Flashy Fish Stew …

Posted by Kenny on 24 October 2015

…Saffron Sauce & Garlic Bread

It ended not with a bang but a whimper…

It’s done. It took one year and four months, which included two house moves. I cooked 115 meals and made four smoothies. I cooked for 236 people. I did about 50% of them in under 15 minutes and 76% in under 16 minutes.

I finished this project in March 2014, but for reasons I can’t explain I’m only writing the last post now, in October 2015, more than 18 months later.

It started over a weekend at the beginning of October 2012 where my brother, Gordy, and my friend, and then housemate, Gavin made me a website. I wrote some words and started to cook that weekend. The result was this project and these meals.

With all the time between cooking this and writing about it I can’t really remember much. But here are a few things I can remember:

This was a meal I’d wanted to cook from the start. It was a meal I tried to cook many times, but failed to get the right fish. It was a risky one to leave till the end, but I did, and it is an exciting one to finish on. Beautiful fish. And some saffron … appropriate for a celebration.

I cooked this meal for my family as a pre-Oscars dinner; just before staying up all night. I’d cooked one of these meals on Oscars night the year before, but this was the night that 12 Years a Slave deservedly won Best Picture (although more than a small part of me wanted Her to win).

That’s it. That’s all I can remember. It must have gone quite well though as it was good time.

Who With: Gordy, Selina, Matt, Mum, Peter.

How Long: Fourteen minutes and fifty six seconds