Salt and Woodsmoke

please.
As from today, we have:
Fresh Fish
Organic veg
Artisanal bread
Organic Milk
and a new sign:

So, you can’t read what it says? Pah, who cares? It says “Stop at this crazy old run down place and buy some great English food”
On our first day as a fresh fish shop we sold fresh fish to three [...]

Last Thursday found me in the gentrified surroundings of Tattersalls (Europes Leading Bloodstock Auctioneers). I had been asked by the management to go and sell some smoked produce to the audience of a Clarissa Dickson-Wright (christened: Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson-Wright) cooking demonstration.
The cooking demonstration was not great [...]

We spent an hour or so today filleting fish in preparation for the expansion of our shop and the introduction of a fresh (wet) fish counter.
We’ve all filleted fish before but having Bill, our friendly fish wholesaler, showing us how to do it properly was a real help.
The key is a good quality, flexible sharp [...]

..erm terribly nice fish. Healthy. Meaty. Fishy.
We smoke it without it’s head, hanging by its tail.
The resultant smoked mackerel looks like this and tastes wonderful.

saw this:

and thought of Global Graphics. Missing you!
On a related note. Try searching Technorati for “Global Graphics”.
Must be quiet over there.

Can’t say I was totally convinced by the idea. To be fair, I swore at Chris and made it clear to him that ew should not be smoking parmesan. Same as we don’t smoke stilton. Don’t get me started on smoked stilton.
Anyway, I smoked the parmesan for 18 hours or so and then, secretly, I [...]

Inspired by David Lebovitz I checked my stats and saw that NetVibes is now my number one referrer.
I’d never heard of it but it’s an Ajax homepage similar to Google’s. Looks pretty funky. I may try it out for a bit.
Anyone out there tried it?

Antique recipes for every day of the year:
http://theoldfoodie.blogspot.com/
A great blog from down under.

At the weekend, my sisters, their families, and my family organised a surprise party for our parents golden wedding anniversary. It was a wonderful event and our folks were overcome with emotion. (I got really pissed with my nephew and brother in law too, but that is irrelevant to the story),
I was given the [...]