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Prepping the Pollack While exploring and playing on a delightful beach on Islay I managed to catch this lovely Pollack, total fluke catch really, was doing a demo cast for Liz of https://foragefinefoods.com  when it took the lure. It weighed approx 1.5 - 1.75lb. I'd been thinking (and hoping) of catching and cooking a fair decent fish using this method for a while and I'm really glad I got to do so while on Islay and in such grand company . After dispatching the fish at the beach, gutting and cleaning - all parts discarded became food for other creatures - it felt only fitting to clean it in the very waters it had come from. Ingredients: Pollack (or Pollock) Wild Thyme Wild garlic Sweet Cicely Sorrel Seaweed:  Pepper dulse Carrageen Sea lettuce Sea spaghetti Kelp Poaching liquor: Plum Liquer Alexander root tincture 5 Carrot bitters Method:  1) On returning to the hoose, 5 incisions were made on both sides of the fishes flanks an...

This recipe culminated after a days foraging with friends on Anglesey 2015. I'd never made a ceviche before and after finding myself with the perfect ingredients; seaweed, coastal greens, fish, I did :) Ingredients:  1 fresh Mackerel, filleted, de-boned and skinned        Sea Noodles Juice of 1/2 a Lime/Lemon/Orange (depending on fish size/quantity you may need to up this citrus juice amount) Sea Arrow Grass Sea Purslane Pepper Dulse Red Chilli Hogweed Pinch of Sugar (optional) Method: 1) Put the prepared Mackerel into a bowl with the all the other ingredients except the Thongweed. Stir & place in fridge for 20 minutes. 2) Plate the thongweed, spoon on the ceviche mix, add a little fresh chopped pepper dulse & extra sea purslane (I let the natural pepperiness & saltiness provide the seasoning). S 3) Serve with some fresh, gently steamed, buttered sea beet shoots/flowering shoots. Feel free to play with other ingre...