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Duck breast Fish pie Lasagna Spaghetti al limone
cooking pot
food and wine are made for each other

Fish pie (serves 6)
1.5kg fish (mixture of flakey, white fish eg cod, hake, coley, and cartiligenous eg skate, dogfish, rock)
Shellfish (mussels essential, scallops optional)
Half bottle white wine
A bouquet garni
1.5kg potatoes
100g butter
Enough milk
2 tbs flour

1 Put all the fish with the wine, bouquet garni & enough water to cover in pan, simmer for about 10 mins
2 Add shellfish, simmer further 5 mins
3 Drain, reserving liquid; flake fish, discard bones & bouquet garni
4 Reduce cooking liquid until down to a cup or so; make roux & add the cooking liquid then milk to make white sauce
5 Boil floury potatoes until soft; drain; add milk & let simmer; add butter & pass through a mouli legumes
6 Mix fish and white sauce in an ovenproof dish; top with the mashed potato
7 Bake for about 20-25 mins in a medium oven until light brown

Wine: white for this one, Dom les Yeuses Vermentino, or the fatter Dom de Valensac Chardonnay

  
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