Billingsgate Fish Market
For the past few days, I have been setting my alarm to wake up and go to the Billingsgate Fish market. Both Thursday and Friday, the alarm failed to go off causing me to oversleep. Since it only happens from 5:30am to 8:30am, it is for the early risers.
Today, I got my alarm right (the clock time was set to PM instead of AM) and Andrea and I went off.
Going to the market:
Main Sign (under construction wraps)
Sea Snake (repeatedly told this is not an eel)
Live Crayfish
Local Brown Crab
Display of fish with price by box!
Cute hatted man selling fish
3 kilo salmon for Andrea, Fraser and I
Andrea making salmon steaks:
Fish head stock
Tonight we should eat well after scouring the Jamie Oliver cook-book and the web. The market was filled with all the people in London who know how to cut and clean and cook fish. Every fish seller had no idea what to do with the fish (excepting the guy who we bought our salmon from who told us how to cut it).
Grilling the fish heads was the most insane use I found:
I am so glad that you made it to the market. Sounds very interesting—-Eel and all. NOT–Sea Snake. I had to laugh when I saw the brown crabs. Sorry to say they looked like giant ticks> No where near as appitising as the East Coast Blue Crab.
Have fun and will chat soon.
Comment by Kathy — October 25, 2008 @ 8:54 pm