Snags wrote:I would go for a fish pie type taste in pastry
White sauce, salmon, mash or potatoes cubed,peas,carrot maybe some leeks cooked in butter,lots of pepper maybe a bayleaf
I often do something like this with smoked fish. Let's say Cod.
First, I poach the fish in milk, and save the stock left from poaching to cook the diced potatoes, then the carrots then the sweet potato in. Then make the white sauce with this stock - which has curdled milk by now, but it still works fine in the sauce with more milk. Other things that go well in this mix are peas, asparagus, spinach and chopped boiled eggs. If I don't have leeks (which we love) to sweat off in the butter, lots of onions will do.
I often use a mixture of smoked fish and fresh fish, hopefully one of them being salmon and the other a meaty white-fleshed fish.
A winter favourite.