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Our simplest recipe yet!

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Today, we wanted to share with you our simplest recipe yet…..

Ingredients

  • Some Fish Fanatics fish
  • Some Fish Fanatics sauce

Method

  • Cook fish
  • Add sauce

    • Sorted!

It couldn’t be easier. And it couldn’t be more tasty. We have eight different varieties:

Our scrumptious sauce range

Our scrumptious sauce range

  • Pineapple & Red Chili Sauce A mouth-watering taste of fruity ripe pineapples, count to 5 and the chili kicks in! They are great with Fish Cakes and Tiger Prawns.
  • Coconut, Lime & Ginger Sauce The sweetness of the coconut, tamed with lime and the contrast of ginger can create a Thai style dish in minutes.
  • Wasabi & Green Pepper Sauce A fresh, clean, crisp taste, without the heat, followed by the sweetness of green peppers. Try with fish such as cod, monkfish and salmon. Great mixed with mayonnaise or crème fraiche in a dip.
  • New York Style Sauce Full flavoured and great with Tuna and Swordfish. We also like with fresh grilled sardines on the BBQ.
  • Roasted Red Pepper Sauce A rounded pepper taste with a hint of chives. Great poured over pasta with white fish.
  • Lemon & Dill Sauce Sharp and tangy – A natural with most fish, particularly white fish, prawns and salmon. Also great with chicken.
  • Cajun Mango Sauce Slightly spicy and great with white fish. Wonderful as a dip with creme fraiche or yoghurt.
  • Sweet Chili Sauce Try for dipping prawns, with a tuna steak or even as an alternative to tomato sauce with fish and chips!

All the savoury sauces are gluten free, dairy free and suitable for vegans and vegetarians with the exception of the New York style sauce which contains anchovies.

Visit our online shop to see our range of fish and sauces. And let us know what you think!

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Things you might not know about…..Scallops!

Friday, May 14th, 2010

One of our special offers in May is on our succulent King Scallops.

King Scallops special offer

King Scallops special offer

Scallops are a popular type of shellfish in both Eastern and Western cooking and are characterized by having two types of meat in one shell…

The adductor muscle, called “scallop” which is white and meaty, and the roe, called “coral”, which is red or white and soft.

Both parts are edible and in Europe they are eaten in their entirety like oysters. In the U.S. however, when a scallop is prepared, usually only the white part - the adductor muscle - is used, while the other parts of the scallop are discarded.

Scallops are commonly sautéed in butter, or else breaded and deep fried. Their flavour is sweet and delicate and so best served with something that will not overpower their subtle flavour. They go really well with light semi-dry white wines.

Simply pan fry them in butter, or try one of our recipes:

Barbequed Scallops Wrapped in Bacon and Sage
Devilled Scallops
Pan Fried King Scallops with Tarragon
Pan Fried Scallops and Prawns with Mango Dipping Sauce
Scallop Chowder

Our current stock comes from Cornish day boats and the quality is by far the very best available on the market.

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See how tasty our fish is for yourselves…

Monday, May 10th, 2010
Ashlie doing a tasty cooking demo

Ashlie doing a tasty cooking demo

We think our fish is the best you can buy in terms of taste, freshness and general fabness! But I suppose we would say that wouldn’t we??

So don’t just take our word for it, come and join us at one of our tasting days up and down the country.

You can find us with samples of our wares at any of the following shops….

Blacker Hall Farm, Wakefield - Friday 25th June
Cheshire Smokehouse, Wilmslow - Fri 2nd July
Beckworth Emporium, Milton Keynes - 19th & 20th July
The Hollies- Stratton & Tarpoley - date tbc
White Post Farm, Nottingham - June/July date tbc
Ingfield Farm Shop, Halifax - Summer BBQ Event, date tbc
Ludlow Food Centre - date tbc

And we are adding to this list all the time.

Our tastings are usually from 10am til 1pm, but contact us for more information. Check out our farmshop directory for details of these venues.

We’d love to meet you. See you there :)

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We’ve got some great special offers for May…

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

Can you believe it’s May already? We certainly can’t! The Great British public has already started to dust off the barby ready to throw the most delicious fillets and loins on there.

We’ve put some great special offers on to help you with your spring cuisine!

King Scallops - diver caught in Cornwall

King Scallops - diver caught in Cornwall

Don’t forget, you get free delivery with all orders over £60, and we’re bringing new lines in all the time, so keep checking our online shop.

