· James Torr · Personal · 1 min read
Lovely Sunday afternoon dinner. BBQ grilled sea bream and razor clams, rice and salad with red mizuna (mustard greens), red lettuce, chives, spring onions from the greenhouse. Campari soda on the side to add a touch of class.
Seafood BBQ yesterday. Leeks, razor clams and baby octopus (both frozen) from Fish in Hove. Chili salt, Vietnamese dipping sauce (fish sauce, sweet chili, cider vinegar, water: roughly equal parts) to garnish.
Here we have a butterflied, salted and dried Indian mackerel, known as aji no himano in Japan. Traditionally eaten for breakfast, however, I ate it for a late lunch today. It was accompanied by smoked salmon skin, crisped up in an air fryer, and some fried rice. The mackerel process is relatively simple once butterflied, and would work just as well on filleted mackerel or sardines. I soaked 4 in 100ml of 10% alcohol (sake or 1 part gin/vodka diluted with 3 water) for about 15 minutes.
And I just happened to have everything to hand in the fridge/freezer for a fish and chips meal this afternoon.
Ensenada fish tacos for Valentine's lunch. Thanks to super friendly and helpful Gabriel @casa.azul.brighton for the blue masa harina. They turned out great after my rather shoddy first attempt with masarepa. I hope to get a bit more knowledge on this deep and eclectic cuisine, it's quite a lot though! While reading around, I learned a little bit about a very interesting British author called Diana Kennedy, who lived until 99, in Mexico since the 1950s.