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I’m leading here with the ‘before’ picture this time because I think it’s\u00a0a really good illustration of how\u00a0I could\u00a0have\u00a0been seduced by a fillet from something called a\u00a0‘dogfish’ (NOTE: the market prefers to describe it as ‘sand shark’).<\/p>\n
The image is of a one-pound fillet, after it had been halved, lying on our kitchen counter yesterday evening.<\/p>\n
This is how\u00a0it went a little later, sitting atop a round plate in an arrangement of a square, more circles, and what looks like a rectangle<\/p>\n
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I had never cooked sand shark\/dogfish before (‘rock salmon’ in the UK, ‘saumonette’ in France, ‘Palombo’ in Italy). I’m not certain I had ever even eaten it, so when I came across some beautiful, very fresh fillets in a small bucket inside my\u00a0fishmonger’s iced cases Friday afternoon, I decided it was time I started.<\/p>\n
The hardest part of the operation turned out to be researching how to prepare it. I settled on a recipe<\/a>, described as Italian, and with an Italian name (‘Palombo al vino bianco<\/em>‘), possessing\u00a0one of the great virtues of that culture’s cooking tradition: a minimum number of ingredients, to keep from disguising the flavor of the best meat, fish, or vegetables available to the cook.<\/p>\n We were both pretty pleased with the outcome. \u00a0Barry loved it, and\u00a0I have only one reservation, about whether I had saut\u00e9ed\u00a0the fillet just a little too much, but the recipe, which said\u00a0how long to cook it, didn’t describe the thickness of the fillet\u00a0it was dealing with. Since I had absolutely no experience with this fish myself, so I couldn’t draw on my own expertise.<\/p>\n The only way I’m ever going to know is to\u00a0cook\u00a0sand shark\/dogfish\/ground shark\/etc.\u00a0again. I’m sure it’s going to happen.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n There was a dessert.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n
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