February 17th, 2011
So, now we have the new website up and running. I hope you like it and find it informative, helpful and easy to use. Please let us know if there’s anything we can add to improve it.
Some of you may have caught my little cameo appearance on Lorraine Pascal’s “baking made easy” on BBC. Lorraine was baking some prawns with a delicious whisky glaze, which I shall be cooking at the weekend for mum’s birthday, hopefully followed by a classic Turbot with hollandaise, I will let you know how it goes. (I’m confident about the turbot but will have to practice my Hollandaise)
I hope to start giving you some more recipes and ways of cooking fish, including some of the fish that you may be a little wary of trying, for example sprats. A delicious little oily fish caught in abundance around our coast from October to March.
These little beauties are packed with nutritional value. Bundles of flavour and are very very inexpensive (cheap is not a word in my vocabulary)
For two people you need about 1lb (454g) of sprats, costing about £3. Rinse and pat them dry then toss them in some seasoned flour until they are nicely coated. Then panfry or deep fry, in a bland vegetable oil (not olive oil) until golden and crispy. Serve with lemon wedges, a garlic mayo and a green salad.
Till next time
Best Fishes
Rex Goldsmith
in Great Recipes, In The Shop
January 13th, 2011
Happy New Year. I hope you’ve had a wonderful Xmas (involving plenty of seafood)
I’m sure you have been watching Hugh’s FISH FIGHT on Channel 4. A very worthy campaign highlighting the very wasteful method of ”discarding” fish. Throwing dead “over quota” fish back overboard to me is a criminal act but seems to be the only option to the fishermen under the current European quota system.
Hugh’s aim is to raise the profile of this appauling system and get it stopped, once and for all.
If you wish to support Hugh and join his campaign, go to www.channel4.com/programmes/hughs-fish-fight. On the same website at www.channel4.com/4food/recipes/popular-ingredients/fish-and-seafood/fish-inspiration you can watch me preparing and talking about 20 species of fish which are not under threat of over fishing.
Best wishes Rex
in All about fish
December 10th, 2010
This is my favorite time of year for fish as they are all in such perfect condition. Also we are blessed with all the wonderful shellfish that the colder months bring us.
We have started having Oyster Saturday’s in both our shops and it is getting more and more popular by the week.
The colder months does mean high winds and harsh weather at sea, so this can affect our availability sometimes. As most of our fish is wild and organic in the true sense of the word and is not grown on trees, if it ain’t caught, you cant have it. Its always best to go to your fishmonger with an open mind and not a preconceived idea, be guided by your fishmonger and by what looks nice. There will always be something to tempt you.
in All about fish, Great Recipes, In The Shop, Seasonal Catches
