Sunday, July 31, 2011

A visit to the fish market

We picked up the girls from grandma's house yesterday, where they had spent the night, playing with with the dog and running all around her carpeted house.

On the way home we stopped at the farmers market fruit stand, where we picked up some ripe peaches and plums.  They tried some grapes there and played with the corn too.

After that we went to the Vietnamese fish market which has tanks upon tanks of live, fresh fish.  Ilsa was fascinated by the tank of whiskered catfish, snoozing on top of each other, blissfully unaware of what happened above them.  We selected a nice black striped bass, and had it de-finned and gutted.  When we got home it got a bath in lemon juice, honey, and olive oil along with some Hawaiian sea salt, before charring for 20 minutes on a hot grill.  Delicious and fresh.

Today the girls are getting ready for a pool party.