Worthing Lifestyle Jul - Aug 2021
The high summer edition is here! And this issue is packed with amazing features, including delicious slow cooker recipes, an unbelievable garden transformation and a competition page brimming with prizes!
The high summer edition is here! And this issue is packed with amazing features, including delicious slow cooker recipes, an unbelievable garden transformation and a competition page brimming with prizes!
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
out boxes to people like a seafood meal for 2<br />
and we suddenly built up to several hundred<br />
boxes a week which was quite a considerable<br />
amount.<br />
What we did was open a fishmongers in<br />
Brixham just before lockdown, so we ran it<br />
from there sending out all these boxes. I then<br />
started to reflect on my own behaviour at<br />
home, how it had changed and how I was<br />
buying my toilet roll, my chemicals, my meat<br />
and things stuff that I had never bought on<br />
mail order before and subscriptions and I<br />
was really enjoying it. I started to think about<br />
how much people had loved our boxes and<br />
how Sainsbury’s had closed their fish counter<br />
and I thought why can’t we set up a seafood<br />
at home business so we completed buying<br />
our fish supplier, we buy off the fish market<br />
everyday we have our own boat out there<br />
fishing so we bought that company and then<br />
we bought another company that makes<br />
sauces and things for us but also makes<br />
things for Fortman & Mason and the big fancy<br />
retailers. So, we are launching in <strong>Jul</strong>y a really<br />
innovated seafood at home business where<br />
you will be able to buy amazingly fresh fish<br />
packaged brilliantly, nice and easy recipes<br />
available nationwide. Hopefully the reputation<br />
will be great, and people will trust us, they<br />
can see our fishing boats our restaurants and<br />
they will want to buy fish from us.<br />
KNOW YOU ARE EXTREMELY BUSY BUT WHAT<br />
DO YOU DO TO RELAX?<br />
I’m a sailor, a big reader so I love to read,<br />
and I love to cook and entertain at my house<br />
with the children. I’m a sailor so I love to plan<br />
voyages I can’t wait to get on the water, and<br />
we are sailing our boat up to the West Coast<br />
of Scotland. I’m leaving in 3 weeks and we<br />
are going to try and live a little bit up there<br />
and a little bit down here and just take some<br />
valuable time.<br />
LETS TALK ABOUT YOUR BOOK WHICH<br />
LOOKS WONDERFUL. WHEN YOU DO YOUR<br />
RECIPES WHAT INSPIRES YOU? DO YOU<br />
DRAW ON YOUR EXPERIENCE OR DO YOU<br />
LIKE TO CREATE NEW DISHES?<br />
I think in this book I draw on my love of<br />
seafood which is really nice and my own<br />
experiences in the rock fish book there’s quite<br />
a lot of new dishes things that I mainly cook<br />
at home. What I really enjoyed about this<br />
book is there’s no boundaries. This is food<br />
that I love like Asian food Singapore Chilli<br />
Crab (pictured top right) and Crispy fried Chilli<br />
cuttlefish. It’s really great!<br />
I’VE NEVER WORKED WITH FRESH CRAB SO<br />
MAYBE WHEN I NEXT COME DOWN YOU CAN<br />
SHOW ME WHAT TO DO WITH IT.<br />
I can definitely do that, and you know when<br />
you eat a wonderful fresh crab it’s a mindblowing<br />
experience.<br />
YOU HAVE SOME FABULOUS ACCOLADES<br />
BOTH ON YOUR WEBSITE AND IN THE LATEST<br />
BOOK IS THERE ONE IN PARTICULAR THAT<br />
STRIKES A LIGHT WITH YOU OR IS IT THAT<br />
THEY ARE ALL GOOD AND YOU ARE PROUD TO<br />
RECEIVE<br />
THEM?<br />
To be honest it’s not one of<br />
the things I ever think about<br />
but they are very humbling.<br />
I think the thing I was most<br />
proud of was the fact I was a<br />
council house boy and didn’t<br />
really excel in education so<br />
when I got a doctorate from<br />
Plymouth University, I was<br />
very proud. I had to stand up<br />
and do a speech in front of the<br />
students and I never imagined<br />
that I would get to university<br />
and receive an honorary<br />
doctorate and it was my most<br />
personal proudest moment of<br />
recognition.<br />
THE ROCKFISH COOKBOOK –<br />
PUBLISHED MAY <strong>2021</strong><br />
FROM RESTAURANTS &<br />
THEROCKFISH.CO.UK<br />
www.minervamagazines.co.uk | 11