Creamy Salmon Pasta and some special Pottery
I have a soft spot for Cornish Blue pottery. My parents travelled abroad a lot, and as a consequence, all things British had a special place in my Mother’s heart. So, I suspect some of my affection comes from her enthusiasm for the pottery, which until now I was convinced came from Cornwall. After all, it is a beautiful blue colour, just like the sea. In fact, Cornish Blue pottery was first made in Derbyshire by T.G. Green and Co in 1926. The name WAS inspired by the colours of the Cornish seas. And, the Pottery is a classic – timeless and as charming today as it must have been when it was first made.
So, I was quite thrilled to be offered a giveaway for London-Unattached readers. And a sample for myself. For you, dear readers, I have a pair of personalised mugs. The winner will be able to personalise the name or message on their mugs – a fabulous gift for father’s day – or something to remember a special occasion perhaps.
Meanwhile, I was sent two pasta bowls. And I’ve been trying them out, with a really simple recipe for creamy salmon pasta. Doesn’t it look fabulous – even MY photography works!
Creamy salmon pasta is one of those supper dishes I learnt from somewhere years and then just kept making again and again. I have no idea where I first found the recipe, but I can remember making it for my parents at least 15 years ago. It’s quite economical because one salmon fillet is plenty for two people. I’m lucky to still have some fabulous Scottish Salmon that was sent to me by DelishFish.
- 160 g Salmon Fillet
- 100 g Good Quality Penne Pasta (dry weight)
- 100 g Fresh Asparagus
- 75 ml Low Fat Creme Fraiche
- 3-4 sprigs Fresh Dill If my roof terrace supply runs out, I buy a packet from the supermarket and freeze it. You can take the frozen sprigs out and use them in this dish without defrosting.
- 1 Small Lemon Zested and juiced
- Salt and Pepper
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Season the salmon well with salt and pepper and put on a piece of foil. Add most of the lemon zest and juice. Close the foil up to make a package and bake in the oven at 170c for 10 minutes. Once cooked, remove from the oven and leave in the foil to keep warm
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Meanwhile put the pasta in a large pan of boiling salted water and cook according to the package instructions.
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Cut the asparagus into neat pieces about 2cm/1inch long, discarding any woody ends
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minutes before the pasta is cooked, add the asparagus pieces.
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Drain the mixture and return to the pan. Over a very low heat stir through the creme fraiche and remaining lemon zest. Now unwrap your salmon and flake the warm fish into the pasta. Add all the lemony sauce in too. If necessary, heat through very gently. Then stir in the dill, keep a few fronds for garnish
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Taste and adjust seasoning, then plate up, garnishing with dill
Vary it by using smoked salmon or by using different vegetables according to what is in season. It works well with frozen peas too. You can make a healthier version suitable for 5:2 fast days by doubling the amount of vegetables and halving the pasta – or ridiculously rich by substituting double cream for the crème fraiche! And, you can even eat it cold, if there’s any left! I also have a poshed-up version which uses black squid ink pasta (very dramatic and perfect for a dinner party starter) but this time I was just aiming to make something that gave me some of the flavours of Spring.
the pasta looks lovely!
Many thanks, Fiona! Thrilled to be a winner! Love Cornwall and love the Cornishware. Yippee!
going to Legoland in Denmark when I was 6
I loved taking the dogs out with my parents
Putting real tea in my toy teapot!
Making animal face masks out of paper plates & colouring pens in the garden on a sunny day with friends. 🙂
i lived abroad as a child so my fave thing was coming to visit granny here and getting peanut sweets from the market
Skegness xxx
Running across the sandbanks with my siblings on holiday in cornwall
Feeding the ducks with my grandad at the lake near his house
Playing on the haybales all summer long with my friends — much to the farmers’ annoyance!
Playing in the loft with Barbies
picking flowers in my nanna’s garden when I was about 2
Family holiday in scarborough 🙂
eurocamp holidays in france 🙂
Worst sunburn of my life. In Wales!
my mum and dad bundling me and my sister into the back of an old estate car and we would sleep while they drove overnight down to Cornwall for family holidays
Christmas eve with Mum, my sister and Nan…watching Santa Claus the movie and getting excited. Always makes me smile!
Going to the beach with my Mum and Sisters.
