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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