These are glorified fish fingers, I suppose. Curiously appropriate for an afternoon in which you've pretended to be a mermaid and built a cardboard boat with a paper sail.
You'll need
a couple of fillets of fish (we had basa, which I've had in France under the name of panga)
an egg, beaten
3 or 4 tablespoons of flour
lots of black pepper, a little salt
a little vegetable oil, or butter for frying
You can either slice your fillets into chunks (basa has fairly firm flesh), or do the whole fillet if you have a pan big enough. I suspect you might have to cook a whole fillet for longer than the small pieces.
Mix the flour, black pepper and salt together, and place in a large flat bowl. Dip each fillet (or piece) of fish in the beaten egg, and then dunk in the flour mix. Your Dad reckons that cornflour produces a lighter batter, and is particularly good if you're doing small pieces.
Heat the vegetable oil or butter in a frying pan until it's sizzling. Add the fish (you might have to do this in batches), and turn each piece over after a couple of minutes. You'll be able to see how well it's cooked by the colour of the fish. Fry for another couple of minutes until the outside is golden, remove, and eat asap.
We had ours with some homemade oven chips, and a green salad. The mermaid ate most of the fish, but thought that the chips were the best bit. C'est la vie.
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