Going on the social club trip with my mum, brother, aunts, uncles and cousins, it was the early 60s/70s and we used to hire a tall tent at the beach, I can clearly recall it had pockets inside and the doors tied with ties, oh and having a wee on the sand and covering it with more sand, ha ha
A day out with my gran shopping and a trip to the cinema great times
Going round my great nan and grandads house, grandad had one of those old glass sweet jars with the blue plastic stopper and each time we turned up we would have to search the house to find it and there would always be a sweet in it each for my sisters and me 🙂
My favourite childhood memories were going on caravan holidays, especially if they were by the beach. I remember absolutely loving the year we went to Ardnamuchan – There was nothing there, but the beach was great and my aunt, uncle and cousins came along too, which meant my sister and I slept in the awning with my cousins. Great holiday!
Waking up in the middle of the night and watching cartoons with my mother! 🙂
Favourite childhood memories were definitely Christmas getting together with all the family and the excitement my parents would create, good times 🙂
Going to Blackpool for a week every year with my Gran, best memories
Going on a steam train
Family holidays in France
Bonfire night – my favourite festival as a child.
Has to be family holidays in Jersey, by the sea at St Ouen with the tide in and sitting on the rocks being bashed by the waves!
Baking with my Nan
Has to be a family trip to Jersey Zoo, with my grandad hanging from the bars like one of the monkeys
Camping in Devon with my parents and sister – so simple but so much fun!
Going to the beach at barmouth when i was little in the eighties! There used to be a washed up boat in the dunes at Barmouth beach that all of the kids used to play on and play pretend games…..wnet there a couple of years ago and it no longer seems to be there, which suprisingly made me feel a little sad and empty! 🙁
Going to disneyland with my family
The camping holidays we had.
Holidays in cyprus with my Mum and Dad and twin sister every year
the smell of an american style sweet and iceream shop i used to visit when i was 7 years old
Playing Chess with my Grand Dad
knitting with roller firmly in our heads, drinking hot chocolate with my nan
Playing in sandhills.
Making tents out of sheets and deckchairs in the endless summer holidays (which were actually summery)
Dancing on a Sunday morning, at arond 3 years old with my dad.
I love pretty things
sitting in dads side car going for long rides in the country
family holidays in france
Caravan holidays at the beach in Fife! 😀
Cooking with my dad who would always let me lick the spoon when we finished making puddings!
Spending all day out in the woods and fields with my brother and sister and all our friends – fun times!
playing hide and seek
Going sailing ’round the Isle of Wight with my dad. 🙂
PICNICS ON THE BEACH WITH SEASIDE SANDWICHES ,WITH SAND .
Mum and Dad taking us out of school one day to go to the cinema and see Star Wars – the original and the best.
being on holiday in Newquay with my parents and my brother on a lovely hot summers day.
playing football with my dad and brothers and sisters everynight over the field
Taking day trips to Cleethorpes on a Sunday and sitting on the seafront in the pouring rain having fish and chips
Christmas morning with all the family. Opening presents and eating a fantastic never tastes better full English.
picking wild raspberries in the scorching summer sun – happy childhood days 🙂
Trying to ride my new bike
Fruit picking in Hereford and then watching in wonder as my mum made jam
Walking along the beach at Perranporth with my grandparents.
Climbing a mountain with my dad
Days at the seaside with a picnic
seaside holidays in the uk
My favorite childhood memory is going on long drives with my mum and dad, my mum would make me up a goodie bag with treats in and we would listen to roald dahl books, we would be driving on our holidays, which I loved, BUT its the drive there that I remember so fondly. xx
Going to stay in my great aunt’s holiday flat in Spain.
Receiving a Mickey Mouse backpack for my birthday…I had been after it for so long!
Fishing with my grandad 🙂
playing with my sister and all the games we used to make up
Hello 🙂
What a lovely recipe and I didn’t know this pottery wasn’t actually from Cornwall either!
Would love to win, what a lovely idea for Father’s Day!
Emma x (@beachpebble)
Doh! Would have helped if I’d actually answered the question!
My fave memory has to be of my grandad who is no longer with us x
Going on caravan holidays with Mum and Dad. Hearing the gas lamps and feeling all safe, warm and so happy.
