Posted by on May 27, 2016 | 10 comments

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Anchovies at our fish market…num, num.  Toss them in flour, salt and pepper and sauté in olive oil until crisp, about 5 minutes.

Well, here in our little ville there is going to be an anchovy festival on June 1st and I will personally take some candid shots of the goings-on and get them to you in a blog next week if I can balance the camera.  Mama always thought “candid” meant “candied” and that the photographs were somehow going to become desserts!  Duh…

There seem to be a lot of those things, like Gladly, the Cross-Eyed Bear, which was actually “Gladly, the cross I’d bear” from a hymn in mama’s church long ago.

So funny, my mama’s mistakes.

And she also thought that Welsh Rarebit was Welch Rabbit but could never find the animal in the cheese, haha.

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Do you see any ears in this photo?  Or whiskers, haha?

But, I digress.

We love fish around here, mainly because there is a lot of it and her are some of the beauties in our fish market in a little town nearby called Port Vendres.

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These guys make a great soup, also in Italy where it sometimes has broccoli in it.

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Sea scallops called coquilles St. Jacques, called that because of this from Transparent Blog (thank you).

Saint Jacques or Saint James was one of the 12 Apostles and the scallop shell is the symbol of the crusaders of the Order of St. James, which was founded to protect pilgrims headed to Santiago de Compostela. The story goes that St. James saved a drowning knight’s life and the knight came out of the water covered in scallop shells. It is also said that the body of St. James, himself, was lost in the ocean on the way to Spain for burial and later washed ashore covered in scallops. There are also other versions. In any case, the order and the French dish were named in his honor.

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These are little red rock fish in back and dorade in the foreground, a kind of sea bass.

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These are the cheeks of the lotte, or monkfish in the USA.  Delicious sautéed in olive oil and served with lemon.

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And this is a nice bar (another kind of sea bass) with roast potatoes and rosemary.

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And my favorites–sardines!  But of course, I only get a little bite of the anthros’ dinner!

Still, kitties and fish are like love and marriage, right?