Friday, 18 July 2014

A squid on the beach


I went to the beach in Brighton today. It was sunny and very breezy. People sat defiant on the pebbles looking out to sea like ships’ figureheads.

I went to Sea Haze, a fishmonger's on the beach. It’s housed in an arch of the promenade above and, after the blustery seafront, it felt cool and cloister-like inside.

There was a neat selection of locally caught fish - stripy mackerel, pink gurnard and a-piano-just-fell-on-my-face plaice, but I went for a squid. I had some chorizo I wanted to introduce it to.

Back at home, I made a fry-up of chorizo, courgette, cooked potato, squid and spinach. It wasn’t pretty, but it was very tasty, the earthiness of the chorizo contrasting nicely with the otherworldliness of the squid. 

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