Watching my mum get ready for a night out, smelling the perfume, watching the up do go up etc
Santa coming into the classroom when I was 5, with his sack of presents, wow I was so excited.
Eating my granddads home grown tomatoes
Bizarrely it was being in hospital at the age of 5. I was on an adult ward and everyone made a big fuss of me.
Favourite memories would involve holidays at the seaside with family.
trolls!
my dad rip
i want a mug
Building sandcastles on the beach and then watching them being washed away by the sea
Going for walks with my dad and dog in the woods collecting conkers!
Egg & tomato sandwiches eaten huddled behind the windbreaker in the dunes on Lossiemouth beach.
Being carried through a muddy pumpkin patch by my father because my little legs kept sinking in too far!
Crab fishing with my Dad off the pier in Aberdovery, Wales. I used to look forward to Summer just for that alone!
Rock pooling in Cornwall 🙂
Eating twirly ice-cream in a cone and trying to stop my hair being blown into it
going off in the car every Sunday in the summer for a family picnic – either to the seaside or the woods.
my favourite childhood memories are of magical Christmas times.
summer holidays on the beach with buckets, spades and rockpools
Caravaning with my family in Castlerock. Best place in the world for me, by far. Great memories. x
Pretending to be a white tiger crawling around with my cousins
carefree days in the fields playing till you got hungry and went home!
Easter breakfast with the table all laid out in Cornish Blue with the eggs in Cornish Blue egg cups – most sadly chipped, lost or broken now.
Eating Goosegogs (gooseberries) from the bush at the bottom of the garden with my gran
waiting for my grandad to come home and ride in his car down the drive to the garage
I’m an American, I found your blog while searching for recipes for 5-2 Diet. You have great recipes btw… and I had to read all the comments about favorite memories. I just love how everyone uses the words holiday, mum, nan, brilliant…or we went to Devon or Cornwall or for tea!!! I love it!!!! It’s so romantic!
Your blog is a nice reminder of where my ancestors came from!
you know I’m loving the comments too! it makes me feel all reminiscent…
when my mum gave me a kitten for christmas 🙂
Cooking with my mum
Rockpooling with my brother and cousins 🙂
Going on holiday with my parents
The first time they took me to Disneyland… followed by a trip to Toys’R’Us… unforgettable!
Holidays in Wales with my family
Going shopping with my Grandma and trying EVERYTHING on in the store!:-))
Climbing apple trees in the garden and eating black berries straight off the bush.
Getting disney video for easter instead of chocolate! Best Easter ever!
I always loved Easter, probably more than Christmas. There’s was always lots of egg hunts and picnics and I remember the weather always seemed to be beautiful (although it probably wasn’t!).
My nan turning up as a surprise one afternoon in the summer holidays. I can still remember feeling so happy that she was stood at the front door. Love my nan x
Staying over at my nan and grandad’s and helping my nan cook the dinner and going to the shops on the bus.
seeing my grandad down in devon, going the beach there with my family and swimming in the salty sea followed by ice cream and a drive back through the lovely countryside
My favourite memories are of spending time with my big sister, especially going horse back riding for the first time.
Spending all day on the beach with my family in Cornwall and being bought a dinghy to share with my sister. Brilliant fun!
Going camping with my parents!
On holiday in Zante, my dad drunk on rusty nails and staggering along the road to the hotel singing, was so funny.
Going on holiday with my family
When my sister was born x
holidays in blackpool, going to the pleasure beach!!
Going on a family holiday in cornwall in 1977, staying in a lovely guesthouse and watching the queens jubilee on a colour television !!!!!!
Staying with my Granny and Grampy in the Summer shelling Peas and Broad Beans
Playing in muddy puddles
Our annual family visit to the beach during summer
Sitting on the front lawn waiting for my brother to come home from school
playing football after school
Spending summer days with my nan, her house back on to a big field with a brook and cornfields on the other side. We spent hours running around there.
CAMPING ON THE NORTH NORFOLK COAST WITH THE RAIN POURING DOWN BUT WE WERE DRY IN THE PINE FOREST!
Playing on the beach in the rain :0)
Delicious pasta, I posted a similar recipe myself before Christmas with John’s fabulous hot roast salmon!
