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woodbutcher

Veteran
Location
S W France
I've never heard of brill and Regal Fish don't sell it. They do sell turbot as whole fish but you have to buy 1.5Kg minimum due to the size of the whole fish (so I wonder why they don't cut it smaller?). Oh yeah, and its £21 a kilo.

Those Basa skinned & boned fillets at £7.50 a kilo are looking to be quite a bargain!

They have quite a few fish I've never tried... Hake, Monkfish, Ray, Coley, Ling, Whiting, Whitebait, Halibut, Turbot, Lemon Sole, Redfish, Catfish, Red Snapper, Swordfish, Tilapia. Anybody recommend trying any of those? Some are quite pricy, which is why I haven't tried them.
Coley, Ling and Tilapia should be the cheapest and to be fair, have the least amount of flavour . On the other hand they a great for making fish curry . Do you cook with a wok ? if so experiment with them and maybe fresh ginger/garlic and coconut cream etc etc .
On the other hand , Halibut, turbot, lemon sole are delicious and expensive as for Swordfish steaks so so nice but in my opinion the fish should be left in the sea !
 

PeteXXX

Cake or ice cream? The choice is endless ...
Photo Winner
Location
Hamtun
Just back from a nice walk with MrsPete. I popped into the local shop, as I had the mask, to pick up 30 squid from last nights lottery win, and purchase a brace of Magnum ice creams... 🍦
 
I've never heard of brill and Regal Fish don't sell it. They do sell turbot as whole fish but you have to buy 1.5Kg minimum due to the size of the whole fish (so I wonder why they don't cut it smaller?). Oh yeah, and its £21 a kilo.

Those Basa skinned & boned fillets at £7.50 a kilo are looking to be quite a bargain!

They have quite a few fish I've never tried... Hake, Monkfish, Ray, Coley, Ling, Whiting, Whitebait, Halibut, Turbot, Lemon Sole, Redfish, Catfish, Red Snapper, Swordfish, Tilapia. Anybody recommend trying any of those? Some are quite pricy, which is why I haven't tried them.

Hake is lovely. It's used a lot on Spanish cooking. It's delicate in texture and flavour and quite fragile to handle, so best to cook it simply. I like to do it either steamed in a foil parcel (I cook a lot of fish that way) or rolled in streaky bacon or cured ham with a couple of sage leaves tucked inside.

I adore monkfish. It's very firm, so a good candidate for fish stews / curries / kebabs, but I like to roast it in the oven, giving it the old "wrap it in bacon" thing again.

Coley, ling and whiting are your all-round basic white fish very much in the mode of haddock and cod, though the flakes are somewhat smaller. Good to use in curries, fish pies etc, or battered and deep fried a la chip shop. It's cheaper because it's seen as less desirable (coley can look slightly greyish when raw) but there's nothing wrong with it at all.

Lemon sole is lovely just pan-fried in butter. It's firmer than plaice but not quite as firm as Dover sole, which is a tad more pricey. Worth it if you like the latter but can't be doing with coughing up the cash.

Ray is skate - so you eat the wings, well, scrape the flesh off the cartilage. Again, I absolutely love this fish, it's just so good. Cook's tip is to oven bake the fish with butter in a non-stick roasting ton rather than attempting to pan fry - just makes life a LOT easier.

Halibut is a big flat fish, good too, but even better cold smoked. :hungry:
 

Kempstonian

Has the memory of a goldfish
Location
Bedford
Hake is lovely. It's used a lot on Spanish cooking. It's delicate in texture and flavour and quite fragile to handle, so best to cook it simply. I like to do it either steamed in a foil parcel (I cook a lot of fish that way) or rolled in streaky bacon or cured ham with a couple of sage leaves tucked inside.

I adore monkfish. It's very firm, so a good candidate for fish stews / curries / kebabs, but I like to roast it in the oven, giving it the old "wrap it in bacon" thing again.

Coley, ling and whiting are your all-round basic white fish very much in the mode of haddock and cod, though the flakes are somewhat smaller. Good to use in curries, fish pies etc, or battered and deep fried a la chip shop. It's cheaper because it's seen as less desirable (coley can look slightly greyish when raw) but there's nothing wrong with it at all.

Lemon sole is lovely just pan-fried in butter. It's firmer than plaice but not quite as firm as Dover sole, which is a tad more pricey. Worth it if you like the latter but can't be doing with coughing up the cash.

Ray is skate - so you eat the wings, well, scrape the flesh off the cartilage. Again, I absolutely love this fish, it's just so good. Cook's tip is to oven bake the fish with butter in a non-stick roasting ton rather than attempting to pan fry - just makes life a LOT easier.

Halibut is a big flat fish, good too, but even better cold smoked. :hungry:
I have copied & pasted this into Notepad for future reference! (Also the reply from @woodbutcher).. Thank you both.

So ray is skate... well I have tried that and I wasn't keen - but I didn't realise you're supposed to scrape the flesh off the cartilege! The taste was ok though, so maybe I'll try it again. I was at the time getting my fish from a different supplier and I had ordered Sea Bass, but I got skate instead. Two huge wings. I threw the other one away!

Lemon sole is seasonal but they do frozen boned fillets (skin on) for £20 per kilo. Swordfish is £18 for a 5 portion pack (about 900 grams). Coley, ling and whiting are all around the £11.50-£12.50 per kilo, as is Hake. Halibut is just about the most expensive fish they do at £28/Kg.

I'm going to have a job deciding what to get next time!
 
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