Can you really cook fish for dinner seven days a week? Peter offers me fantastic dinners every day, and right now it's pretty much all fish. We really love fish and it is a raw material that can be varied endlessly. Today we are simply offering photos and inspiration for more fish dinners. Do you usually cook fish, and if so, what kind of dishes?
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Hard to cook fish?
We know that some people think that cooking fish is difficult, but we think almost the opposite. Meat can easily become dry or tough, but fish almost always turns out well. Doesn't that make it boring ... or expensive? We probably never get tired of fish, which can be varied endlessly.
When it comes to price, we always check carefully and take advantage of good prices. Peter usually buys a lot at once when it's cheap and freezes it in portions. Then he just has to start cooking dinner!
Lately, we've been getting some extra luxurious fish varieties as we've made a few finds in the fish counters and a lot of mushrooms as they are in season. In the past we have also written about fish gratin and if fish with delicious accompaniments.
Monday: Fried pike-perch
Why not start the week with fried pike-perch? Usually, pike-perch is a rather expensive fish, but when Peter found it at a good price, he immediately went shopping for two dinners. The first one was fried walleye with bacon, chanterelles, boiled potatoes and broccoli.
Tuesday: Salmon steak
Steaks with minced salmon are sometimes delicious. Peter puts the salmon in the blender and mixes it with breadcrumbs, egg yolk and salt and pepper. Here he has served it with a delicious root vegetable casserole and a fantastic basil cream.
Wednesday: Bacon wrapped monkfish
We don't eat monkfish often, but Peter recently found this fish at a good price. Monkfish is firm in the flesh and good for frying or grilling. Peter served bacon-wrapped 'monkfish medallions' with chanterelles, asparagus and boiled potatoes.
Thursday: Oven-baked salmon
Oven-baked salmon is always delicious and can be served with many different side dishes. Most recently, it was wedge potatoes, chanterelles, broccoli and basil cream that was left over from the salmon steak dinner.
Friday: Mussels
Mussels are never wrong! Peter cooks them with white wine and serves them with some parsley. Fantastic with bread and cheese.
Saturday: Tuna
Fresh tuna is usually expensive, but we have found a shop that often has a good price on tuna, so lately we have been eating it more often than usual. Most of the time we serve it with jacket potatoes, lime aioli and broccoli. If you're not used to cooking fresh tuna, Peter has made a film showing you how to do it.
Sunday: Gratuity with pike-perch
One day Peter made a really good gratin with pike-perch, mashed potatoes, prawns, crayfish tails and mushrooms. Am I being spoilt? Yes, that's probably the case ...
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Lena - good for the soul says:
Wow, so much good stuff! I really like fish, but I can't bring myself to make it myself very often. Pike perch, bacon and funnel cakes are so good!
Thanks for the pep talk!
Hug Lena
11 October 2017 - 6:23
Helena says:
I understand what you mean. But fish doesn't have to be so complicated really. A piece of salmon in the oven or a piece of white fish in some cream (or similar) will be ready in 20 minutes 🙂.
11 October 2017 - 7:00
Mr Steve says:
Wow, so many goodies! Peter is an expert in the kitchen too. And another first-class film by the master chef.
We often eat fish, but unfortunately D cannot tolerate salmon and mussels, for example. D often uses cod in the fish dishes, which can be varied endlessly....
11 October 2017 - 6:46
Helena says:
It's sad that D can't stand salmon and mussels, but luckily there are other fish! We also eat a lot of cod (although it didn't come up now because we've been eating other fish lately).
11 October 2017 - 7:01
Across the board says:
I would also like to have a home chef who cooks so much good food! I used to think that fish was difficult to vary, but now I get fish a couple of times a week anyway. My favourite right now is fried salmon topped with crispy bacon and preferably a creamy risotto.
11 October 2017 - 6:54
Helena says:
It is perfect with a chef at home 🙂 Risotto sounds super good with salmon! We have made risotto only once, but it can be very good!
11 October 2017 - 7:03
Eva Mauleon says:
That all sounded good!
Here we struggle to make room for fish at least once a week. With meat in abundance from our own farm it can be tough, beef, lamb, elk, wild boar, deer, stag and musk ox....
Fun with fish inspiration!
11 October 2017 - 7:20
Helena says:
Meat from your own farm does not sound stupid at all! 🙂
11 October 2017 - 16:45
LinizTravel says:
But soooo good 🙂 I really love fish! Thanks for the inspo 🙂 hugs
11 October 2017 - 7:54
LinizTravel says:
Well come to think of it I have a salmon recipe that came up
In a cookery book, I'll look it up for you 😉.
11 October 2017 - 7:55
Helena says:
New fish recipes are never wrong! 🙂
11 October 2017 - 16:46
Anonymous says:
Oh, such lovely plates, all equally tempting. We also eat a lot of fish, at least three days a week and I recognise the idea of buying fresh fish when the price is good and freezing it, the taste is not comparable to the much more boring fish in the freezer.
