Flipper pie anyone?
You couldn't call this dinner could you???
Thanks for a good response to our fishy theme tonight. I鈥檒l sort out the best of the puns and put them on the blog tomorrow.
Playing Seal tonight got me curious about whether seal meat was still eaten. My first internet search just brought up a load of references about searing meat to seal in the juices. Several of you texted in to say that Seal was still considered a delicacy In Newfoundandland and Karen Murray e-mailed to talk about Flipper Pie.
I found a guy who has an entire website devoted to seal recipes which includes the famous flipper pie. With such strong public opinion against the practice of seal culling I imagine he would struggle to get folk to come round to his place for dinner.
Even if you are fine with the idea of eating something so cute and adorable as a seal, it still doesn't sound the most appetising dish. Even on paper it sounds disgusting:
"Cut all fat and slag from flippers, place them in a deep dish and add enough boiling water to cover, add vinegar and set aside to cool, then wipe dry with a paper towel and place in baking pan or large casserole dish. Add pepper and salt
to taste, cover with sliced onions and sliced fat pork, dribble the screech over the contents."
Cutting the fat and the slag was bad enough, but I would have to draw the line at dribbling the screech over the contents.
I couldn鈥檛 bring myself to eat it but then again I wasn鈥檛 quite so squeamish when I was travelling the world with Scottish Passport eating fish head curry and sheep鈥檚 intestines.
I suppose the main difference was that it was work and I was being paid to do it. Nowadays I鈥檓 a bit more fussy about what I put on my fork.
I鈥檝e just been looking online at restaurants to book for my up and coming holiday to New York. A good place to start is the guide which lists the top places to eat in the city. Babbo, an Italian restaurant in the West Village, features in their top ten.
The menu sounds intriguing and I can鈥檛 make my mind up whether to start with the 鈥渨arm tripe alla parmigiana鈥 or the 鈥減ig foot Milanese鈥. Then for main course it鈥檚 a toss up between 鈥済oose liver ravioli鈥 or 鈥渓ambs鈥 brain francoboli with lemon and sage鈥
I suppose a cheese and tomato pizza will be out of the question?
