kitchenaid mixer. Start the mixer going on the paddle attachment, while you think about what to do next. Throw an egg in there. Add in about a mess of instant mashed potatoes, because, hell, I LIKE instant mashed potatoes. Put in a can of tuna, because why not and that means that you can give the cat tuna juice 'cause she's been doing those big eyes at you ever since you took out the fish. Add mayonnaise, and salt and pepper. Add maybe a little milk to get the consistency right, which is a laugh, because you don't know what consistency you're going for since you've never made these before. Note that the kitchenaid mixer has not really been turned off for any of this stuff. It's just been going.
Take that incredibly stale baguette which you got about a month ago (well, it wasn't stale when we got it), and throw it in the food processor with the steel blade. Make it into breadcrumbs.
Form the fishy mixture into eight patties.
Put a mix of butter and vegetable oil into your biggest frypan. Set the pan on a medium-high heat to get up to a good frying temp.
Coat the eight fishy patties in breadcrumbs.
Fry the eight fishy patties on both sides.
Call Lis in for dinner.
Try them, and discover that, well, you STILL don't like fish, even when you add all these other things.
Watch Lis eat four of them, after saying that she was DEFINITELY going to stop after two. But maybe just one more. Or, well, you don't mind if I have a fourth one, do you?
So we still have four left for lunch tomorrow.