Oysters to Oysterage
Garlic butter oysters from the Hanami Japanese Restaurant at the Vancouver Airport. Pan-fried with mushrooms.. not bad.. even better were the gyoza and California roll. A pleasant change to see an airport restaurant managing to serve nice food to a captive market!
A beautiful day on the Aldeburgh seafront.
Dog-friendly town, Aldeburgh.
We did our best to liberate what cheeses we could from the overloaded display at Lawson's Delicatessen: Suffolk Gold, Mrs Temple's blue cheese, St André - a vignotte lookalike - and a wedge of Manchega. Lots of nice looking sheeps' milk cheeses on offer too, and you can fill your bottle of olive oil from a silver keg in the back. Hours of fun.
Here was my welcoming committee to the Butley Orford Oysterage. Some big fat grilled sardines, who followed a very tasty oyster soup - thick and creamy with chopped oysters adrift in its scalding depths.
If you can think of it, they smoke it at Richardson's Smokehouse. Some of their fish in preparation, below.
posted by Rhona McAdam at 3:35 p.m.
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So you're off. Bon voyage and all that. I am enjoying the pictures. Sometimes they don't do it for me if I don't know the people or haven't been there but the last couple of days have been dandy. The final one for today especially appeals to me. Is that fish drying? Whatever - I love the shapes.
Thanks Carla: I added a note to explain (minimally) the fish. They were hanging in front of what I suppose must have been an outdoor smoker, and there was a burly man chopping wood beside them, with smoke pumping out of a nearby wall. All in this lovely Suffolk village with a view of the sea beyond. Best of all there was a sign in the smokehouse shop that said "No Smoking". Not possible to capture all of this (by me anyway) on film.. but I guess that is why we have poetry!
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