Julie cashed in her Xmas present, a voucher for Nick Nairn's cookery school in Aberdeen. Went to a class on cooking lemon sole with a nutty butter sauce, beans and crushed potatoes..... and the odd glass of Shiraz!
"What a fab way to spend jury duty, wasn't required on the Friday so booked myself onto a two hour late lunch course. We were shown how to skin and fillet flat fish and prepare a lemon sole for cooking on the bone. It was so interesting and Simon our Chef made it all look so easy. When I asked where in Aberdeen you could buy good fish a voice behind me chipped in how awful it was that there were no good fishmongers, that voice was Nick Nairn himself. I am pleased to say he has matured since his heady days of first fame and is definitely not that arrogant so and so I met at the Good Food Show some 20 years ago! As there were only 5 of us on the course I was working on my own so Simon would come over for a gossip and use my fish as the example. So far this is my third course, the next one I'm hoping to do is a classic Indian course but since the date for that one is the same as Isobe'ls hockey match against Watson's from Edinburgh, I will have to wait for the next one!"
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