Remember, fish is incredibly good for you, a making it a tasty and healthy choice to make for you and your family.

Keep in touch – we always love to hear from you. And make sure you are following us on Twitter or liking us on Facebook for all the latest offers, recipes and fishy banter!

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Fish can help you lose weight!

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

It’s true. Clever scientific people have said so!

exercise-and-fish-pic

We all know that the omega-3 rich oils in fish are very good for you - we talk about this on our website , but according to an anti-obesity study carried out by the Universty of South Australia a few years ago, these fish oils, combined with exercise can help improve the efficiency of exercise for weight loss.

Basically, volunteers who were given a diet rich in fish oil showed greater weight loss as compared to those who did not consume a fish oil diet. The conclusion was that exercise combined with the fish oil had a positive effect on the body shape and body composition of the participants.

Sooooo - as the summer months are fast approaching, and we are hoping that the weather will entice us to don rather less clothes, we at Fish Fanatics recommend you eat more fish, and do more exercise! (With advice from you doctor as appropriate of course :)).

We have some great offers still on til the end of April, including free delivery on orders over £30, so get ordering now!

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We have a new Fish Fanatic!!

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Our Ashlie cooking something delicious!

Our Ashlie cooking something delicious!


We are delighted to announce our newest Fish Fanatic – Ashlie Greenwood.

She has joined us to take care of our wholesale accounts and make sure that anyone who stocks our products, or buys our products, feels loved and looked after by us.

Having studied English Language and Business Studies with a background in marketing, Ashlie’s real passion is cooking – which is why you’ll catch her doing demos in our farm shops from time to time!

One of her aims is to make it as easy as possible for everyone to get their hands on our delicious fish and she has already recruited some new farm shops.

Check back soon for the announcements!

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Fish Fanatics Exposed!

Monday, April 12th, 2010

Our MD Andrew Franks talking fish!

Our MD Andrew Franks talking fish!


…in a good way of course! Our team of fish fanatics headed down to the Food and Drink Show at the NEC in Birmingham.

We met loads of farm shops, delis and garden centres who are keen to get our delicious products in their shops - which is all very exciting.

We are already in plenty across the UK - check out our farm shop directory. And we’ll be announcing more very soon…

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Spring clean your diet …

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

salmon-steaks1Now the chocolatey indulgences of Easter are over, many people take a new look at their diets. After all - the summer holidays are just around the corner and the thought of donning the bikini or speedos can fill the bravest of hearts with fear!

The first cutback in the Spring diet is often fat. But not all fat is bad for you. To the contrary, some is very, very good for you. And vital in fact for good health.

Thankfully, there are some very tasty ways to get this healthy stuff. Oil rich fish - such as salmon, mackerel, sea bass and trout - contains Omega 3 fatty acids which is a type of polyunsaturated fat that protects the heart and circulation. This lessens the risk of heart disease by reducing blood clots and inflammation, improving blood vessel elasticity, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood fats and boosting ‘good’ cholesterol.

Omega 3 is also important in the development of the brain - in particular a baby’s brain. It is also reported that super omega 3 fatty acids can raise levels of the brain chemical serotonin and so can help to ease depression.

The list of benefits of Omega 3 go on and on. And to help you on the way, we have some great deals on our website. With free delivery on orders over £30 and organic salmon fillets now at just £4.95 (down from £7.45), there has never been a better time to start to add fish to your regular diet.

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It’s going to be a Good Friday for fish!

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

With Easter looming, we’ve been thinking about some of the traditions of this festival.

Fish is not just good for Fridays!

Fish is not just good for Fridays!

It’s not just about chocolate and fluffy bunnies you know! For instance, an old Roman Catholic tradition involves eating fish on Good Friday. This is still recognised to this day by many people of the Christian faith - and beyond.

Good Friday used to be seen as a fasting day where people were expected to go without the usual luxuries to acknowledge the sacrifice that Jesus made. As meat is seen as one such luxury, it was not allowed to be eaten and so fish was the dish of the day.

As with most traditions, this is not followed as rigorously as it used to be, but many people still do eat fish on Good Friday.

For the record, we think you should eat fish on Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday……

We have some great deals on at the moment, so whether you want to follow tradition, or just enjoy some delicious, fresh fish every day of the week, visit our online shop or browse our tasty recipes.

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