Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Awright I admit it: I'm a Soleshare Fanboy
Soleshare delivers genuinely sea-fresh every week to Harringay Local Store for customers to collect.
I signed up somewhat sceptically back in June and started receiving my weekly fishy-wishy in July. I thought I'd try it for a month then just stop.
Apart from the break in August, I've received some fantastically fresh fish or seafood every week and now I'm hooked.
What I like about it:
- The fish is very very fresh. The only smell I can ever get is the smell of the sea.
- There's a great variety, including things I'd never normally buy
- Every week, along with your fish you get a recipe.
It's a real treat every week. Today I picked up a pair of wonderfully fresh plaice. Pressed for time (and under Paul and Ebony's tutelage) all I did was to slap them under the grill for under 10 minutes, squeeze some lemon and serve. It was so fresh, nothing else was needed. It was absolutely delicious, a real delight.
Highly recommended.
See Soleshare's introductory post on HoL at hgyol.in/1Gbi1wO
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Permalink Reply by Martin (Woodside) on
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Hugh, have you ever had the pleasure of reading or owning a copy of Alan Davidson's Mediterranean Seafood?.
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Fantastic book, one of the best on my cookery bookshelf, it not only gives recipes (most of which you can use for non-Med fish) but gives an insight into local history, and a catalogue of fish species. As an example, this a small excerpt from the recipes of France section, it quotes part of the strong views expressed in book written about cooking certain types of fish by a Marseille hotel owner named as the late Mr Brun;
'These are to be neither gutted or scaled, but grilled whole, provided of course that they are perfectly fresh. To score the fish before grilling it is to inflict wanton damage, which the useless practice of basting will do little to repair. Under the heat of the grill the scales will coalesce to form a natural armour within which the imprisoned juices will keep the flesh exquisitely succulent. The natural flavour is not to be qualified by any condiment or addition. The lemon (conceded to be good for other purposes such as making lemonade) is not to be used. Salt is banned'.
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Permalink Reply by SarahC on
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I ate mine similarly, just grilled, accompanied by potato drizzled with olive oil and a bit of basil, with a rather over-attentive feline audience. I forgot to buy any lemon and it was still wonderful.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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My cat has some kind of fish radar. You just have to take the stuff out of the fridge and you can hear him galloping down the stairs. Similarly a sixth sense for when you take out cream.
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Why do cats like fish?, because cats hate water you wouldn't think it would be a food they would appreciate, I suppose one could say the same about cream, I've never seen a cat sucking a cow's teet. One for Google maybe.
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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Martin, methinks Lady Macbeth touched upon this feline anomaly as she tried to persuade her wimpish man to screw his courage to the sticking place in The Scottish Play:
"Wouldst thou have that / Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, / And live a coward in thine own esteem, / Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would' / Like the poor cat i' th' adage?"
The adage was of course: 'The cat would love to eat fish but hates to get his/her paws wet.'
But why do you think cats ever tolerated the company of the two-legged if they did not hope that some of their "owners" would turn out to be either fishermen, fishwives or milkmen/maids ?
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Mine has progressed to rearing up like a meerkat and tapping me gently on the knee intermittently throughout the meal to remind me of her fishy needs. I fear the next stage is a full-scale leap onto the plate.
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I once went into the kitchen and found that mine had carefully moved to one side slices of melon and eaten the Parma ham underneath it.
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