Saturday, June 22, 2013

Skate and Pea Tips


Wednesday 19 June
Now be honest - if you read this aloud, wouldn't you think this post would contain tips about how to skate and pee?  But it doesn't.
It's just that today Barbara was out at Jungle Jim's, and as usual, took the opportunity to snap up something from their abundant fish market.  This time it was skate wings, now up to $3.99/lb. (they're twice that at Luken's).   Heedlessly she didn't have the skate skin removed, but she did get a half pound of what JJ's is now calling pea tips - pea shoots are much smaller - so we could do this.
Of course, skating with the skin on is more complicated, so we made a court bouillon with thyme leaves and boiled the two whole wings for a while, as here.

The ugly things looked quite mysterious and prehistoric.  And when they were done, Holt scraped the skin off, and served them in our traditional way, with brown butter and capers.
With our dipturus batis (we hope not intermedia - look it up), we drank Lacheteau Vouvray 2012 - rich and a little sweet, but good with buttery food.

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