My memory is……
Fish and chips in the back of an old Morris Minor with the smell of leather seats and malt vinegar…..then hoke to bed with a drink of hot milk and a bedtime story!
going camping with my parents and grandparents
My first childhood memory is sitting on my grandads bed with my little brother
skating on a very cold day, and eating the chocolate truffles that got rock hard in the cold in my pocket…
Making bows and arrows with my dad from birch tiwgs and string
Going to Spain with my family
Days out at St Andrews beach
Anything involving my dad who tragically passed away 2 years ago at the age of 50.
going to the beach with all the family and having a lot of ice cream and good old brighton doughnuts!
Summer holiday tris to Cornwall, loved going to the beach and eating sandy sandwiches 🙂 I now live in Cornwall as I loved it that much as a child
Throwing a tantrum because i didn’t want to go on the dirty old steam train but on a nice new diesel train!
spending summer holidays at my aunts house and playing with my cousins 🙂
Scottish island holidays each year as a child, spening plenty of time outdoors with lots of friends. Still continue doing this with my own children now.
MY DAD DIGGING A BOAT OUT OF SAND WHILE WE WERE ON HOLIDAY AT LITTLESTONES ON THE KENT COAST. HE WORE THE MOST AWFUL SHORTS BUT HE WAS A WONDERFUL DAD.
Our farm holiday in Devon. The thing that sticks out most in my mind is people talking about JR getting shot!
Going to the local seaside with my dad and sisters to pick cockles and winkles.
eating our sandwiches in the layby on the way to our holiday camps
Holidaying in cornwall
being able to go where we liked as long as we were home for meals
on my swing trying to get as high as i could
everytime we went for an outing my mum always managing to get us lost
School holidays spent at the Natural History, Science and V & A museums…..
Summer holidays spent at the Natural History, Science and V & A museums………
Getting my Raleigh Chopper bike – I was so Marlon Brando
sunday church with friends
Searching rockpools on holiday and building huge sandcastles
Roast chicken dinner on a Sunday. We didn’t get it every Sunday, so it was a real treat when we had it.
Sleeping at my Grandmas on a Friday night.
sounds so yummy… ideal day..either making something interesting (today I roasted purple fingerlings along with golden ones plus red beets).. haven’t figured out what I am cooking but ..got to do something with it.
Out all day in the woods and riding my bike
My favourite childhood memory was going to Blackpool Pleasure beach with my day as a birthday treat.
My favourite childhood memory was going on holiday to Tunisia and riding on a camel!
Spending all summer holidays in the back garden with my brothers and mum, camping some nights then my dad coming home and setting up the barbecue!
Going to Scotland to see all my dads family!
Has to be Sunday dinners at my aunt Margarets. Was such a fun, happy family time. I wish I could get them back! xoxo
walking home from school and going to my grans first always before going home just so i could have a ginger biscuit or two and watch countdown with her and my cat twinkle (who despite being my cat at some point had decided to move in with granny lol) and then she would give me a 50p to get some sweets from the sweetie shop next to my house!!
Going on holiday with my parents and brothers.
Being allowed to help my dad in his workshop,making and repairing all sorts of things.
making cakes with my mum and younger brother then licking the bowl out
strawberry picking with my mum then watching her make jam
Running in fields
On holiday at my grandmother’s house in Edinburgh and taking the tram to Princes St for afternoon tea at Jenners, then we went to M&S where she bought chocolate ginger biscuits.
ohhh I remember Jenners too!
a holiday in the Isle Of white, going round filing a glass lighthouse with different coloured sands, such simple times.
I’m glad I asked this question I’m getting lovely answers!
Swimming in the river
A holiday in Devon with my mum, dad, brother, our dogs and my nan and grandad, it was wonderful times
Going to Spain with my parents – I pretended that I was fluent in Spanish to my friends on my return and they believed me (I couldn’t say a word!)
lmao! well, I’m guessing they couldn’t either?
Holidaying in a caravan with my parents and 3 brothers fab x
Cottage holidays on the Isle of Arran! We went every year for Whit Week so my dad could fish in the annual comp! I loved it there – played outdoors from dusk till dawn – building dens, playing on the beach etc!
Baking with my Nan x
Being at the caravan on hols with my parents, they were the happiest times with them!
i use love my family holiday’s in porthcawl and the first time i saw jaw’s in porthcawl
lmao, I remember seeing jaws for the first time and SCREAMING!