Mini fish balls

For the jazz night, you'll have to read the Fox's blog. Suffice to say we stayed until around 10, longer than anticipated by us. By then my knees were beginning to complain. We came home, a quick cup of tea & I was in bed before 11pm. The group were okay, the singer nondescript, but the harmonica player was brilliant. Now that was a man who sure had rhythm.

All this has meant I've had the energy to prepare an old favourite for today's dinner - mini fish balls. This is a recipe I adapted from an Australian Home Journal c1950. (My mother had obviously brought several issues of the magazine with her when we finally moved back to England to stay in the mid-50s. She kept them, along with just about every copy of "Woman" magazine from then until the day she died in 1978.) The joy of this recipe is that it uses so little fish. So it is that the 3oz of haddock I had left over in the freezer, has now made 22 little fish balls, ample for the two of us, for frying up this evening. And what is more I'll guarantee they'll taste more fishy than many meals using two or three times as much fish.

All this is just as well. It's Farmers' Market day in Morecambe so we'll be off there later this morning. What is more the milk is low, so we'll have to do a supermarket shop as well. It will be reassuring to know dinner this evening will take minimal effort to complete now.