Pasta with Rocket Pesto for Lunch and Oven Baked Sea Bream (Skippy) for Dinner

Pasta and pesto has always been a staple children's tea time meal in our family, so when I was given the opportunity to make a rocket pesto, I didn't think it was very inventive. WRONG! It appears there is a wonderful earthy difference between the shop bought and homemade. Pesto is traditionally made with basil, but rocket is a good substitute, giving the pesto a fresh peppery flavour. Making the pesto was really easy, I used shop bought rocket salad because my Mother's home grown rocket tends to blow a hole through the roof of my mouth! When tasting the pesto I felt it needed a bit of a bite, so I added a squeeze of lemon juice, which did the trick. We used fettuccine pasta and accompanied with a dressed spinach salad.
For similar recipe go to:
http://eatdrinkpaleo.com.au/perfect-rocket-basil-pesto-recipe/

Ratings:
Taste: 10
Appearance: 9
Difficulty: 3

The baked fish was a bit of a disaster. The sauce, made of onion, celery, garlic and tomatoes tasted nice, but Skippy (no not a small kangaroo) was not a great success. Having looked up 'Skippy' online, I have discovered that its real name is 'Silver Trevally'. It seems these fish are great fishing sport, but not overly popular for their taste. We found it to be very fishy, off white with a slightly odd texture and phenomenally sharp, small bones. We were wowed into buying them because they had only just arrived at the fishmongers an hour before. Served with new boiled potatoes and steamed asparagus. No amount of photography could make this look attractive!
For similar recipe go to:
http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/sea-bream-with-mediterranean-sauce.html

Ratings:
Taste: 2
Appearance: 4
Difficulty: 6