What's in my freezer - fishcakes?

I have, among other things:

*Eggs
*Potatoes
*Some cheap frozen 'white fish'.
*Stale bread in the cupboard
*Lemon juice
*A few herbs in the garden, including nasturtium, thyme, rosemary and sage. Oh and turnip tops.
* Various dried spices in the cupboard.

I reckon I can make some fairly appetising fish cakes from these things. My ad-hoc recipe might go something like this. What do we reckon:

1. Poach some fish until not quite done, and set aside.
2. Boil and mash some potatoes, taking care not to boil quite fully.
3. Mix fish and mash together, along with a dash of lemon juice.
4. Mix in some roughly chopped nasturtium (for peppery flavour)
5. Mold into fishcake shapes.
6. Rub stale bread into crumbs.
7. Pat fish cakes into bread crumbs.
8. Paint with beaten egg.
9. Finish either in the frying pan, or the oven, until golden.

Does this sound about right? Would anyone change anything?

 

Add some chopped onion. Add egg yolk to mix to help bind. change 6 & 7 around. Chill in fridge before cooking to help them hold their shape (flash freeze if deep frying).

 

to the basic recipe,

add a few chopped fresh chilies, some fresh ground black pepper, a splash of soya sauce and serve with a chilli dip sauce and you will have Thai fishcakes

 

I'll be round with a bottle of Rum Dave

 

Thanks all. As always, lots of good tips and advice.

I might have a go at making them tomorrow.

If I make loads up, how would I prepare them for freezing? Would I make them and then part cook them before freezing? Or make them up and then just freeze them rather than sticking them in the oven? Or something else?

 

I know exactly what you mean, and I'm sort of with you on that. But one day there was nothing on at the work canteen except fishcakes, chips and peas, so I gave it ago, and I enjoyed it. So then we bought some fishcakes from the shop and they were as awful as I remembered. However, I figured with a bit of experimentation, I reckon I can make nice ones.

 

Nothing wrong with fishcakes, esp. with a bit of tamari on them. Not the ones we were fed at school though, they were the emergency food supply for the cold war.

 

I've never tried any of those things except shark meat (which I must say was a total anticlimax).

I'd have no problem trying snake meat. I've apparently eaten alligator meat, although I thought I was eating venison or something, I was told afterwards it was alligator, and it may well have been a fib, but in any case it was pretty average.

I don't think I could try ants or beetles though. Its not because they are creepy crawlies. Its because they are too small to gut. Its the idea of eating the whole animal, guts and all, that puts me off. Although there is no logic to that, because I do enjoy cockles and winkles, which look pretty disgusting and their eating habit is pretty repulsive.