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Add your fish and fold in carefully so it doesn’t break up and flake too much, making sure it is covered by the liquid sauce. Tip: make a simple "tarty" sauce to dunk the roes in by mixing natural yoghurt with lemon juice and chopped parsley.

Remove the pan from the heat, and fold in the pasta. (Folding in is a cookery term that basically means ‘gently stir it without mooshing it about too much’.) Tip it into an ovenproof dish, making sure the pasta is pretty much covered in the sauce, add more cheese on top, and optional breadcrumbs if you like that kind of thing, and pop it in the oven at 180C for 45 minutes. Towards the end of the cooking time, pour the remaining 300ml milk into a microwave safe jug. Add 300ml cold water, then add the butter or spread, and the instant mash, and stir well to combine. Microwave on full power for 1 minute, remove and mix well with a fork to break up any lumps, and return to the microwave for another minute on full power. Remove and stir again. The University of Essex announced in May 2015 that it would be awarding Monroe an honorary degree. [60] I’ve wanted to develop this idea from a mad little kernel in my wild head, into a fully fledged recipe, for several years now, and I’m delighted to finally share it with you. It’s all the fun and flavour of a fish pie, in 15 minutes, in one pan, and it’s an enormous hit in my household. Especially with me, because I do the all of the washing up. It’s not made in the traditional way, and I’m sure that there will be some ruffled fins somewhere about the sacrilege of that, but for the convenience and speed and general simplicity of it, it’s worth upsetting a few people. They’re not exactly breaking my door down to scrub my pans anyway. First pop your fish out of the freezer the night before and place it in a food safe bag, container or covered bowl in the fridge to defrost. Add the mixed frozen veg too if you like, but it’s much of a muchness as they’re already cooked, so if you don’t at this stage, they’ll be fine later on.After the 20 no-cook minutes, either remove a quarter of it and blend it to smooth if you have a blender, and return it to the pan, or leave it as is if you’d prefer. Give it your last one-minute blast of heat to get it hot hot again, and serve. Gently clean any excess earth from the mushrooms with a clean tea towel, chop them into small chunks and add to the pan. Shake the herbs over and allow everything to cook together for a few minutes to sauté the garlic and mushrooms. Pour oil into a small deep-sided saucepan to a depth of 5-7cm and put on a medium heat. Be careful of the hot oil! This is one of those dishes that improves if left in the fridge or freezer for the flavours to develop – so freeze leftovers and enjoy them even more the second time around.

If you have time, make the batter an hour or two early and chill it in the fridge. The reaction between hot oil and chilled batter makes for a light, crisp batter. Delicious served with chips and peas.Cook on a gentle heat for a few minutes to soften, season with salt, and sprinkle in the flour. Mix briskly so that the flour coats the onions. Monroe has voiced her support for Scottish independence. "Scotland deserves better than the scraps that Westminster reluctantly throws every now and then while bleeding your resources dry," she tweeted on 7 July 2022. "Happy to come and campaign for the #indyref2 any time - have a lot of love for your beautiful country." [52] Controversy David Cameron's dead son

In 2013, Monroe appeared in a six-week advertising campaign for Sainsbury's supermarket. [34] Writing in The Guardian in 2013 Monroe said she had accepted the equivalent of the living wage for the six weeks that the campaign ran and donated the remainder of the fee to charities including a food bank. [35] Monroe appeared on BBC television's late night political programme This Week in June 2015 [36] and again in May 2019. [37] In the 2017 United Kingdom general election, Monroe intended to stand in Southend West as a candidate for the National Health Action Party, [49] but withdrew after receiving death threats and because of health problems. [50] In May 2017, Monroe participated in a "blind election date" with British television personality Georgia Toffolo in which they discussed politics. [51] BBC iPlayer This Week 23/05/2019". BBC. 23 May 2019. Archived from the original on 24 August 2020 . Retrieved 24 May 2019. Mix the tomatoes, beans and spices, layer and bake. Doesn’t need any cooking before it goes in the oven. When frying, I use a milk pan and pour in 5-7cm of oil, and fry in batches. If you are using a larger pan, you will inevitably use more oil. As always when deep-frying, do it carefully.

Meanwhile, thoroughly rinse your lentils under a cold tap for a few minutes, and then add to the pan. Pour in the wine and tomatoes, add the herbs, and give it all a good stir before turning up the heat until it comes to the boil, then turn it down again to a medium simmer. Grate over the lemon zest, squeeze in the lemon juice and, once the aubergines are soft, tip everything into a mixing bowl. Grate the bread over the top, finely chop the basil and mix in well. Lightly grease your muffin tins, no cake cases or papers required, and evenly split the batter between them. You can load them up for huge puffy muffins, or half fill them for smaller ones and eat two (or more!), it’s up to you. I actually used shallow, wide Yorkshire pudding tins for these, and made enormous, floaty-light ones, which I can highly recommend!