Cooking primal - Kahawai fish

As part of my new determination to post more I wanted to get back to writing about other interests a bit more again.

Here is a case in point since my return to eating organic, grass fed, free range meat I have been buying a lot of fish. One of the many reasons for this is that fish is extremely healthy and canbe very cheap. I have had to learn how to clean and gut fish because whole fish are the cheapest. The cheapest is usually mackeral which seems to be a fish nobody wants and I can get these NZ$1.50 each and I've had some whoppers. My latest is the one featured in the photos below. It is a Kahawai NZ$5.50 freshly caught and it is in the oven baking stuffed with basil and fennel. As you can see it almost didn't fit in the oven.

Join the movement and we'll start a revolution - stop all unnecessary shopping - separate your needs from your wants.

The inner battle

My frugal self and my triathlete self have been having a pitched inside my head. On the triathlon side I am desperate to return to olympic distance racing. But my frugal has been saying just one more year and the mortgage will be paid off, his argument is this the we would have to travel to the longer races, pay for petrol, accommodation, the race etc and on top of that the children are very little.

So the result is that my frugal self defeated triathlete self especially when frugal phil reminded triathlete Phil of the huge challenge of improving his swimming to the point that it outshines triathlete Phil's cycling and running and therefore become a much better triathlete that will be mortgage free and therefore able to afford going away to race.