A life on the ocean waves.

Well hello my Tars!

Setting off into the morning sun

I was away doing a bit of fishing at the end of last week. 2 full days Thursday and Friday, it was on the Baltic on a converted minesweeper called "Simone".

Rods set and headinf for the fishing grounds

 The first day though good for some, wasn't so good for me. I caught 4 codling, but because they didn't meet the minimum size (38cm) I had to return 3, never mind, the one not sent back was a reasonable size.

Here are a couple of photos of the two trips, including a couple of eco friendly and a not so eco friendly means of sea travel that we met on the trips.

Friday was a different kettle of fish (pun intended) I caught 10 and just returned 3 so we had enough fish for our dinner party on Saturday.

The ever following gulls at filleting time

And a couple of young tars setting out on an old  baltic werry for an evenings messing about on the water.

Saturday evening we had friends around for a real British roast dinner

We had homemade asparagus and herb soup with a green rocket island topped with a poached quails egg.

A dozen quails eggs minus one

The minus one ready to be poached

         

The finished soup

Asparagus herb soup with a rocket island topped with a poached egg

Next was the fish and chips. Hestons thrice cooked chips, with goujons of line caught codling in a panko crust and Sole Bonne Femme with brown shrimp sauce.

Then was herb crusted roast beef, yorkies and all the trimmings,

A nice piece of well hung beef

Browning the beef

Pounding the herb crust with English mustard

The beef ready for the oven over a bed of root vegetables, stock and redwine

First into the oven at 220 degrees, reducing to 180 degrees after 20 mins until the inner temperature reached 70 degrees (to well done for my taste but we had guests)

Last but not least was a trio of summer puds.

Sorry no pics, this was Lindas section and she didn't take any.

Rhubarb and ginger crumble

Summer trifle

Home made strawberry ice cream

To quench the thirst (it was quite warm)

Plenty of wine., pic-poule, a nice crisp pink wine and a strong deep red  Burgundy

We watched last years Last Night of the Proms (the couple are going this year so we showed then a little taste of what to expect)

and so ended a very nice evening.

Sunday morning was out to Travemunde for a Birthday breakfast, it was a beautiful day until getting stuck in traffic on the way home. But all in all a very nice and enjoyable spring break.