Saturday 22 March
Today was the North Parade farmers' market, which is only on the fourth Saturday per month. This was the first time we've
seen a fishwife there (she was fairly
young, so maybe she was just a fish girlfriend), so we snapped up her very last lemon sole, which came out as our top choice
in a pre-blog sole sweepstakes (one Dover and one lemon from Angel Fisheries in
the Chapel Market, Islington).
It was
interesting to see the contrast in color between top and bottom sides, and the
fish also turned out to have a nice roe-sack, which was good if you like that
sort of thing, and an experience if you don't.
We've used Jamie Oliver's
tray-baked sole recipe before, though only for fillets; this time, we had the
real McCoy. Our only modifications were to use
sautéed fennel and onion for our base, and slightly larger tomatoes, quartered.
Results tasted excellent, though as
we need more practice in how to debone a sole, we served the fish more as shreds than as fillets.
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