Our favourite is probably the simplest, a thick piece of cod back in the oven (super easy with a thermometer), boiled potatoes, clarified butter and lots of freshly grated ginger. On occasion, we like to replace the cod with halibut. Yummy!
Otherwise, salmon is great to vary in lots of different ways and now I got additional tips on e.g. pike-perch, which we have never cooked!
11 October 2017 - 7:55
Britt-Marie Lundgren says:
It was not meant to be anonymous, but it looks just as good anyway!!!
11 October 2017 - 15:58
Britt-Marie Lundgren says:
My goodness, of course it should be horseradish and not ginger. Today there were not many dishes!
11 October 2017 - 16:18
Helena says:
I agree that cod back is very good! And you do not have to complicate it, fish is so good in itself! And haha, sometimes it blurred wrong, but it was still right in the end! 😉
11 October 2017 - 16:48
Karin Eklund says:
Yes, fish seven days a week does not sit badly with us at all. When we fished more ourselves, we created many different fish recipes. Now, unfortunately, we don't eat as much fish a week as we used to, but it's still delicious. Your pictures of Peter's dishes are just wow, wow!
Feeling inspired! Here's some fish ....
11 October 2017 - 7:58
Helena says:
Great if we could inspire! 🙂
11 October 2017 - 16:49
Only British says:
Yum, I love fish and mussels and pike-perch is a favourite. Just be careful where the salmon comes from. Ethoxicine, which is not healthy at all, is found in excessive amounts in fish feed for farmed salmon and the farms create problems for wild salmon in various ways.
11 October 2017 - 8:16
Helena says:
You are right that you should think about which fish you buy!
11 October 2017 - 16:50
Marina says:
Oooooh, that's fantastic, and yes, you are spoilt 😉 We cook a lot of fish, and we haven't had meat since the summer barbecue sausages. "An ordinary piece of meat" I don't know when we last made. And of course it is possible to vary fish in all possible ways and it looks like you have an expert in that area within the walls 🙂.
11 October 2017 - 9:17
Helena says:
Yes, that's what I suspected, that I'm a bit spoilt ... 😉 Glad you also eat a lot of fish. We also rarely eat a piece of meat. However, it happens that we, for example, make a goulash or eat something with chicken.
11 October 2017 - 16:52
Elisabeth says:
Fish is good, so I can eat fish often.
11 October 2017 - 9:37
Ama de casa says:
So very good! It was the bacon-wrapped monkfish that opened my eyes to the - in my opinion - most delicious fish. Enjoyed it in France in 1998, hardly knew it existed before. But gosh how expensive it is in Sweden!
Mussels are never wrong either 🙂
11 October 2017 - 9:38
Helena says:
Marulk is really good! We eat it very rarely, partly because of the price, but now Peter had found a good price ðŸ™'
11 October 2017 - 16:53
Lena in Wales says:
My father would have loved Peter!!!
He wanted fish 5 days a week, but my mum put her foot down and said 3 days/week is enough. So that was my upbringing. When other children were given meatballs, kalops, meat sauce, sausages and other goodies, I sat there and bony fish on the plate and bony rice in my mouth! I hated fish as a child and it took a few years into my youth before I ate fish voluntarily. Today it is completely different, I love fish! And we eat a lot of fish these days, preferably here in Spain. Yesterday it was fried tuna and another day swordfish and a whole lot of good prawns too. Yum!!! Mussels are on the menu at the end of the week.
Thanks for the fish inspiration!
11 October 2017 - 10:10
Helena says:
Sad that you didn't like fish as a child, but glad that it didn't stop you from liking fish today! It sounds like you eat a lot of good things from the sea! 🙂
11 October 2017 - 16:54
Ditte says:
It's nice to have some different fish recipes. And fish and seafood can be varied endlessly. Tasty!
We probably eat fish, boneless, and seafood at least three times a week. We have a great fish shop on Götgatan that is often visited and otherwise it is often Hötorgshallen or Urban Deli where we buy fish. (Meat too) Maybe a little more expensive but so good quality. Quite important.
I will definitely try to cook tuna according to Peter's recipe, because at home I have mostly tried tuna for homemade sushi.
11 October 2017 - 10:24
Helena says:
The quality is of course also important! Tuna in Peter's way is super tasty ðŸ™'
11 October 2017 - 16:55
Mr Nils-Åke Hansson says:
It is perfectly possible to eat fish 7 days a week. Looks so delicious.
I started cooking with the lads last night, with a stew of leafy beef and a beer and schnapps to go with it...,
11 October 2017 - 10:25
Helena says:
It sounds like the blokes had a good night last night!
11 October 2017 - 16:56
Alexandra says:
Fish and seafood are really two of the things that make life worth living haha!
Peter seems really good at making fish, I'm a bit lazy when it comes to cooking. That fish gratin for Sunday - does he want to write a recipe for how to make it?
