Fish Friday

Taste of the Sea, Glasnevin

In the last couple of months there has been a great little addition to the northside of Dublin the guise of Taste of the Sea up in Glasnevin. I have been planning a visit for weeks and come hell, high water or car-clamps, I was not going to miss the chance to finally visit today.

Whitebait

Taste of the Sea offers a great selection of seafood and related items for both the budding chef and those whole live in fear of cleaning, filleting and cooking anything vaguely related to a fish. The variety of fish is very impressive - monkfish tails, swordfish steaks, frozen octopus (adult and baby), crab claws, scallops, whitebait - many of which have useful little suggestion recipes to go with them. The unique selling point for the shop however is that all this comes freshly frozen, which brings advantage to those who want to shop for the days ahead. It also allows the shop give such a wonderful variety where smaller fresh fish stores cannot due to a smaller demand for quirkier items.

Octopi!

In my extra lazy state today, I decided to give one of the pasta dishes a whirl - the fagottini with salmon - slow fried up in the pan. (Roughly) following the recipe suggestion I popped in a little chilli and ricotta at the end.  I fried off a single king scallop to sit on top.  It did the trick and I'll be going back for more!