Making fish pie more tasty?

[SGertie]

I made fish pie for the dc and a separate one for dh and me. The dc have just eaten and enjoyed it but I had a taste and found it a bit bland.
I poached salmon and haddock in milk and bay leaf, used the milk to make cheese sauce. Added boiled egg. Topped with mashed potato and sweet potato with grated cheese topping
Any ideas how I can improve it before cooking ours later?

I like adding sliced leak to the fish (lightly fried) and a few fennel seeds.
I also put spring onions in the mash.

I like leeks in mine too; first I fry the leeks gently in some butter, then add some flour and stir it over the heat for a minute or so. I then add some of the milk I poached my fish in a liitle bit at a time to make sauce.

I put cheese in and mustard too and use smoked haddock. A few prawns and a layer of spinach under the potato is nice too.
God I love fish pie

Another vote for the Jamie Oliver recipe, with loads of grated celery & carrot - good way of stealth vegging the kids, too!

Mmm - this is making me feel hungry.
DP won't eat mustard, so he usually puts in a dash of chilli which is good.
Do you have any chilli sauce or similar - maybe add a splash of that to your pie this time round, or even a dollop of tomato ketchup.

Another vote for fish stock cubes and smoked fish/bacon.

I use salmon, smoked fish,a white fish and king prawns, plus scallops if I can be bothered. Plus boiled eggs, capers and lemon juice.

No cheese in the sauce, but lots on top of the mash.

Everyyone loves it, even those who don't normally like fish pie much.

I do Jamie's from Naked Chef the Return and its one of DH's favourite's ( as well as the DC's ) and DH will only eat things packed with flavour.

Fry onion carrot and celery, boil potatoes and eggs, set a colander of spinach over to steam. Once onion mix soft, add 1 x 300ml carton double cream, 2 good handfuls very strong cheddar or parmesan, handful chopped dill, juice of half a lemon and a teaspoon of English mustard. Season to taste. Shell eggs and quarter, mash potatoes with milk and butter and seasoning. Layer smoked haddock, salmon and white fish chunks then spinach, chopped, then oniony cream sauce then mash. Cook on high for 25 mins.

So, so good.

taffeta, i assume the fish is raw in that recipe? and how high is high? 200?
thanks for sharing! sounds like a fab recipe

I make Levi Roots caribbean fish pie. Mixed fish, lime juice, coconut milk and spinach and corriander ,mixed into a white sauce with sweet potato mash on top

coral - yes the fish is raw. If I'm making for 4 of us, I just buy Sainsbo's fish pie mix, which is biggish chunks of smoked haddock, salmon and cod. High is 220 C. And I forgot to say to put the quartered eggs in after the spinach.

DH would love that Levi Roots one.