What you need:

Two or three fillets of cooked smoked mackerel (grill them)

Sweet tomatoes – washed

Handful of fresh flat-leaf parsley – washed

Pickled gherkins or cornichons

Two large spring onions, washed and chopped finely

Balsamic vinegar

Olive oil

Arty serving bowl

What you do:

Chop the tomatoes into quarters

Slice the gherkins

Roughly chop the parsley

If wanted – mix the dressing (seven to one of vinegar to oil)

Tear the fish into pieces

Put the tomatoes into the bowl

Add the fish and gherkins and gently stir (this helps the juices from the tomato flavour the fish)

Scatter over the spring onions

Garnish with the parsley

Serve with homemade bread and butter, or new potatoes for a more substantial meal