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Scorpion of the sea with cuttlefish-“Bolognese”
When I talked to David Kinch of Manresa on the phone the other week he mentioned that he had been doing a Bolognese kind of sauce using cuttlefish instead of meat. It sounded intriguing and caught my attention. I asked him for the particulars, but he just responded, got to run Mikael, talk to you [...]
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Caviar of toro
Some posts ago I wrote about toro-spread with sour dough crackers. It was a great find to make spread from toro, o-toro of course. So simple as a preparation that it made me wonder why I had not thought of it before. And it was good. No, it was not just good, it was simply [...]
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Squids
I like squids, but I am so often, not to say always, disappointed when served them in restaurants. It is really simple, I want them fresh and I want them very gently cooked. Frankly, there are very few places that offer squids to my satisfaction. I only buy them myself when they are in the [...]
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Eating oysters and a simple way to cook them
Not everyone likes oysters. I adore them. A lot of people behave strangely when eating oysters. First they pour lemon and various condiments on the oyster to mitigate the oyster flavor. Then with a glass of wine ready in one of their hands, they take the oyster shell in the other hand, put it to their [...]
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The black art of murdering fish