See the dainty spoon also from Korea!
It feels like I am either getting onto a plane or exiting a plane as I am again preparing for a work trip away for a week, away from my precious Cape Town-UUURGGHH. Away for work once a month or more means at least 24 flights a year without any personal travelling, not funny let me tell you.I would definitely not make a very good air hostess, or any other hostess come to think of it!
out of the suitcase!
What with the loot I brought home from my travels in December, I could not wait to start using the food isle worth of products that came out of my suitcase. I fell in love with the simplicity of the finely shredded cabbage salad, garnished with micro greens and with a light green mayonaise dressing or also served with an Asian soy dressing in most of the Korean restaurants. I could not figure out what was in the light green dressing to make it light green but saw in the food shops that they sell the dressing with a picture of kiwi fruit on the lable, which I bought but it tasted too sweet and not like the good stuff in the restaurants-will need to google to try and find out more about this.
Round pears!
I took this photo in Korea as whilst there, I already started making the salad, but just see the massive ROUND pears you get there, biggest I have seen in my life and although slightly different in taste from our normal pear shaped pears, also very delicious and juicy. Which makes me think I want to make a pear and blue cheese salad tonight, have to have blue cheese after reading 2 blog posts this morning featuring the blues!
Sweet potato fish cakes
But back to the current post. I ” needed” fish cakes with the Asian cabbage salad ( with pineapple added) and I prefer a decent sized fish cake and not these dainty little things served as a starter in the restaurants here. I wish they would put fish cakes on the menu’s as a mains and not only as a taster/starter as is the way here in our “hood”.
Use own quantities of the following for the fish cakes (sorry but I do not measure-therefore I rarely bake…..)
Boiled and roughly mashed sweet potato
Deboned and skinless hake and salmon, poach in milk and dill until soft and flaky
Finely grated carrots and flash fry it just to take the moist out
Chopped chives, spring onions and parsley
Fish spice, salt and pepper to taste
2 eggs( ore more to bind the mixture depending on your quantities)
Flour to roll in
Dried bread crumbs to coat
Oil for frying
The process is easy, mix the ingredients and spice to taste. Roll in decent size balls and roll in the flower, dip into beaten egg and roll into the bread crumbs.
If you have time, place in the fridge for 30 minutes to set. Press lightly into warm shallow oil to flatten the ball into a round fish cake shape and fry until golden brown.
It went well with a green salad with pomegranate, grapes and lemon wedges followed by lemon coconut cream desert posted here (any excuse to use my new spoons!).
Coconut lemon cream
Random photo of the day:
late afternoon Paternoster
Those spoons!! Never let me near them… Must make this one! Mouth watering and I have the perfect Balsamic & pomegranate salad dressing from Het Vlock Casteel…
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The spoons have forks too! En n dainty glas mandjie waarin die spulletjie bly. Jy sal huil. Jy mag dit sien mits jy jou viskoekies blog! Hehe. Het Vlock bo!!
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Um moenie my tart nie, ek gaan daai lepels en vurkies steel, ek waarsku jou.. Sal werk aan die blogs belowe. Weereens dankie vir die Het Vlock intro!
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Beautiful post! Love al die foto’s!!!Kan nie wag om die viskoekies te proe nie!
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El sal maak ek belowe. En n koek bak vir Dave….
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Love fishcakes – and I empathise with the crappy business travelling!
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Very crappy indeed. 9 years already and such a schlep, it feels like a suitcase is always attached to some part of me.
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Never mind the fish cakes, I want the spoons! Nothing wrong with fish cakes, of course, if you like fish. 🙂 Coconut cream sounds perfect to end any meal. Going to visit that recipe right now.
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Let me tell you the suitcase was like an open well! There are matching forks as well….will post a pic sometime soon. Try the cream, we can’t have enough of it.
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Your blog and this post look absolutely delightful. The fishcakes, salads, coconut lemon creams are delectable, and yes, the spoons are worth showing off!
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Thanks Fae! The spoons have matching forks and a porcelain basket to hold it all. You can imagine my excitement! Try the Hyundai shopping centre in Busan when you are there, they stock it and then some! The Asian markets too. Are you still visiting Cape Town this year?
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I will definitely check Hyundai shopping center if it is in our path. Yes, we are scheduled only one day in Cape Town, May 6 and will fly home the following day.
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Agreed 🙂
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Food souveniers are just so increadibly fabulous! Great recipe (and really cute spoons!) Happy travels.
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Thank you! Love my spoons.
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Everything looks beautiful and delish! Are those Asian Pears? LOVE those! And I especially love your random photo. Wish I could be walking on that beach!
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Thank you! Yes Asian pears and so huge, enough for three people.
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I always hated business travelling too, everyone thinks its glamorous but it’s really not. I can’t wait to make these, I love fish cakes but have never made them myself.
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Let me know what you think when you have made them. I would love to know. Dead easy really. Bad part about the business travel is that I am never in my own house for longer than three weeks. Bleh!
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What a nice post! Beautiful photos and the fish cakes look so good, especially the coconut cream. I love anything with coconut. There’s a Korean supermarket about 8 miles from where we live and they sell those spoons. I bought some years ago. I use them to stir my tea. 😉
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How can one not be hungry when you visit this blog? and how can you not want to start being recipe creative and go shopping for some grand table pieces? Agreed, beautiful post 🙂
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Hehe. Glad you like. And one can never have enough trinkets for the table, or enough trinkets full stop!
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Yes, I know. It always makes me hungry whenever I look at delicious foods. 😀
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Thank you so much! Love my spoons and matching forks. Will treasure them. They have great stuff in the East.
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Yes, they sure do. 🙂
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Unique and delicious. Thanks for sharing!
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Thank you Liz. I love any for of fish cake.
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Ah viskoekies!! Mooi fotos xx
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Ook op die lys!🌺
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