salmon bakes

Another experimental night with the added complication of it being a fishy experiment, so the anas promptly do one, again. This time she's out with Hannae Signy Natvik and Ellie in Chiswick. Luckily myself and kayosaurus do have wine tonight, which is just as well.

So we had this dish because for some reason Ocado decided to send an extra tub of ricotta in the order, and bizarrely I'd flicked through May's Delicious and this was on the first page that opened. Weird or what? Anyway, I have no truck with ready-made potato rosti so I found a recipe in Donna Hay's Modern Classics Book 1 and made those instead.

After eating it a few things occur to me:
1. Just because you've got a free 350g tub of ricotta, you don't have to use it all if the recipe only asks for 200g;
2. Don't ignore the timings on the rosti *just because* you don't think they look done. They actually are;
3. If you're going to have a slightly claggy - albeit lovely and lemony - salmon bake with a bit burnt rosti, you probably need some sort of veg.

Despite these drawbacks, the net effect is encouraging and I'll certainly make it again, if only to drive ana out of the house.

sources
salmon bake - Delicious, May 2009, p56
potato rosi - Donna Hay, Modern Classics Book One, p70