If you want good cheap fish then you need to head to the coast in England. My mum living in Saffron Walden in north Essex, it is a short hours drive to the Island of Mersea in the muddy estuary of the River Colne, near Colchester. Australians don’t appreciate properly this kind of muddy coastline preferring golden sands. But this is coast with sole and bloody amazing native oysters. Perhaps my health is returning or I draw the strength from […]
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Simple dover sole at home
Together with turbot, seabass and diver caught scallops, dover sole has been at the top of my culinary hit list. As a young journalist it was the thing to order in the private clubs of the industrial midlands and London clubland. At the time they cost over ten quid – the equivalent of the $50 main course. They would be cooked to order and then skinned and boned at the table. We asked the fishmonger to skin our seven quids […]