104: Grilled monkfish with rosemary, served with garlic mayo, p251

I've never cooked monkfish - and judging from the price of it, it's not really a surprise - £12.75 for a good sized fillet (which was plenty for the two of us, esp with how meaty monkfish is), I was terrified that I was going to inadvertently render it inedible... But no, Nige saw us through again, and marinaded for a couple of hours and then grilled for 5mins on either side didn't destroy it at all. Even the extra 5mins wait in the warm oven whilst the new potatoes finished cooking (grr!!) didn't seem to do it any harm. Lovely jubbly. The lemon in the marinade part cooked the fish on the outside, and was deliciously fishy and garlicky and lemony. Yum.

And another first, homemade mayonnaise. Blimey - it's easy! Hah, maybe that's beginner's luck and I'm now forever more cursed wrt mayo-making... Starts to make your wrist hurt, whisking away, whilst dripping the oil in bit by bit, but then all of a sudden it's thickened and just gets better and better. Magic! I didn't use all the oil at all though, I made half of the recipe as it was just the two of us, so measured out 150ml oil, but can only have used 50-75ml in total - the mayo was the right consistency and thickness (and volume!) by this point, and it seemed like it might be tempting fate to go any further. Or would have left us with an enormous amount of fresh mayo to use up quickly... The recipe was actually for garlic mayo, so had a couple of cloves of garlic crushed and mixed in. Jeepers - we're now both experiencing serious garlic repetitions... hope that they fade overnight...