A wee sashimi

[Joeboy]

Should we have a Eco cooking subforum?

[dan_b]

I thought sashimi was the Japanese style of serving raw fish without rice? Definitely an eco- form of cooking if you don't have to cook

[Joeboy]

It can be meat as well. Although not raw in this case. I was thinking the thin-Ness of the cut. Took me back, will have to add to bucket list and get back over there.

[Mr Gus]

Such is head injury land (that time forgot)..

My wife bought me some Rollmops from Morrisons the other day.

I asked her why, her reply was I remember how much you used to enjoy them at breakfast in Norway back in 2002.

I queried this as I have no recollection of ever eating roll mops.

Every breakfast she said, it was quite disgusting to watch & is seared into my brain.

So why now?
I have no idea, I've walked by them in lidl, morrisons, abroad, everywhere. since.

So I opened one pack & wolfed it down (experimentally of course).
Damn her for being right.

Breakfast next day was roll mops & a granary roll, delicious.
(but i'd have sworn blind in a court that i'd never had them before)

Much underrated fish stock, simple process, essentially on our doorsteps.

IF we are to have an eco sub forum for cooking then it ought be to recommend both cooking implements & foodstuffs, as well as the usual potential footprints & problems within, such as the uptake by everyone in food manufacturing of palm oil et al, the of lately designation (Marketing) of rape seed oil / canola as "healthy" ..its chemically washed through so many processes & centrifuge spun compared to a cold press olive oil, & now commands premium price through re-branding.

Some of all this will be basically re-inputting threads about kit we recommended "elsewhere" & i'm fine with that.

[Stinsy]

My other half doesn't allow that kind of food in the house. Not after the one an only time I cooked kippers for breakfast!

Salmon is the best I'm allowed...

[Mr Gus]

My London office used to get upset when I munched on a tin of mackerel & banned it.

Nowt said if you ordered a stinking Mc-Shi*e's though.

Have FINALLY got my daughter into smoked & grilled mackerel ...that's an epic win.

[dan_b]

I know yaki-tori is "meat on a stick". I thought thinly-sliced meat in that style was was shabu-shabu? Or is that the style of cooking? Been a while since I was last in Japan though!

It can be meat as well. Although not raw in this case. I was thinking the thin-Ness of the cut. Took me back, will have to add to bucket list and get back over there.

[Joeboy]

I have no idea, it's been years for me. I want to take swmbo as there's a shack beside umeda sky building in Osaka i'd like her to experience.

[Mr Gus]

Are there no decent ones in Inverness or similar? I know its not japan but you will find good sushi & others if you look on the google machine, that make for a night out & a bit more knowledge long term.

Being tight, we like to find the small eateries & risk them I don't think I could ever go full blown £20 per small dish with a minimum of £120 per diner "experience" in Cambridge, not till i've sampled the other 10-14 places down side alley's at the very least.

I offered a few summers ago to pay for the nipper to travel to russia & board the famous train that takes you the slow route into china through ulan bator, gobi desert etc, she turned it down (one time offer) silly kid. https://www.seat61.com/trans-siberian-m ... eijing.htm (7 days from Moscow) then a few weeks in Beijing.
Now older she'd love to, but dad only offers once.

So much food, so little time.

[CrofterMannie]

One of the greatest foods ever made was some of the sweet cured herring from "the Orkney Herring Company". Sadly they went bust about 10 years ago and the world became a poorer place.

However, this thread prompted me to Google them and it appears their range has been taken over by a company based in Buckie. Now I just need to find where i can buy a catering sized bucket of the stuff.