Yesterday at the grocery store by my apartment, I became mesmerized by the display in the seafood section:
I had only seen fish this huge in aquariums before, never available for you to purchase and take home to cook for dinner.
The attendant saw me gawking and came over to assist me, so I explained I was just looking because the fish was so big. She told me its Korean name and my dictionary says it is a flatfish. I think she said the flatfish is Korean, and these beauties are Norwegian:
I stood there for a while just gaping at the fish. I really loved the black and shining silver squiggle stripes on the one, but I really can't get over that there are fish so beautiful out there.
I wonder how they taste. I bought a potato peeler earlier this week, and the diagram on the packaging shows you can use the other edge of the tool for scaling fish. I guess I could try cooking one sometime.
But for someone who still often botches easy things like omelets, trying to cook fish like that might turn out rather tragically. For now I'll stick to ogling.
I had only seen fish this huge in aquariums before, never available for you to purchase and take home to cook for dinner.
The attendant saw me gawking and came over to assist me, so I explained I was just looking because the fish was so big. She told me its Korean name and my dictionary says it is a flatfish. I think she said the flatfish is Korean, and these beauties are Norwegian:
I stood there for a while just gaping at the fish. I really loved the black and shining silver squiggle stripes on the one, but I really can't get over that there are fish so beautiful out there.
I wonder how they taste. I bought a potato peeler earlier this week, and the diagram on the packaging shows you can use the other edge of the tool for scaling fish. I guess I could try cooking one sometime.
But for someone who still often botches easy things like omelets, trying to cook fish like that might turn out rather tragically. For now I'll stick to ogling.
