Fish and chips: Torvehallen

A new day a new food trip, I can see a pattern emerging here and thankfully it is running alongside new gym membership and a heavy workout schedule.

At mid-day I met two wonderful friends for a stroll around Torvehallen and a bite to eat whilst there. We first visited the Coffee Collective for a cortado, the ultimate kick start on a cold cold day in Copenhagen.

We ate fish and chips which caused endless excitement from my more recently arrived English friend and my toddler. They were very good and just the ticket should you be a homesick Brit. His godmother and I ate the lobster soup which was very tasty but a wheat free diet rule breaker. It would have been rude to remove all the croutons from the rich broth so comfortable were they steeped in the coral pink liquid, besides rules are there to be broken occasionally.

There followed a tour of the two food halls collecting groceries as we went. It is so fun to go with first time visitors and to watch as they discover all the delicious ingredients just waiting to be taken home for a session in the kitchen. As much as I could happily cook everything there, no amount of gym membership would help me so I must be content to live vicariously through the baskets of others.

I bought the ingredients to make traditional English fish pie, a staple of our diet in England thanks to the amazing fish shops along the Northumberland coast. We have enjoyed it less and less over here due to the availability of quality seafood and the cost of fish so today when I had the opportunity to buy excellent fish at a reasonable price I seized it.

Now, I do not normally post recipes on Scandineighbour because my goal is to recommend places to visit and I am not a restaurant (although I would love to own a food cart, but that's a dream for another day) however my companions suggested I share some pictures of Wednesday evening Fish Pie. There is no recipe, I cook from my mind and taste as I go but it would be very easy to find one should you prefer measurements.

So there you are, ingredients from Torvehallen, fish pie from Newcastle. Little boys well fed and a welcome walk down memory lane for their ever so slightly homesick Mummy.