Steamed Fish, Courgette Salad & Bagna Cauda | Book of Elsa

A simple weeknight supper: go on, you know you want to...

Spread some butter on aluminium foil.

Put fish on top of butter 'base'

Add more butter, salt and pepper on  top of the fish; I'm using basa fillet but obviously you can use any fish you desire. 

Wrap a tightly sealed package, then bake in a very hot oven for 15 minutes.

Courgette salad ingredients: salt, lemon juice and finely sliced courgettes

Bagna Cauda ingredients: anchovies, butter, garlic and rapeseed oil (or you can use olive oil)

Grate the garlic and finely mince the anchovies and put into the cold oil

On medium heat whisk in the butter one cube at a time

serve the sauce with some steamed potatoes, salad and the steamed fish. 

Orange Scented French Toast | Book of Elsa

To anyone familiar with my Instagram these are no surprise: I adore french toast. Most of the time I can only make them on saturdays when I have time to let the custard soak into the bread  and cook in butter low and slow, like. I'm salivating just thinking about it. This orange scented version is extra special and I hope you try it. However, the orange flavoured syrup showed on the picture above is not very good and I would not even think of giving you the recipe until it's perfect so I'd suggest you have greek yoghurt with.