That I love seafood seems pretty well established. Here are my some of favourite dishes with their recipes in no specific order of preference. Seafood Pizza Everyone loves pizza, that’s more or less a given. I do enjoy all types, will probably give the vegetarian ones a miss I guess except a well made Margherita pizza. But if I had to pick just one as my absolute favorite it’s going to have to be a seafood pizza. Squid rings, prawns, fish chunks, crab or lobster meat, the possibilities are endless.…
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Seafood Memories – Part 2
My mom and aunt ran a beauty parlor when I was just a toddler. They definitely were not professionally qualified but I guess they figured they do make up so the rest was just an extension thereof. They did one smart thing though and hired Mary a qualified hair and makeup specialist. The parlor suffered a fairly quick and painless death but Mary became a family friend and there were trips to her home in Wadala very frequently. For a 6 year old boy turning more and more carnivorous everyday,…
Read MoreQuestions & Answers – Part 2
We left off last week with these 2 questions to be answered for ourselves before really diving into this business ‘all in’. Do we really see ourselves doing this 5-8 years from now? Why are we really doing this? The second question was the one that really needed to be answered. Sure we loved seafood and wanted much better quality and we wanted variety. This “settling” for inferior quality and lack of options had to stop. We believed that there were more people out there who didn’t realise that they…
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My earliest recollection of seafood is of mom making fried fish & chips. Of course this only happened after haggling like crazy over like Rs.5 or Rs.10 with our “machhiwali” Suman. White or Silver Pomfret were, by default, huge and cheap! Still, haggling, I always felt, was them having a relationship of some kind. Suman would then take the Pomfret to the balcony behind the kitchen to clean and fillet. This was something I’d always stand and watch her do. It was mesmerizing to me back then. It still is…
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Jamie Oliver’s simple yet oh so delicious recipe was introduced to me by my brother actually way back in 2003 or 2004 and I instantly fell in love with it. Back home, I decided I wanted to try my hand at it and went about procuring all the ingredients. Realization dawned rather painfully that I had taken for granted that I would find all the ingredients I was looking for easily. Pune made it hard! Back then anyway. So instead of John Dory I had to settle for Basa (yeah…
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