Fish

[chickenfeet]

I don't know why it should be but the local T&T store (big Asian supermarket) has fish that's as good as and way cheaper than anywhere else around here. Yesterday, skate was half the pice I'd pay anywhere else and it was very good indeed. Similarly, salmon was about 2/3 what it was selling for elsewhere.

The upshot of this was that last night's dinner was raie au beurre noir which remains one of my all time favourite fish dishes. Long may skate continue cheap. (I probably shouldn't be saying this. It may do a monkfish on us).

There is also a decent sized batch of gravlax on the go because one can never have too much gravlax.

On a completely unrelated note, I was watching the Patrice Chéreau Rheingold (Bayreuth, 1990s) last night. It occurs to me that if you are going to cast a soprano as well endowed as the average Wagnerian soprano (in this case Carmen Reppel) as Freia and put her in a seriously low cut dress then the rest of the gods fixation on "Freia's ripe golden apples" takes on a whole new slant.

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[darcydodo]

then the rest of the gods fixation on "Freia's ripe golden apples" takes on a whole new slant.

Given that Freyja wasn't originally the one to have the ripe golden apples, and that's a Wagnerian invention, it's clear to me that Wagner's original soprano must have been similarly endowed and attired! ;)

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

Well, I probably won't be adding to a massive rush on skate. For some reason, it's never really appealed. Nor has monkfish.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

I can. I can have too much gravadlax. Maybe not your gravadlax, perhaps, but generally I much prefer smoked salmon. Now that, I can't have too much of!

[kittenexploring.livejournal.com]

How much variation is there between good and bad smoked salmon to you? I ask as while I like salmon, every smoked salmon I've tasted has seemed a waste of perfectly good salmon.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

My formerly-local fishmonger smokes his own salmon, and it is delicious. Truly wonderful.

I eat a fair bit of unsmoked-salmon, too.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

then the rest of the gods fixation on "Freia's ripe golden apples" takes on a whole new slant.

... entirely intended by Chéreau, I bet.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

(Is the the Boulez-Chéreau Ring?)

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Yes