What's the connection?

stephen

stephen

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between this fellow with a conch shell

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this fellow called bob

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and my evening meal tonight?

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no prizes for guessing - but the fish cost 7 euros!!
 
sometimes we also buy fish to this guy from san rafael (but originally from santa gertrudis) known as es peixeter de can font jaumet!! :D

would you believe that my grandparents used to buy fish to his fisherman dad known as pep pep (seriously 8O ) 40 years ago? :roll:

and would you believe that he started selling fish around the island when he was 14? :o

he has a pescadería in c. vicente serra (managed by his 33 year old son)!! :P

i bet you didnt know all that!! :lol:

McFishy
 
McRackin said:
would you believe that my grandparents used to buy fish to his fisherman dad known as pep pep (seriously 8O ) 40 years ago? :roll:

and would you believe that he started selling fish around the island when he was 14? :o
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I envy (in a good way) folks like you who have lived in one place for such a long time. There is such a sense of community :D . My family has moved from one place to another for the past 100 years 8O . I have personally lived among three cultures, and four places that were a world apart from each other. I always used to envy (in a good way) my friends whose parents new each other, the school principal used to know their parents, etc. Although I learned a lot from the different cultures and I adapted myself like a chameleon and I was accepted quite easily by every society I always longed for a sense of belonging to a specific place. It's great that you have such a strong connection to one place :D .

Cheers,

LagunaBeachCA
 
mackie - it was cod.

ibizalisa - i ate all that i made but i'll give you the recipe if you want
 
stephen:

yesterday we bought some fish from this guy and i couldnt resist telling him that i saw him on the internet!! :lol:

as you can imagine his answer was: what the hell is internet? 8O :o 8O

(he remembered though that an extranjero asked for permission to take his picture ;) )
 
here's the recipe

Cod a la Marinara

Ingredients

Cod
Tomatoes
Spring Onions
Garlic
Fennel
Egg
Gnocchi
Clams
White wine
Peanuts
Olive oil
Flat leaf parsley

Method
1. Pour a generous glass of white wine and accompany with a bowl of peanuts whilst preparing the meal
2. Hard boil the egg and immerse in cold water
3. Make a fish stock from all the off cuts from the fish and any vegetables to hand, garlic, spring onion stalks etc, white wine, and fennel. (or use a stock cube!)
4. De-seed and chop tomatoes, chop onions and garlic, and sauté in the olive oil until soft.
5. Strain off all the fish bits in the stock and give to cats. Pour the liquid stock into the onions and tomatoes and reduce down.
6. Place cod steaks and the halved hard-boiled egg into an open cazuela and place into a very hot oven for about 10 minutes until it's really bubbling.
7. Drop the gnocchi into boiling, salted water for about 3 minutes until they rise to the top.
8. Add the clams to the cod/sauce and cook for a further minute till they open. (throw any that don't open)
9. Add the gnocchi to the cod and sprinkle with chopped parsley and season to taste.

I haven't put exact quantities because this will depend on the number of portions and personal preference. As a rough guide for two use 4 cod steaks and 1 egg.

because it's a particularly flavoursome dish i teamed it up with a robust red from huesca - i didn't even know wine was produced up there till a couple of weeks ago
 
Thanks a lot Stephen. By the way, what is Gnocchi? I did a search and I came up with string of Gnocchis (potato, spinach, etc.). Basically, I figured that it is like a "meat ball", but made out of other stuff. Which Gnocchi are you referring to?

Thanks,

LagunaBeachCA
 
gnocchi is/are little balls of mashed potato held together with flour. i'd think any italian deli would have them as we can even buy them in our normal supermarkets here. you could always use ordinary boiled potatoes though.

tiger, it used to be guiri here too but for the last two or three years they've been using guirufo. i still think san an sounds better as guirilandia!
 
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