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Classic NZ Fish Pie. Or as classic as you can make it in a foreign country with substitute ingredients.
This should be made with fresh smoked NZ kawhai. I made it with frozen north sea cod.
My daughter who loves anything from downunder has asked me to make this for months. Or is it years, Elli Mou? Although I've eaten this pie in years gone by I don't think I've ever cooked it.
Carnivore Flatbread
For the last 2 and a half years I've been eating an animal based diet. Mainly meat and eggs, fish, cheese. No bread, cake or packaged goodies. No sugar. Most of the time. I eat cake and icecream on a birthday or a name day. If I feel like it. You get the picture. I've lost a lot of weight in the past 4 years. One day I'll tell you all about it and show the photos.
I miss bread for the sandwiches and its satisfying chewiness. Now and again carnivore bread recipes turn up on the youtube vlogs I follow. I've found an easy one which turns out like a wrap and I can wrap it around some ham and cheese and maybe a slice of lettuce or tomato.
Lamington Balls
My dear kiwi family brought packets of this mix with them. I've made one lot. Chocolate balls with coconut in them and cashews.
There are some ingenious ways of making substitutes for our favourite forbidden foods. I am much too lazy to try them though and have just accepted that I'll have to do without now.
ReplyDeleteYes, I don't think Ill be making anymore 'bread'. It really is all too much fuss.
DeleteI made substitute icecream over the summer. That was really pushing it.....cottage cheese and stevia. Not worth it
Fish Pie is my usual go-to when I have to take food to a big event. I use smoked kawahai in white sauce with lemon juice, parsley, roughly chopped hard boiled egg, and topped with mashed potato then decorated with breadcrumbs and sliced tomato. It always seems to be popular (which is why I always take it LOL).
ReplyDeleteOh do I wish we could get smoked fish. We do have a smoker somewhere which I brought back from NZ but I think its rusting in a family backyard. We can get smoked tuna in a can but I'm wary of using that in case I spoil the whole dish.
DeleteI'm glad to hear it's still popular!!
We (J not me!) often makes meat and potato pies and pasties because we can't buy them over here.
ReplyDeleteOH, yes, I do make pies like that now and again. I just might make a few for my birthday dinner. We all love those pies!!!
DeleteYou mentioning the hard boiled eggs topped with potatoes reminded me of a ‘favourite ’ when ours were young
ReplyDeleteSounds gross now but, a tin of baked beans halved boiled eggs cheese sauce mashed potatoes cheese topping - in the oven until cooked……they loved it
MMmm I would love that. My grandson took one look at that fish pie with boiled eggs and turned up his nose in disgust. I didn't try any because the whole thing was going to my daughter but I will definitely keep a portion for myself next time
DeleteMy husband has also adopted a carnivore type diet on and off over the past couple of years. He is not strict (it's the night time snacking that does him in) but he feels better doing this. He eats a lot of eggs - boiled ones, too. -Jenn
ReplyDeleteEggs are a basic. You can eat them in so many ways. I always have a dozen or so on hand and a few boiled ones ready to go.
DeleteCarnivore has helped me lose weight, not all of it. I came to it late but I too feel better and am much healthier. Nice to hear someone else that is following. It's such a different idea
Eat your heart out Linda...we had smoked fish pie 3 nights ago with freshly caught kahawai from Wolf. Rainy put the salt and sugar on it and I smoked it. Ade actually made the pie but forgot the hard boiled eggs. Never mind ... I just cooked them separately and mixed it in just before we ate the pie. Added a wee bit if curry powder and finely chopped celery too. Oh it was goid
ReplyDeleteBev, my dear sis in law, how dare you 😅 but it really is good to hear that it's still on the kiwi menu. We must find that smoker. Certainly no trouble finding the fish. I'll try the curry powder and celery. I think I put peas in it too. I wasn't going to make another one. Now I MUST,!
DeleteComfort food. Havenhad a decent fish pie gor years. Must put a smokehouse on my list of things to build....smoked fish, smoked eggs (they are good), smoked cheese, smoked garlic... I love anything smoked - it's probably all really bad for me in some newly discovered scientific way but Id rather die of smoked food than from microplastics and ultraprocessed junk.
ReplyDeleteSmoked I'm sure is the way to go. Why not. When in NZ do as the natives do . Darn, I really do have to find out smoker. I brought it back from NZ years ago in my suitcase. We've only used it a few times
Deleteoh heck yes! Smoked fish pie. A true kiwi classic. Best fish I have ever used for this was smoked Snapper or Kahawai. What did K think of it?
ReplyDeleteYou make me laugh!!! K wouldn't think of eating anything with fish in sauce and hard boiled eggs. But actually I didn't make him taste it, this time. The whole pie went to my daughter.
DeleteYou've all inspired me to make another and this time half of it will stay here
Why would you have to use a recipe book for a classic NZ dish? All the classic stuff that I cook what my mother used to do I just make it by instinct. White sauce, fish and potatoes I do as by habit.
ReplyDeleteI just read it again and decided you probably do it by instinct and I misunderstood!
DeleteI dont remember ever making it and its 50 years since I ate it. Probably. I had to check a recipe book
DeleteI’m the past I too have been on the keto diet. It’s fine for a while but I’m Greek and we eat bread. Lots of bread. And I missed it so much.
ReplyDeleteThe fish pie sounds nice. Might have to try and make it one day
Australia must have a similar fish pie recipe. The greeks dont seem to go for fish in a pie. Fried, grilled or baked
DeleteI try not to eat much bread, but not always successfully. I've just had two slices of toast for breakfast!
ReplyDeleteBread is hard to give up. Bread and marmite, bread and marmelade, sandwiches. It's a basic in the english diet
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