Fish stews - gumbo, bouillabaisse, jambalaya and stuff...

[EastEnder]

Sometimes on a low tide here we get really HUGE cockles.

PieEye does like a huge cockle.

 

[oddworld]

I made bouillabaise for the first time this weekend

You made what ?

Oh and fish Eeeeeew

 

[vipper]

You need this.

 

[dylanredefined]

Thankyou Vipper I am in your debt .Gumbo and po boys yummy .When I worked in new orleans even the hosptial canteen food was good .

 

[Pieface]

You made what ?

Oh and fish Eeeeeew

Fish is goooooood, Odds - all that variety! And the mad crazy things you get to eat like squid and sea urchin (although I never have ) and all the fish - the flat ones and the meaty ones and the, erm, other ones

Fish are where it's at. As long as we don't catch them all and fuck the sea up etc etc.

 

[tarannau]

I love fish, but it's about the least ethical food choice there is at the moment. Short of buying a limited selection of species from highly trusted fishmongers (at high prices) you're almost certainly supporting an unsustainable trade. Even felt vaguely guilty about my cheap cod and chips last Friday - not as if there was even any choice in this Southern chippie, it was dodgily overfished cod or cod. Or perhaps the horror of a saveloy.

Last time I made a cataplana I tried to justify paying nearly £20 for a littlish lump of monkfish tail from a good source. I ended up buying a worryingly cheaper bit from our local 'Discount Fish Warehouse' and feeling crappy afterwards

It's bad enough trying to source decent, fairly raised meat. Fish prices are just getting silly. After seeing the deforestation and environmental damage caused by prawn farms in Brazil, even the cheap shellfish I used to enjoy seem a little sour...

 

[tarannau]

BTW those are great gumbo recipes from Vipper. I would type out the one I've found, but I reckon you're onto a winner with those.

 

[EastEnder]

I love fish, but it's about the least ethical food choice there is at the moment.

You should only be eating organically grown, free range fish that's fallen naturally from the tree.

Anything else is immoral.

 

[tarannau]

You should only be eating organically grown, free range fish that's fallen naturally from the tree.

Anything else is immoral.

Trees man? Pull yourself together.

Anyone knows that you can only get decent organic squirrels from the average tree. Or perhaps a sloth if you're lucky.

The point remains though - most of the fish we see are amongst the most shittly sourced foodstuffs open to us. It's generally an unedifying choice between cheapish fish hoovered up and overfished to critical levels, lice-ridden tasteless farmed stocks or non-endangered species that I've rarely heard of, let alone cooked.

Bugger. It's a far world away from the image of a bloke using a rod to catch the odd fish and support his family.

 

[oddworld]

Fish is goooooood, Odds - all that variety! And the mad crazy things you get to eat like squid and sea urchin (although I never have ) and all the fish - the flat ones and the meaty ones and the, erm, other ones

Fish are where it's at. As long as we don't catch them all and fuck the sea up etc etc.

Just the smell of fish makes me feel really ill, I don't do fish

Maybe abit of tuna if that counts

 

[Pieface]

The point remains though - most of the fish we see are amongst the most shittly sourced foodstuffs open to us. It's generally an unedifying choice between cheapish fish hoovered up and overfished to critical levels, lice-ridden tasteless farmed stocks or non-endangered species that I've rarely heard of, let alone cooked.

I know.....it's crap isn't it? I don't make stuff as indulgent as this often - it's really expensive and feels a bit wrong. I need to learn more about sustainable varieties of fish - I try to avoid cod (although I think there was some in the random fish lumps I bought for the bouillabaisse).