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Healthy food for your little superheroes

February 23, 2016 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Looking for a way to encourage your family to eat healthy food? There’s plenty of superhero action on the cinema screen, TV and Netflix these days so perhaps these superheroes could help out?

Fish is the Dish, a site from the Sea Fish Industry Authority, is here to help. They’ve put together some superhero sea food recipes. Here’s a few of their ideas.

Gotham City fish finger skyline

Gotham skyline

Prep time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes

Serves 4

Ingredients:

400g skinless sustainable white fish, sliced into 12 strips
1 egg, beaten
85g white breadcrumbs, made from day-old or toasted bread
2 tsp olive oil
1 sheet of nori (seaweed), found in the sushi section of the supermarket
Salt and pepper to season

Method

1.       Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Crack the egg into a shallow dish and beat.

2.       Tip the breadcrumbs onto a plate and mix in some salt and pepper.

3.       Cut fish into 12 strips of different lengths and widths. The more unique the sizes and shapes, the more like a skyline your fish fingers will look.

4.       Brush a non-stick baking sheet with oil.

5.       Dip the fish strips into the egg, then roll them in the breadcrumbs. Transfer to the baking sheet.

6.       Bake for 20 minutes until golden.

7.       If you want to get really creative, whilst fish fingers are baking, cut small squares out of the nori using scissors. Place the squares onto the fish fingers once out of the oven to look like windows.

Superman stuffed red pepper cape

supes-cape

Prep time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes

Serves 4

Ingredients:

2 red peppers
2 cups of cous cous (1/2 cup per person)
1 small onion, diced
1 yellow pepper, diced
½ red chilli, deseeded and diced
2 cloves garlic, crushed
2 fillets of smoked haddock
1 vegetable stock cube
2 tsp olive oil
2 tbsp butter

Method

1.       Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Slice the red peppers into halves lengthwise (from stock to base). Remove the stock, insides and all seeds, lay on a baking tray and place in middle of the oven for 20 minutes. If you want to be extra creative, cut some ‘S’ shapes out of an additional red pepper and place them in the oven.

2.       Heat the oil in a large non-stick pan. Add the finely diced red chilli and garlic. Simmer for 1 minute. Add the yellow pepper and onion. Leave to simmer until soft – this should take around 5-7 minutes.

3.       Boil the kettle and dissolve the vegetable stock cube in one cup of boiling water. Pour the cous cous into a large bowl, pour the stock over and cover the bowl to keep the heat in.

4.       Remove the vegetables from the pan and add the butter. Once the butter is melted, add the smoked haddock and cook for 2 minutes on each side. Remove from the heat.

5.       Flake the haddock into the cous cous. Add the vegetables and stir.

6.       Remove the peppers from the oven. They should now be softened. Spoon the mixture into the peppers, filling them to the top.

7.       Serve – with the superman ‘S’ on top of the cous cous.

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Which techniques and tactics do you recommend to help encourage young ones to eat wisely?

Watch in awe as piranhas feed in a frenzy

January 16, 2016 by Andrew Leave a Comment

This footage was shot in Brazil. You can see the locals throwing dirty slabs of meat in between those fragile looking boats. The result? Chaos!

With each throw the feeding piranhas get more and more violent. You can see entire fish leaving the water as they flip back and forth in a frenzy while latched on to the meat.

The dangers of piranhas are often over stated but they are dangerous. Anyone can see that getting on to these fishing boats would be a high risk gambit while the shoal was in.

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What stories have you heard about piranhas that you believe to be true?

Catching a monster lake trout on clear ice

December 20, 2014 by Andrew Leave a Comment

These ice fishermen enter a state of near hysteria as a monster of a lake trout gets caught at Lake Superior. The fishermen are in a tent and balanced on crystal clear ice. Their fishing line is through a hole they’ve drilled. The result is that you can see the mighty fish as it swims below them and wrestles against the line.

Worried about the fish? They let it go.

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Are you a fisher? Would you spend your time out on the ice and get this excited about a catch?

In the UK high street retailer Argos sells fishing rods at low prices. Where else would you recommend as a good place to go to buy equipment for the hobby?

Fish creates “crop cricles”

May 14, 2014 by Andrew Leave a Comment

This remarkable little puffer fish is responsible for underwater patterns. I think they look awfully like crop circles.

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Have you ever seen anything like it? Share the YouTube link to an equally weird fish in the comments below.

The singing pet shop

October 31, 2012 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Once and a while an advert it worth a watch. This ad for Trident Fresh chewing gum is one of those. It features the sort of pet shop that might well be magical. The animals in this mysterious shop are certainly special. Perhaps this is the sort of mystical portal you can find by exploring the lesser used allies of any big city?

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singing-fish-2
singing-fish-3

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What do you think? Any good as an advert or just a fun distraction?

The mystery of the flying ray

January 16, 2012 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Most people know the ray – the slightly strange looking and flat fish. The stingray may be the most famous type but there are others; panrays, thornbacks, eagle rays and even butterfly rays.

This video shows a type of devil ray – part of the eagle ray or mobula genus. These particular devil rays try to fly and we’re not entirely sure why this is the case.

This video, narrated by Doctor Who’s David Tennant, shows a teaser on these flying devil rays as part of a promotion the BBC’s Earthflight program.

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What did you make of the video?

What’s the strangest animal behaviour that you know about? Why not post a link to YouTube?

Sea serpent sends locals running

April 11, 2011 by Andrew Leave a Comment

It’s not usual to see Ribbonfish washed up on shore because they’re a deep water fish. When one was captured off teh coast of north west Taiwan and taken ashore, it sent locals running for higher ground. As Xie Lu, a fisherman on the scene explained to journalists;

“People started packing up to leave. They thought some kind of terrible earthquake was coming and they began to flee.”

Sound silly? Turns out that the locals were right to be concerned. Experts do believe the fish left its natural habitat because of the recent earthquakes in the area. Wikipedia notes that the fish is sometimes known as the Earthquake fish because they appear after an earthquake.

In other words, fear of a Tsunami was not entirely misplaced at all. A good example of ancient wisdom still being meaningful today.

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What do you make of that 12 foot fish? How many “sea serpent” sightings do you think Ribbonfish like this one might be responsible for over the years?

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