Do you bastard monkfish a lot when pan fried?

[CityCommuter]

Just that! I bought some monkfish yesterday and plan to pan fry it for tomorrow's dinner. It's not something we usually cook in our house but I've tried it on holiday before and love it because it's not 'fishy' IYSWIM! Anyway I've looked at a few easy recipes of butter, olive oil and white wine but some say to bastard it throughout cooking and others just occasionally! Ideas please...

Poor monkfish. They can’t help it if their parents aren’t married.

Best get it from M&S - it's not just monkfish, it's legitimate, christened monkfish...
Goes by the name of Monky McMonkfish

Love the way your predictive text went for bastard as the obvious choice!

Just when you're thinking about getting a new username, one drops into your lap

Nice ham, cutted up pear, Fridays at center parcs, Mexican house thief and now you've given us bastard monkfish. Thank you for the laugh op!!!

@ThinWomansBrain

Best get it from M&S - it's not just monkfish, it's legitimate, christened monkfish... Goes by the name of Monky McMonkfish

😂 I’m crying

Bastard monkfish are the root of all the world's ills.

Is your monkfish recipe from the Sean Bean Cookbook?

Is your monkfish recipe from the Sean Bean Cookbook?

😂😂😂

You have to bastard it really really well. It's not enough that it's parents weren't married, ideally they shouldn't even be able to pick each other out of a line up.

Omg this is as good as the 'boil-in-the- vag' thread.

Swearing at fish - reported.

Anyone else hearing this post in Sean Bean's voice? Bastard monkfish.

Was this what you were trying to cook?

yes, bastard monkfish pan frying is what we do also

🤣

@PicaK

Nice ham, cutted up pear, Fridays at center parcs, Mexican house thief and now you've given us bastard monkfish. Thank you for the laugh op!!!

surely you meant naice ham

@iklboo

Is your monkfish recipe from the Sean Bean Cookbook?

😂😂😂

Boris Johnson's? I didn't know he'd published a cookery book - but got to pay for the wallpaper somehow. And the child maintenance.

Poor monkfish

I am fed up with the monkfish paternity shaming on Mumsnet

🤔

Bastard gold.

I am sitting here with my shoulders quivering with laughter. OP are we to assume that you actually use the word bastard frequently when typing, for your autocorrect to come up with it?

😉

I have no culinary expertise to lend but this thread has given me a good laugh so far 😂.