Friday 30 December 2011
Tuesday 27 December 2011
Ocean sticks..
I used to be addicted to these, but when I started low-carbing I found that these can be quite high in carbs. So do check before buying, because they obviously aren't 100% seafood.
The KiteKat Trout... Fishy Tales Part Three..
At one point in my childhood, I was lucky enough to live in a converted watermill, with a trout stream. My mother is an animal lover, who prefers them to people. So instead of allowing us to fish the trout, my mother fed them on KiteKat. Often, we would return from holiday to find a few missing. Ma would be upset, but probably not as upset as the angler who tucked into the big, fat, trout, tasting of catfood..
My first lobster..
The only saucepan that we owned which was big enough to hold a large lobster, was the one which Ma boiled up the whites in. Not sheets and towels, just handkerchieves and knickers. So my brother and I were quite worried that this lobster would taste of Persil (and I don't mean parsley).
Pa was late home and Ma was so incensed that he'd kept this special meal waiting, that she hit him over the head with the lobster.
When the lobster was pronounced ready, there was the problem of breaking it open. Pa was lucky that he didn't get hit with the rolling pin, which Ma attacked the lobster with.
We were handed a bread board and a meat tenderiser and told to bash it - that remains my preferred stress-busting way of dealing with lobster.
Pa was late home and Ma was so incensed that he'd kept this special meal waiting, that she hit him over the head with the lobster.
When the lobster was pronounced ready, there was the problem of breaking it open. Pa was lucky that he didn't get hit with the rolling pin, which Ma attacked the lobster with.
We were handed a bread board and a meat tenderiser and told to bash it - that remains my preferred stress-busting way of dealing with lobster.
Fishy tales Part Two..
My mother is a cod's roe fan. Myself, I prefer taramasalata. As a child, I remember being presented with a pile of grey cod's roe on a plate, with a mound of lumpy mashed potatoes. I can still remember the taste, like gritty wet sand and the smell. Ma would tuck into her roe happily, to a background noise of two wailing young children. I'm really not sure that forcing children to eat food they just can't bear, is a good maternal strategy. I don't eat cod's roe, liver or tripe at all.
Fishy tales Part One..
When I was a child, my mother would drag myself and my brother into the one remaining wet fish shop in Maidstone, Kent. As soon as my younger brother heard her ask for herrings, he would start screaming and crying. He would do a little war dance on the spot. If the idea was to embarrass our mother into buying something else, it never worked, not once.
I can't remember eating the herrings but I must have done. I was a big fan of rollmops (pickled herrings) and Ma and I would easily scoff a jar in the car on the way home from Sainsbury's. Jamie, Ma's cocker spaniel was a fan too, and once stole mine from my dinner plate by jumping up onto a dining chair while we were gathering knives and forks in the kitchen.
I can't remember eating the herrings but I must have done. I was a big fan of rollmops (pickled herrings) and Ma and I would easily scoff a jar in the car on the way home from Sainsbury's. Jamie, Ma's cocker spaniel was a fan too, and once stole mine from my dinner plate by jumping up onto a dining chair while we were gathering knives and forks in the kitchen.
Saturday 24 December 2011
Affiliation
Discovered affiliatewindow.com which might just might be an earner for the society. I don't want to do crass things like flog the mailing list or baked beans however.
Friday 23 December 2011
Christmas shopping..
Well time to brave the hordes and do the fresh food Christmas shopping..luckily only the dairy produce and veg
Merry Christmas !
Merry Christmas !
Saltrock
Saltrock Ladies Dark Blue 'college Days' Canvas Purse £3.50 Bags, Belts & Wallets Accessories at Saltrock
Bought this for 5.99 now it's 3.50 :(
Bought this for 5.99 now it's 3.50 :(
Lutine tshirt
Lloyd's Yacht Club
Ordered a long-sleeved Lutine sail design tshirt from Lloyds of London Yacht Club :)
Ordered a long-sleeved Lutine sail design tshirt from Lloyds of London Yacht Club :)
Wednesday 21 December 2011
Fish Fight
Not signed up to Hugh's Fish Fight ? Please visit www.fishfight.net
Coastal Gardening Society is signed up and there's a plea to email your MEP atm. Over 50,000 ppl did this is 48 hrs ! Emailed Neil Farage last night actually got an email today. He's against discards too.
Coastal Gardening Society is signed up and there's a plea to email your MEP atm. Over 50,000 ppl did this is 48 hrs ! Emailed Neil Farage last night actually got an email today. He's against discards too.
Hastings December 2011
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Edward & Mary is on right
Hastings Fishermens' Protection Society visit December 2011
On Wednesday 14 December 2011, I met with Yasmin from HFPS. The purpose of the visit was to meet her, see the fishery, look at the vegetated shingle and discuss using Classroom in the Coast for meetings.
Classroom on the Coast will the first classroom and demonstration kitchen attached to a MSC-certified fishery, in the world.
Yasmin took me walkabout on the beach and I visited the Fishermens' Museum.
This tall building is a net shop used for storage. Traditionally they are 8ft square at the base.
The sea from the fishermens' beach
The building in the background is a hotel, being built to mimic the net shops. The ruins at the top of the cliff are the remains of Hastings Castle and can be reached by cliff lift.
This is just one of the bricks regurgitated by the sea on the high water line.
Vegetation above the high water mark on the beach, including ribwort plantain, sea kale, mallow and brambles.
RX89 Kaya on the beach with nets - as you can see it was quite windy.
This photo gives a better view of the new hotel. The white church houses the Fishermens' Museum
RX 256 on the beach, the RNLI Lifeboat station and seagull on the board outside a fishmongers converted from a net shop
Classroom on the Coast will the first classroom and demonstration kitchen attached to a MSC-certified fishery, in the world.
Yasmin took me walkabout on the beach and I visited the Fishermens' Museum.
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Apology
I'm not a natural blogger or diarist so I've this tendency to put the blog on the backburner or just stick a few video clips up, my bad. So I'm about to do a full update
Saturday 3 December 2011
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