Fucking Fishcakes.

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I made them with leftover mash started a few hours ago and still haven't bloody finished. Stupidly added some of the poaching milk to the mix and of course it's too fucking wet. All the fucking herb chopping and all the different plates for egg flour and crumbs. Argh. Who the fuck has time to make these.

The trouble with fish cakes is, the candles don’t stay alight under water. Ba doom tish! Or even Ba Doom Fish!

Stick some breadcrumbs in to absorb the extra milk.

Hahahahahahahaha

Good tip thanks

I do love fish cakes though. Or just fried mashed potato.

I made fish cakes once.

Note the once. It was a ridiculous amount of hassle.

I make them fairly often, but I use tinned salmon which makes it easier.

Put in a metal dish and bake the whole mixture . When life gives you lemons etc etc

Homemade fish cakes are lovely but time and effort makes it not worth it. Just fry them up as is OP and if they crumble apart just call it Mediterranean bubble and squeak

Aldi do very nice ones with a sauce in the middle 😉. I have a similar view on making fishcakes as Shirley Conran had regarding stuffing mushrooms.

I suggested tinned tuna but DH said yuck.

Ah fishcakes. I had to make 420 for a wedding once. Soul destroying.

I put in fridge hoping to fry and finish in oven?

Use a food processor

Definitely put them in the fridge before frying. Best chill them for a couple of hours so they don't fall apart.

There are some meals that are meant to be bought in, not made.

I can’t do them either.

I don't know anyone who makes fish cakes and my friends are all really good cooks. We all have a fish cake disaster story though.

Once and never again. Supermarket ones are perfectly nice!

There's a lot I'm prepared to do for Mumsnet, but fucking fishcakes is out.

Fry 'em. Honestly, anything tastes fine if you fry it in butter.

If you have packet mash flakes, that'll work.

I keep some specifically for these kinds of things.

Oh so did I so did I.

@Oceangreyscale I meant to say.

I make salmon fishcakes by sticking a few salmon fillets and a packet of smoked salmon trimmings with a bit of spring onion or red onion, ginger and black pepper in a food processor and chopping until it's mixed together but not totally smooth, shape and stick on an oven tray and bake until solid. Sometimes I add chilli, sometimes a bit of leftover potato but not usually, they are delicious with a sweet chilli sauce. Much simpler than the faff of making potato, think I added a tin of potatoes once to bulk them out when we needed extra.

Hellish.