Homegrown meal #5

Well, I'm feeling pretty good that I'm easily coming up with meals made from ingredients readily available in New Zealand. And interestingly, these are all favourites - so I guess I've been making my way towards eating locally even though I wasn't all that conscious of it. Sure we eat lentils, rice, split peas and polenta which are all imported - but they certainly don't feature as regular meals anymore.

Tonight's meal was Fish Pie.

We don't eat fish often, but when we do, this is what I turn it into.

300-400gm fresh fish
2 boiled eggs
6 boiled potatoes
1 cup corn kernels (I use my own frozen ones from my autumn harvest - but have now run out)
1 spring onion
1/4 cup parsley
3 T flour
3 T butter
1.5 cups milk
2-3 T cheese

Boil up the potatoes and eggs together. Remove the eggs and mash the potatoes (if I have pumpkin I'll do a 50/50 with pumpkin and potato).
In a pan, melt the butter, add the flour and let bubble for a few seconds. Add the milk and stir till a smooth white sauce. Add in the fish, corn, parsley, spring onion and the chopped up boiled eggs.
Once all cooked through, put into a casserole dish, top with mashed potato and sprinkle the cheese on top and bake for 20mins.

So, out of my 5 meals listed here to date, 2 are vegetarian - I haven't listed out all the soups that we also eat which are vegetarian (and most often vegan)...borscht, potato and leek, spinach and potato, cabbage and potato (note the potato theme lol) not to mention the many other vegetable combo's I haven't tried out yet.