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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?

Father’s Day: If your dad was a superhero which hero would he be?

May 31, 2013 by Andrew Leave a Comment

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If you father was a superhero which superhero would he be?

This was the question that Fragrance Direct put to a bunch of British kids in time for Father’s Day.

The official press release notes how Superman was the winning hero, earning 26% of the responses. Next most popular was Batman as 6% of the Brits in the survey said the Dark Knight was a good match for their dad.

I liked some of the more imaginative responses from the cheeky kids. There was;

Dangermouse, he looks quite rodent like and eats a lot of cheese

and

Spiderman – because he drives people up walls

plus

Supergrump!

Let’s not forget;

Lex Luther….my dad isn’t worth casting as a Superhero !

Fragrance Direct has next day delivery in the UK, a free gift on orders more than £20 and will likely be among the online retailers who see some brisk action in the run up to Father’s Day.

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If your father was a superhero then which superhero would he be?

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