The Susanne

I caught a fish! Well, The Boy­friend and I caught it but I reeled him in and gutted him and cleaned him. And named him, Kalle Cod. After Kalle Klovn which was a char­ac­ter on tv when I was little. It was quite funny actu­ally, we were out on the water at about 9pm, and The Boy­friend said that he actu­ally hoped we didn’t catch any fish because then we’d have to clean it and bla bla bla. The next moment his face went kind of funny and he handed me the line. And there was def­in­itely a catch on the other end of it! So I reeled it in and as there was jelly­fish on the line and we were only a few short minutes from his house we just put little Kalle in a bucket and sped home. The whole family came down to see and The Boyfriend’s mum helped me gut and clean the fish. So fun. Going fish­ing again tonight, and Trond’s coming too. I’m excited about it: I love fish, I love fish­ing and I love hanging out with Trond. Unbeat­able com­bin­a­tion, really!

Here in Norway we have some­thing called ’fjellørret’ mean­ing ’moun­tain trout’. Basic­ally it’s trout caught in little moun­tain rivers and lakes, they’re small and incred­ibly deli­cious! I call them arctic trout as their latin name has ‘arctic’ in it. Hard­anger­trout are trout caught on Hard­anger­vidda. With a birth­place so wild and won­der­ful, no wonder they taste like a little piece of heaven…

Serves 2 hungry Nor­we­gian fish lovers

• 2 Hard­anger trout, boned and skin scraped
• 4 tbsp butter or margarine
• Salt and pepper

Cut the fil­lets in half so you have eight pieces. Rub both sides with salt and pepper to taste.

Put a heavy-​bottomed skil­let on a high heat, and melt 1 tbsp butter. Add two pieces of trout, skin side down. Let them cook for about two minutes, then flip and cook for about 1 minute on the other side. If the skin isn’t crisp, flip them again to let the skin turn lovely and crunchy. Repeat with the rest of the fish, cook­ing two at a time and adding more butter when needed. Serve imme­di­ately, with a potato salad or maybe twice baked potatoes?