How To: Fish Gratin

This recipe is packed with flavor and textures, it’s easy to make and hard to resist.

You will need:
1tbsp Olive Oil
40g Butter
150g Fresh White Breadcrumbs
Pinch Of Salt & Pepper
2 Shallots, Finely Chopped
1 Bay Leaf
Handful Of Fresh Parsley
170g Frozen Peas
200g Mushrooms, Sliced Thickly
100g Creme Fraiche
150ml Fish Stock
500g Cod Fish Or White Fish Chopped Up
250g King Prawns, Peeled

Preparing your food:

• Heat the oil in an ovenproof saucepan and fry the shallots, stirring occasionally until softened. Add in the fish stock, mushrooms, bay leaf and stir occasionally.
• Stir in the creme fraiche and add the white fish/cod. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Bring to the boil and cover, allowing it to simmer for 5 minutes.
• Remove the bay leaf then add the prawns and peas and simmer for another 5 minutes.
• Meanwhile, preheat your grill and melt the butter and mix it with the breadcrumbs. Spoon and spread the breadcrumb mixture evenly over the top of the fish mixture.
• Place the saucepan under the grill and allow to toast for around 3-4 minutes until the topping is brown.
• Serve to plates and enjoy. You may add some fresh parsley to garnish the dish too!

Bon Appetit 🙂

Life with back pain: GoPo review week 7 and 8

I know I said I’d be writing in the next 2 weeks around a month ago but I thought I’d update you guys in greater intervals.

I’ve been walking around a lot these past few weeks, as I’m away and I use my health app on my iPhone which estimates how many steps I take a day, rounding it up to the kilometre and the floors you’ve climbed. I really like taking a look at it every night before I sleep so I can see my progress everyday, it also shows you a tally chart of your week, month and year as well as your day. All this walking around has made me have a very mild ache in my knee and it feels like I need to click it every once in a while for relief.

However I believe without taking my GoPo tablets everyday, my knee would probably be worse as it is a new ache. As for my back, I can actually say, I haven’t thought of my back pain for a whole month, not a single twinge of pain at all. Now that could be from all of my walking or my GoPo tablets are actually working?

It could be a mixture of both but I believe it’s definitely more of the GoPo soothing my aches and I hope in the following weeks my knee will stop aching too. I used to carry my tablets in the tub in my handbag and they do rattle slightly in my bag and I do get the odd look or two as I rattle around the streets, but I wasn’t really bothered. Now I put 4 tablets in a ziplock bag everyday, I take 2 after my breakfast and 2 in the evening after my dinner. It is recommended to take 3 capsules twice daily for the first 3-5 weeks. After that you should take 2 capsules twice daily and keep them stored at room temperature, away from direct sunlight. If you have trouble swallowing tablets whole you may split the tablet and sprinkle it over your food.

Please tune in, in the next 4 weeks for my last and final update where I will include images of the capsules and the packaging. If you’d like to see my previous post, please click here.

If you are interested in GoPo, please take a look here http://www.gopo.co.uk

Disclosure: I was sent a 12 week trial of GOPO for the purposes of review. All opinions are entirely my own.