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Fish Pi

A slight tweak on how Mother Dennison used to make it, to reflect lower skills with pastry… Yes, pastry; fish pie with mashed potato on top is also delicious but, round our way, that’s called Trawler Pie. Ingredients Two fillets unsmoked white fish  Two fillets smoked white fish  A big handful of frozen prawns 1 litre milk ~75g butter Two dessert spoons of plain flour Two Bay leaves Some Tarragon Garlic puree Double handful of frozen peas 2 pucks frozen spinach Roll of puff pastry Method Poach the fish fillets in the milk, with the bay leaves, tarragon, garlic puree and a hefty crack of salt and pepper. Basically any fish will work but make sure there’s some smoked fish in there as it adds the best flavour. After about 8 minutes, when the fish is flaky, turn off the heat and add the prawns and peas to help cool it...