i made dinner for my mum and myself last night. pan-fried ocean trout on mashed pea-potato, with beansprouts in a mirin-soy-sesame dressing.
confoundingly, the last few of times i bought trout or salmon, the pieces of fish came sans skin. where did the skin go? did the fishmongers think they were doing me a favour? did they sell the skin to those nori roll places that do the fried skin and mayonnaise maki?
[ momentary lapse in blogging as i salivate and think about a salmon skin maki ]
did they save it for themselves so they could prance around at home draped in nothing but fish skin?
it’s just, peppered and salted and fried… well you know. and i can’t even continue.
so. eating the crisp, raw beansprouts last night made me reminisce about the stir-fried beansprouts we used to have at home, while growing up. they were cooked until transparent and limp, and tasting faintly of, dare i say it, rancid water. the saving grace was the bits of salted fish tossed in. all those plates of dinnertime flaccid turned me off beansprouts for years and years. such a pity.
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looks superb. is that black sesame on the bean sprouts? more crunch. I too enjoy the salmon skin maki… mmmm.
plenty more crunch, because in fact it is a sprinkling of furikake from spiral foods: a mix of sesame seeds, nori sea vegetable, shiso leaves and sea salt.
I wonder if they sell furikake. I’ve been looking for it since I had sushi from Broadway way back in February
Try the chinoise supermarket in World Square, they have whole aisle of Japanese goodies. They also sell the savoury sprinkles in all sorts of crazy flavours.
Bean sprouts was a favourite of ours too. Mum always got me to tail the bastards though, long hour of pinching off rancid tendrils. I like it with the salted fish too.
ugh.. you know i didn’t read your comment properly bowb… and was thinking while i saw sea salt that i need to get some furikake. me a silly one.
I love salmon skin! I too would’ve been distraught at its disappearance. It that not the whole point of eating salmon but for the crispy skin? That’s like having roast pork without the crackling!
Saffron – If you get tired of Spiral Foods of World Square =) I get my furikake from Thai Kee, Market City (it sells everything does it not?). Last time I spent 10min trying to decide which one to take home (they have about 20 varieties from memory).