I'll eat anything that swims (nearly)

BBQ Lemmon Pepper "Shad" from Coffee Bay (serves 2) 

Seems like it's taken forever to have my first bite of scaly goodness. So far, fish, along the Wild Coast have been pretty unremarkable - over cooked mussels, battered KFC tasting line caught pong - but that track record is history - for about 2 quid you can get yourself a fish from a local fisherman - fillet it (Mamma Bat took charge) - wrap in tin foil with heeps of lemon pepper and cloves of garlic and then go right back out and do it again - cause believe me, when your finished, your yearning for one more bite.

 

1 fresh lemon sliced (juice poured on fish)
1 med Shad fish (I think seabass tastes pretty similar)
1 tsp salt
3 tsp palm sugar
1/2 tsp paprika
handful of crushed black peppercorns 

1 tsp of whole pepper corns

hearty drizzle of olive oil

So after you fillet the fish, place each fillet on a tin foil crafted plate and add all the ingredients, by rubbing them into the fish. Close the opening of your tin-foiled fish so none of the juice gets out and cook on a BBQ for about 13 mins on each side (until it's not translucent anymore and it has a nice firm texture).

My friends have good taste

Eating London H I T L I S T


A few dayz until my African food Odessa and I got a chance to catch up on some hot spots to dine in London. But when choice is endless and time is short, it felt like the best route to follow were friends favs - and this is where they brought me.


Caravan (11-13 Exmouth Marker, London): I am such an easy please for a weekend breakfast, any combo of streaky bacon and poached eggs will normally suffice, but C A R A V A N is a new moment in food time - totalz going straight to the top of my best breakfast of 2010. Toasted sour dough bread, slow roasted tomatoes - gorgeously amber with burned edges, soy creamed mushrooms - with that amazing truffle quality and deep chocolatey taste (I somehow managed to keep a couple to savor in my last bite), on top of these you have perfectly cooked streaky bacon that's crispy and oily and two runny poached eggs. The rest of the menu was totally great and exciting too, mackerel / avocado with chilli flakes - they also roast all their own coffee downstairs. UNREAL

The Breakfast Club (Camdem Passage, Angel): The portions sprawl upwards and outwards from the plate - gee this it - exactly how you imagine it - and a challenge worth attempting. I got chicken burrito - it was so chubby - rammed to bursting with rice and chicken and beans and cheese - served with sour cream and 3 tomato chutney. This is dream hungry lunch material - pure satisfaction. The menu is piping with things I wanna try next. BTW NEW B'FAST CLUB OPENING SPITALFIELDS EARLY NEXT YEAR with Jen the Ren manning this food den eco style. LOVE. 

Song Que Cafe (Kingsland Road, Easy London): The bottom end of Kingsland road is a total hub of Vietnamese food spots - app the Song Que is Jamie Olivers fav - also my friend Alex's so this is where we all went. Nice canteen style feel with high ceilings, paintings of running horses and pretty rammed. Hands down the best spring rolls, the battered king prawns were abit 'cheap take away' to look at but such a hearty bite. The spicy salt squid had translucent seemed like egg white batter - so light and crisp - also check out the poached ginger and chilli sea bream. . .  so much flavor, that awkward plate licking thing happens.