Return of the Rainbows!

It's been a while since we've been fishing and caught Rainbow Trout. There have been plenty of Brown Trout around, but the Rainbows have been somewhat elusive. It's not just us - everyone's been commenting... and of course the Brown Trout don't taste half as good as the Rainbows.

Anyway, we went out fishing a few days ago now that the lake has finally flattened off enough for us to get the boat out. For the first few hours it was looking like another fruitless effort, but right on dark we hooked up three fish in ten minutes - one of each, a Brown, a Rainbow and a Quinnat Salmon. The Rainbow was quickly dispatched and thrown into the chilly bin to be taken home! The others were released to fight another day.

Burton was delighted at our catch. Fresh water fish is one of his most favourite things (but not saltwater fish), alongside ham (but not heated or cooked), lamb (medium rare, he'll take the fatty bits we don't want thanks) and steak (eye fillet only, rare). He started going nuts as soon as we parked the boat back on the grass - he must have smelt the fish on our clothes. He spent the next 10 minutes sitting up perfectly straight next to the kitchen, you could almost hear him saying "See, I'm being awfully good!"

We've been searching for a nice way to cook trout that doesn't involve 2 different types of cream and cold cubed butter (although the tarragon cream sauce is nice, it's definitely a "sometimes food"!) and Andrea stumbled across a recipe for salmon fish cakes using mashed potato that she thought might adapt well to smoked trout. Sure enough, it was delicious and we're pleased to have a new recipe that's so easy! And we've got more fish cakes in the freezer for another easy meal.