As always, I shall live vicariously through your fish share.
(I’m an oily fish guy, myself.)
As always, I shall live vicariously through your fish share.
(I’m an oily fish guy, myself.)
It’s scombric, not scrombic. I had to look it up years ago when I was a volunteer at one of the pickup locations. I let them know they misspelled it so they could fix it when printing future flyers and updating the website, but they never did.
I just google searched “scombric definition”, and I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a measly two results, neither relevant, before. I love odd words, so now I’m curious about a source for this definition…
I think it is a made up word based on scombroid, which I think is an actual class of fish.
Edit - sorry a suborder of fish Scombroidei
See the Wikipedia entry for scombroid.
Interesting and disturbing article but it has NOTHING to do with Cape Ann Fresh Catch which is based north of Boston, not down in New Bedford.
ETA: I have moved it to its own thread.
I’m glad it’s been moved to its own thread, but it’s still linked to Cape Ann Fresh Catch, which could lead some to think there is a connection.
I don’t think there is anything I can do about that, the software tracks where it was moved from.
Ok, people, I confess: I’ve been eating CAFC fish and hiding it from you. Time to make amends:
Although I like this Cape Ann outfit, and want them to succeed, I have some concerns:
Nice report and I am positively pea-green with envy over the whiting. I have only had it from CAFC and thought it was beyond fabulous. I have been in hiatus with them but it’s time to re-up.
Posting my first two fish meals made with catches from the current season.
Pollock topped with panko and Cajun spice, then oven roasted. I used jarred mayo as the base for remoulade sauce on the side. No, I wasn’t the person who plated the buttermilk mashed potatoes.
Hake baked in Maya Kaimal’s Tikka Masala sauce. Unconventional but the sauciness worked well with hake, which dries out easily. I added the tiniest amount of Berbere spice to the fish to dial up the flavor.
May I say, D-TT, that I respect you, read your every post, admire you, love you (chastely), … but now I hate you?
How can a guy like me compete with your pix? They’re great!
On the less pictorial side, I posted my Pollock here, and here’s my hake and haddock (beat you to the punch on the haddock):
I rotate my regular “catch of the day” with scallops, salmon, and whole fish. This was salmon week and I roasted the salmon the next day.
that all sounds delicious!!!
Just to clarify, I do not dust my hake with my white peers, but with white pepper.
Along with the whole haddock, I got my normal filets (also haddock). I made fish “aur” chips with those, where “aur” is hindi for “and”. I use that lingo because the fish batter was made with chickpea flour (besan), cumin seeds, etc., and the chips were dusted with the sulfurous black salt that’s often used in chaat.
Week 4: Hake again. The accompanying recipe that Cape Ann sent involved canned clam juice and parsley. I figured, what the hey, and went for canned coconut milk, and snips of basil, cilantro and chives.
But there were also my scallops (on my rotating schedule). I had some vadouvan on hand from Curio (a French curry powder loosely based on dried-in-the-sun balls of fried onions and spices called vadavam in Pondicheri – for a blink of an eye, a French colony), so I dusted the scallops in them, panfried them for 2 minutes a side in ghee, deglazed the pan with chopped onions – they give off liquid – garlic and ginger, added the coconut milk and two slit green chilies, slid in the hake showered in the snipped herbs, stirred and added back the scallops. A sort of multi-culti fisherperson’s stew.
Served with basmati rice and tomahawk broccoli.
I really like the firmness of hake. I use it in a loose adaptation of the renowned Nobu Miso Cod recipe. For two servings:
1 tsp ginger juice
2 tbsp yellow miso
2 tbsp rice vinegar
2 tsp sugar
8-10 oz hake fillets
Marinate 8hrs - 2 days in the fridge (less than a day is fine). Scrape th solids off the fish before broiling on upper middle rack, using an oiled broiler pan, until flaky ad golden brown. I usually just bake it at 450F for 15 minutes, and when out of fresh ginger, use liquid from pickled ginger, reducing the sugar by half.
The fish this week was “Dabs” (aka Plaice Flounder). I hadn’t had it before, so I was intrigued. The accompanying recipe suggested panfrying dusted in flour then serving with a lemon caper sauce. But, I had an Italianate theme from the night before to continue (large tray of chicken and eggplant parm, plus pasta that needed to be finished), so I dusted the dabs with parm (light touch) and breadcrumbs then pan fried in brown butter. The fish was firmer than I was expecting, a good thing when cooking because it meant flipping it was easy, but it yielded a final result less delicate than other white fish.
My second fish of the week was salmon which I cooked in a style that I loosely borrowed and simplified from F. Dunlop’s Food of Sichuan: Par-fried the filets after dusting them in cornstarch and white pepper then finished them in a sauce of fermented broad-bean paste, minced ginger, minced garlic, a little stock, then topped copiously with chopped scallions. Served with steamed rice (and, as a side, cold sesame noodles with slivered cucumbers).
Both sound delicious! I absolutely loved dabs when I got them.
How did you cook dabs, or how were they cooked for you when you had them?