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    Gnocchi

    Really rather good, and making gnocchi is not at all an arse, which was surprising. Much more straight forward than making good pasta. With the foresight to bake some potatoes the day before this is quite achievable mid-week. The accompanying meal is little more than fry with peas and dragon with salt, pepper and lemon. Finish with parmasan But it works damn well. From Gordon Ramsey – Ultimate Cooking Course, pg. 150

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    Fish Pie

    We have sauce! Excellent fish pie, better that the previous attempts even without the topping of cheese.  The wonderful sauce spilling out from beneath the potato is joy after two prior failed attempts. The noilly prat, or rather the extra dry Martini that I used here, is a lovely addition. Though I note I wager it would be possible to use a dry sherry if that’s all that was available. I feel like it’s not the last word on the potatoes, regardless, they were damn good, but perhaps a little more dense than is perfect.  Possibly attributable to the desiree…