Here is the fish dish - almost! ;)

Sorry I haven't written for ages. I kind of forgot I was doing this. But some more sumptuous recipes on the way. These tip their hat at some Jamie Oliver and Nigel Slater ideas which I took their encouragement to bend and change along the way. (BTW you can do this with Coley and other meaty white fishies that are more sustainable too)

Cod Fillet With Chorizo and The Goodest Flavours

Serves 4

4 Cod Fillets skinned and boned. (if you get skins left on the cook skin side down but it will make the dish look proper ugly)
Chorizo sausage chopped or sliced into pound coins(but you can sub this for anchovies for a full fish version, or handful of capers for a proper salty kick, or both)
Punnet of good cherry tomatoes
Basil (lots)
Parmesan cheese grated, couple of handfuls
2 balls of Buffalo Mozzarella
Salt, pepper and olive oil

To serve with:
Cannellini or Haricot Beans 2 tins
1 medium onion
1 clove garlic
1/2 cup of chicken or fish stock
1/2 glass white wine
fresh thyme
salt, pepper

What to do:

First, turn the over on to 220/450 (hot yeah!)

Now in a roasting dish, drizzle a little olive oil and lay the fish down. Then on top a little more oil and scatter the halved tomatoes, ripped basil, sliced mozzarella, chopped chorizo (or anchovies/capers), parmesan and salt/pepper all over in a kind of nice, neat arrangement.

Now cook it for 15-20 mins until you can't take the smell any more and have to eat. THAT IS IT!!! How easy is that????

While this is cooking, chop the onion small and the garlic and fry them in a smallish but deep pan in a little oil. Add a little salt to stop them burning but colour a little. After 3-4 mins, add the 2 tins of washed, drained beans and the wine, stock thyme (chopped if you can be bothered but definitely off the stalks), and salt and pepper. Simmer and stir for 10 mins and it is done!!! How easy was that too???

Now take your potato masher and mash up the beans into the juices and onions etc. You want to get a cloying but moist mash of stuff that looks a bit like a cloud that has just walked out of McDonald's.

Serve two largish spoons of the beans on each plate, lay the cod carefully on top so it doesn't break and arrange the tomatoes, chorizo, cheeses, basil and juices of the fish dish around and over.

In the words of Gordon Ramsey and the old man in the Boatman in Bermondsey watching Millwall score, "Fucking tasty!!"