Delish Fish - Limited Edition Honey & Mustard Hot Smoked Salmon

The people at Delish Fish near Aberdeen are a family run business situated in the small Peterhead village really believe in our products. With the fish market right on their doorstep and a shop in Peterhead as well as one in Aberdeen, Delish Fish make sure they provide the freshest fish possible.  

Each morning they are at the market at 6am to buy the fish, fillet it, smoke it and pack it in individually labelled packs. Despite their retail options you can order on line. When they post the salmon out to the customer it arrives as fresh as when it was sent out.  

I was sent a package of Hot Smoked Salmon with different flavours.  The first one we tried was the Limited Edition Honey & Mustard Hot Smoke Salmon.  

I must admit mustard was not an ingredient I had thought to pair with smoked salmon but this was delicious! 

The fish is delivered individually wrapped and if you are not going to use it right away it is perfectly suitable for the freezer.  I took the pieces out of the freezer and left them in the fridge on a plate to defrost during the day.

The filets were so thick and flaked really easily but were not dry in any way instead soft and creamy and very, very tasty.

I served our Limited Edition Honey & Mustard Hot Smoked Salmon with new potatoes boiled with a little fresh garden mint and finished with salt & pepper and a little butter along with a portion of peas and sweetcorn kernals.

Thank you Delish Fish for the opportunity to try this wonderfully fresh and tasty fish.  I look forward to eating the other packs soon.

I was sent a selection of Hot Smoked Salmon and was not required to write a positive review.  As usual all photos and opinions are my own.

I Challenge - Myself (with help from Chia Bia)

I am not sporty, I don't really diet but I do care about my health (just sometimes a bit lazy there!).

At the recent Speciality Fine Food Fair I met the lovely people from Chia Bia in Ireland. Their product is a seed called Chia that claims to have multiple health benefits. They gave me some seed samples and some chocolate seed snack bars which I really enjoyed - they tasted lovely and they were doing me some good. Win-Win!

Sitting at my desk and laptop last week I wondered what would happen if I took some chia seeds for a period of time such as three months? I approached Chia Bia and they really liked my idea.  I also decided that most mornings I would take my seeds in greek yoghurt so I contacted Total Greek Yoghurt and they were more than happy to take part in my challenge.

I plan to take approximately 2 dessertspoonfulls of seeds each morning (this is the minimum recommended for the best effect).  I will also be using the seeds in some cakes, smoothies and other foods.  I want to get my blood pressure read in the next week or so and see if there is any difference in a couple of months too.

I will be blogging once a week or so to act as a journal and will be tweeting on a regular basis too.

Now to answer your question - What is chia seed and why is is so good for you?  Basically it is a natural way to boost your nutrition and improve your health, it is high in Omega3, loaded with antioxidents, a good natural scource of protien, lots of trace minerals like zinc and magnesium, a source of low fat vegetable fibre and really so much more.  I am hoping to get more energy from this exercise.

I thought I would give you a fact or two each time I update this post. So be sure to keep coming back.

So where am I with the challenge. Today, 22nd October 2012, is day two.  Yesterday I made some porridge oats (I tried Flahavan's Irish course cut oatmeal) - so easy in the microwave in a couple of minutes and really creamy.

Getting ready to make porridge

and today (day 2) I made a fruit smoothie with Total Greek Yoghurt and added my daily amount of chia seeds. 


Ingredients for my fruit smoothie

It is very much like adding poppy seeds to food.  You can only slightly taste them or feel the texture because they are so small.

Please follow my blog so you don't miss my Chia Bia updates and information.  I hope you will see the potential as I did and want to try it for yourselves. Please let me know what you think.  Cheers.