Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

fred - at least Matt is almost invariably amusing as well as being pointed

as i said yesterday, Matt is invariably amusing ...... love the above ...... well posted fred :-)

Who is patronising?

8-)

That is my role.

Big head .

i patronise my local fishmonger, not you

I don't have a local fishmonger to patronise. Not seen one for years. Nor butcher, baker or candlestick maker.

fishmongers are certainly few and far between, and good ones even more so
one of the problems is that this country has always thought of fish as a cheap alternative to meat and are relatively unwilling to pay for quality

personally i am very happy indeed to pay good money for quality, and fortunately my local fishmonger supplies same - eg really fine and fresh hake steaks last night, and yes you do see the whole fish from which they were cut!


independent butchers are slowly making a comeback - my fishmonger is also a trained butcher as it happens - as are artisan bakers

I suppose we can thank Tesco , Sainsbury's etc for the situation really , they get into areas and knock out the locals . They all seem to be going smaller now .

I'd certainly recommend Brixham Seafood who have a store on eBay:

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/BRIXHAM-SEAFOOD

Call Adam for a chat and discuss with him what you want. If you place an order it will arrive by courier the following day, packed with ice in a sealed polystyrene box. It's best to minimise the delivery charge by increasing the volume of your order.

Most of my orders are for a stock of freshly caught lemon soles. In one of the orders I received an absolutely massive live crab. Fortunately, we did have a big aluminium pot to cook him in! Delicious!

Where is your fishmonger C? I like dover sole, normally buy from M&S but expensive. I bought some lemon soles from Waitrose yesterday. Lunch today.
I also need some decent bones for my german shepherds. Waitrose is on the expensive side for them..:) They love lamb shanks, raw of course.

Marlow

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for lobsters, whitstable oysters (especially) and perhaps crabs i shall have a look at West Whelks in Whitstable
They also deliver overnight

we don't even own a freezer except at the top of the fridge and would only/always buy fresh on the day choosing what looks best at the time

I guess that must be Phil Bowditch. Its about 15 mins from me, via Cookham. Maybe I'll pop along and see.

quite right
go to his website for some good recipes too - they all work :-)

I usually try that trick of asking for some bones and offcuts for the dogs,
they're a fraction of the cost ie: if you ask for spare ribs etc and there is
quite a lot of meat left on the bone, they all go nicely with a can of tesco
lager with a lemonade top...

Same with our fish&chip shop, I ask for some fish offcuts for the cats,
surprising how much fish is left on the tails.

I might even get a dog and a cat one day!!


WOOF WOOF!!....MEOW!!

My wife was given a jar of Ayam 'Rendang Curry Paste' from a regular dog walking friend, back from their summer spell in their French holiday home and obviously acquired from a French supermarket. She was told to look on Ayam's web site for a recipe and strongly recommended to give it a try - which she duly did.

The resultant curry was absolutely excellent being tasty, spicy, sweet and pea-nutty too. Here's the Ayam web site which shows you lots of their different pastes and recipes:

http://www.ayam.com/curry-pastes.html

now try it on the dog :-)

just as long as you don't try the dog in it.

:-)

Apple in talks to buy Mclaren

I wonder what Jenson Bramley, sorry Button, has to say about this?