October 21, 2007
Birthday supper
I did very little today - I strolled round to my sister's for cake and fine champagne (courtesy of the anonymous person who sent me a bottle at work... thank you, it was very nice). I posted a few times on here and caught up on reading some other blogs. That's about it.
Anyway, I decided I should eat something that I like for my birthday (apart from cake and champagne) so I'm currently enjoying a meal of cold fish.
I recognise that cold fish isn't to everybody's taste, but it is to mine. I've been heard to say that I moved to Sweden for the herrings, which isn't completely true as there was a rather lovely blonde person involved (with whom I once travelled to San Sebastian).
And what fish!
I have been to Amsterdam a couple of times in the past month and on both occasions I picked up some fish delicacies on my way back through Schiphol.
Smoked halibut, eel and mackerel as well as matjes herring (obviously). I also found a local supplier of really good Polish herring. Delicious with a few new potatoes boiled with dill (Swedish stylee).
Here's the mackerel and the eel.
Look how they gleam!
The polish herrings are damn good, too, although I don't understand the ingredients, which is slightly worrying.
A nice glass of beer and a few shots of vodka to accompany the fish. Excellent.
Posted by dompannell at October 21, 2007 9:45 PM