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Salmon fillet with tenderstem broccoli, roast charlotte potatoes and anchovy sauce

This is dead easy, dead healthy and dead delicious. The sauce can be made in advance if you want making the preparation even easier. It would make a really good dish for a dinner party. The sauce Ingredients 1 tbs of fresh rosemary leaves stripped from the stalk and finely chopped. 1 small tin of anchovies juice of one lemon 4tbs ex virgin live oil fresh ground pepper Method Crush the rosemary in a pestle and mortar until its well and truly mashed. Now add the anchovies and bash again until the anchovies mix with the rosemary. Then add the lemon juice and olive oil then mix together and season with pepper. put to one side. the rest Ingredients 600gms piece of salmon fillet per person 250gms tenderstem brocolli or purple sprouting per person 3 or 4 small charlotte potatoes per person Method pre heat oven to 200 degrees Put potatoes in a pan toss in a little olive oil and put in he oven for 20- 25 minutes Put a saucepan of salted water to boil put an oven proof frying pan on a medium hea

Pizzas with the X Factor

You just can't beat a really beautiful thin crust homemade pizza. The ones that arrive in a box courtesey of a kamikaze moped rider just bear no comparison to these babies. This is now one of our favourite Saturday night family meals. We eat early whilst viewing the magnificent X Factor, which is of course mandatory viewing for all five Cooks on a Saturday night. It takes a bit of preparation but is worth it. All our gang love it, everybody gets a chance to create their very own perfect pizza and it provides the perfect kind of casual eating that’s just right for telly watching. The real fun of this is getting a whole load of great ingredients and letting everybody choose. Currently the boys fave rave is courgette, with chilli and mint (sometimes with Salami), Martha’s is Margherita (tomato and mozzarella) or the same but with the addition of Salami, capers and olives, Lisa is more of an anchovy, olives and capers girl and as for me its prosciutto and rucola all the way. To make it