11 October 2017 - 10:26
Helena says:
He roughly followed a recipe he found here: https://www.ica.se/recept/gos-ebba-brahe-683058/
11 October 2017 - 18:27
snort says:
Fish is a safe bet and can be varied endlessly, but for seven days I'm not sure I'd want to eat it....
11 October 2017 - 10:40
Helena says:
Hehe, it's good that you get to choose yourself... 😉.
11 October 2017 - 18:58
Berit "desires" says:
Wow what great recipes, love fish! You both are really creative when it comes to most things! Thank you??
11 October 2017 - 10:44
Helena says:
But wow, thanks for the nice feedback Berit! 🙂
11 October 2017 - 18:58
Lennart says:
Fish is delicious but we don't eat it enough,
11 October 2017 - 11:53
Helena says:
You don't have to eat every day of course ... but we hope we can contribute with some inspiration anyway 🙂 .
11 October 2017 - 18:59
Anette says:
Wow, what a lot of good stuff. They say that fish makes you wise, if that's true your IQ must be sky high. ?
11 October 2017 - 13:21
Helena says:
Haha, then we must be super smart ... 🙂 ...
11 October 2017 - 19:00
Ruth in Virginia says:
I like fish. But quality fish is very expensive, so it is not often for us. During WWII we got fish many times a week, because
meat was strictly rationed. But it was mostly herring and so
whitefish and perch, sometimes pike, from the neighbouring lake. Coming
especially remembering boiled pike with egg sauce. Very good as long as you
had to pick out the bones. - My mum was a caterer and she cooked for
35-40 people. I don't know how many kilos of herring I cleaned in the
my life!!! Herring was my favourite dish when I visited Sweden;
does not exist here, unfortunately.
Peter is phenomenal in the kitchen - well, in other departments, too.
but judging by the photos, everything he makes is super-delicate.
(except for the mussels) 🙂
11 October 2017 - 13:26
Helena says:
Oh how interesting to hear about Ruth! I also like herring. We never cook it at home, but I like to eat it at a lunch restaurant from time to time 🙂 .
11 October 2017 - 19:01
åsa in åsele says:
Fish is good, but J & E don't think so.
Elin thinks fish once a week at school is often enough 😉.
Here, mostly only frozen "portion-packed" fish such as salmon, plaice, fish sticks, etc. are sold, i.e. frozen fish 😉 it is probably not even six times a year there is fresh fish to buy at the local ICA, COOP.
However, we have - in Vilhelmina - a first-class fish shop 🙂 .
11 October 2017 - 13:34
Helena says:
Sad that there is no fresh fish, but lucky that you have Vilhelmina then! Not everyone likes fish, but if they are lucky, they will discover it later in life 🙂.
11 October 2017 - 19:02
Birgitta in Umeå says:
Some more inspiration from me in Umeå. How about the delicacy surströmming? My husband doesn't eat it (Sörlänning) so I always feel lonely.
Otherwise, we eat tuna and often seafood.
Luckily, we have the old Obbola saltworks very close by. Herring, perch, salmon and whitefish are fished there. We often go there and buy whitefish roe, smoked whitefish and fresh salmon. As well as their own pickled herring.
11 October 2017 - 14:02
Helena says:
Surströmming .... njä... Can I blame it on the fact that I come from Skåne? I've actually tried once, but I'm not super keen to try more times, haha 😉 What a lovely place you have in the neighbourhood! Chicory ... yum!!!
11 October 2017 - 19:04
Maggan and Ingemar says:
Fish is good and healthy, as we older people should not eat so much red meat. We usually eat salmon and herring, but other types of fish can sometimes end up on the plate, especially when we are abroad. How lucky you are to have a cook at home....I'm a bit jealous of you. Unfortunately, my husband can't cook...well, sausages 😀 but I don't think he is particularly interested either. 😀
11 October 2017 - 15:50
Helena says:
Yes, it is really good to have a cook at home! He cooks dinner and then there is a lunch box for me too, which I take to work 🙂 But of course it is related to interest ...!
11 October 2017 - 19:05
BP says:
Dregel, dregel!!! Another great film by and with Peter. Fish is not complicated to prepare I think, but I am less fond of the food odour that remains in the kitchen afterwards, especially after fried salmon.
Pike perch, monkfish and mussels - MUMS:-)
11 October 2017 - 17:12
Helena says:
I can see what you mean about the smell of food. We don't often fry salmon, but usually do it in the oven. Then there is a little less cheese, I think. But of course there can be a food odour anyway.
11 October 2017 - 19:06
Lena & Jan says:
Thanks Peter, we will practice this more now that we are in Roquetas de Mar, love seafood, here the prices are acceptable! Hugs Lena & Jan
11 October 2017 - 20:28
Helena says:
Fish prices are good in the South! Have a great time! Hugs
12 October 2017 - 19:02