What did you eat today that you grew, made, caught, dried/pickled or bought locally?

Spotted sea trout, which have no relation to fresh water trout, but look like them a bit.



I put about 40, 14 ounce packs of fillets of these in the freezer this autumn when they are plentiful and easy to catch if you know how. We have been having them deep fried, and that is nice, but last night I went right back to basics and had the fillets sauteed in butter till nice and brown. Then I put in about 5 ounces of thawed crab meat to the side and let that cook and served the fish with a remoulade sauce. Specs, as they are called, are a soft fish so cooking them long to dry them out a bit - and firm them up - is my favorite. I usually do a sauce, or add lemon at the end, or some flavoring because they have a slightly strong flavor. They are a nice, white, meaty fish though, and we have them about twice a week.

We are having a sausage (from the local butcher, almost a thing of the past unfortunately) and egg sandwich for breakfast, the eggs from our bad forest chickens.

 

We need a migratory fish licence to catch Sea Trout over here, same one you have to have to fish for Salmon.

 

These are not related to British sea trout, which are a brown trout that migrate to the sea like salmons they are closely related to - but as everywhere settlers went, they named the local things for what was back home. These are some warm water sea fish, in the same family as the Redfish which is the other main fish we catch and eat here. My favorite fish of all is the freshwater trout, I have fished for them on 3 continents and in so many amazingly bueatyful places. But it is too hot for them here.

I have thawed some shrimp for tonight.

edit: Zigs, I have caught large numbers of salmons - and my most effective bait for Chinook Salmon (the big ones) has been a one inch long piece of blue yarn.

 

Love this thread it's fascinating.

This is the Romanesco from my garden that I had for lunch yesterday. Delicious with white sauce and paprika :-)

 

Leek 'Elefant', a year in the making. Gone into a homemade Chicken & Tarragon Pie:

 

That looks delicious! Beautiful leek

 

Rain stopped play in the garden.
So I'm making bread instead. It will be served up tonight to mop up the first home grown ratatouille of the year.

 

Ta-daah!

 

At last the tomatoes have caught up with the cucumbers, so Greek salad all the way from now on Also time to make a big batch of ratatouille for bottling. It's late this year.....

 

I had a bun from the shop around the corner.

 

I'm pleased you gave Stupice another chance.

 

Speaking of taste, are we having a Tomato Taste thread for 2022?