Tag: sole

8th September 2014

Sole with clams and crushed potatoes

We often go to Dieppe and buy fresh fish there on the quay, walk around the market and have lunch in one of the many restaurants. A favourite place often serves “crushed potatoes’ as a side dish – cooked potatoes crushed with a fork and some cream for smoothness. Back home, I tried my version to accompany a dish of small sole with a clam […]

Fish

20th December 2013

Sole fillets in Normandy style

Sole is a very nice and also fragile flat fish. One of the best ways to prepare it is to poach the filets shortly before serving. I bought mine on the market and the fishmonger offered to clean it for me but I also wanted the rests for a stock and I like to try out the filleting myself.

Fish Seafood

21st August 2013

Dieppe sole

We regularly go to the port town of Dieppe. It I not too far from Paris, especially from our corner in the Yvelines, and you can buy fish almost straight from the boats. We also meet friends there. In French cooking, the name of Dieppe is linked to sole. A fish that once swam in abundance near the coast there. Just across the Channel, the […]

Fish Mushrooms

18th March 2013

Sole from the miller’s wife

This weekend we made another visit to Dieppe at the Normandy coast. It is not a very big town but it has a long history and interesting city centre, as well as a wide gravel beach, cliffs and a fortress. It was our intention to arrive before midday so that we could buy fish from the small stalls tended by the fishermen themselves, but alas […]