Easy beef pot roast

I treated myself to a 29cm oval Le Creuset casserole a couple of weeks ago. The first dish I made with it was the Taiwanese three-cup chicken, a nod to my roots. But to really test out the cookware, I made a simple pot roast with neither bells (herbs/spices) nor whistles (thick gravy). 

Beef pot roast

Pan fried gurnard with lemon butter

In the spirit of trying something new (and having fish at least once a week), I picked up a few fillets of gurnard and pan fried them for dinner. Apparently, gurnards are bony and lacking in flavour and so they are usually quite cheap to buy. And indeed, at €8.90 per kilogram, they were the cheaper ones on offer at my local fishmonger. However, while bony and lean, they were still quite flavourful. But that may have to do with the knobs of butter and dashes of fresh lemon juice I used.

Pan fried gurnard with lemon butter, served with brown rice spaghetti with garlic, courgette, pesto