This is a very simple and quick recipe. It’s a good way of using up some of the more elderly cheese you may find lurking in your fridge.

Serve with a hollandaise, or a tartare sauce.

This goes well with a two pea and pumpkin seed salad. Or with a pea purée, and roasted new potatoes.

Recipe for golden, breaded and smoked haddock

Serves 4

Ingredients

• 4 smoked haddock fillets (approximately 180g/6 oz each)
• 150g/5 oz butter (three- fifths of a brick)
• 2 tbsps Dijon mustard
• 100g/2 cups soft, fresh breadcrumbs
• 2 tbsps grated cheese – cheddar ideally
• small handful chives
• 1 lemon, cut into eight wedges
• smoked salt and Indonesian long pepper

Method

1. Preheat your oven to 180°C.
2. Mix the butter and mustard together and season.
3. In another bowl mix the breadcrumbs, cheese and most of the chives (save some for garnish).
4. Butter a baking tray (or better, use a silicone sheet – look at the featured image to see what happens – a silicone sheet will save on the washing up; or you could use foil).
5. Place the haddock fillets on the tray and spread the butter-mustard mix over them.
6. Sprinkle over the breadcrumb mix.
7. Cover loosely with foil.
8. Bake for ten minutes. Then turn the oven up to 210°C, return the fish to the oven uncovered and roast for about five minutes until the breadcrumbs have turned golden.
9. Serve with a couple of lemon wedges each, and garnished with the remaining chives.