For reasons unknown - cooking disaster and easy dinner time solutions?

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G'day Folks,

I've been amazed by the wide knowledge base on this forum before so I'm going to see how far it does actually go by asking one about my house wife duties!

Tonight's disaster was meant to be fish pie.


I had boiled the potatoes and made them into mash (bit of milk and butter).

The fish and prawns were frozen and not really thawed.

I had squeazed half a lemon over the frozen fish and whacked it in an oven proof dish.

I had carefully made my own white sauce - cooked plain flour in butter - added milk and heated until it thickened.

When the sauce was done I poured it over thawing fish and topped it off with the mash.


Bunged it in the oven at 180 degrees C (that's about 350 F or gas mark 4)


'Cos the fish was still a bit frozen I left it in there at that temperature for about an hour and then when I thought the top was going to look like an Australian BBQ I put some foil on top.


When I came to serve it the sodding thing was like creamy water - pisses me off when %&^*^&* like that happens.

Does anyone know what I did wrong?

(Other than not telling the wife to cook dinner)