...so there's this funny little book, filled with the idiosyncrasies of the folks in this part of Canada. When you first arrive and read it, you sorta shrug and shake your head... ...and then one day you pick it up and find you're living like a Nova Scotian! One of the "jokes" is that you know you're a Nova Scotian when you buy fish from the back of a truck!
So here you have our favourite, parked alongside a filling station! The prices are great and the fish, so fresh, we're sure they were caught in the morning! Tonight I dipped haddock in whipped egg whites, rolled it in flour and fried it in browned butter.
@aglennc Interestingly (I suppose...) Lunenburg was built on the salt cod industry! The museum is full of images of taking dory's off the ships to go out for it, and how it was dried and packed in barrels for shipping, etc! Have I eaten it? I don't even care for a freshly rinsed cod! I did, however, eat Solomon Grundy for the first time at a dinner party last week! I'll try anything if I'm in a social setting, and I was amazed at how good it was (the way it was prepared by our hostess!) I kept going back for more (as it was one of the appetizers)!
I see lobster is it a reasonable price too? It is so expensive here! I tried it last year for the first time but was disappointed - having spent so much I thought it was pretty tasteless. Perhaps it wasn't fresh.
@pamknowler Oh wow Pam! Lobster has a "season" up here, and that season actually moves around the province! We've bought it (from a truck!) for as low as $5 a #. The best lobster is kept alive in a cooler on wet towels until it's time to cook it. (Now that's the part I can NOT do!) At breakfast Ken asked me if I wanted to cook a lobster dinner for our upcoming anniversary, but we decided we'd have to invite a local friend to dine with us so he would cook it! It's been a favourite of mine for all my life, but never so inexpensive as it can be here! (And here, we eat all of it...the meat in the claws is actually the best! And what isn't delicious when drenched in melted butter?!)
@Weezilou it does sound good! I wouldn't be able to cook it live either! That's,a great way to get an invite to a dinner party - you do the cooking! Lol!
Great "catch"...fun. Would love to go to Nova Scotia. We cook our Dungeness Crab live...or I should say my husband does. I have to close my ears so I don't hear them scream....I am sure they do!
@eyesmile OMG! I do the same thing! And I'm doing it in the other room at that! I should feel *horrible* about eating them, but once they're cooked, I can get over it! Thanks for your notes, Gena!
Your haddock sounds delicious! Nice to see the fish van as we used to have them here a few years ago but like all good things, they have been replaced with frozen fish at the supermarket!
@aglennc Don't quote me, but I think it starts with pickled herring... She diced it and added mayonnaise and "other stuff". We spread it on crackers and it was divine!
@gaylewood Is there a Tim Hortons??? Better you should ask, "Where in Canada is there NOT a Tim's???) I'm not a fan of their coffee at all, but their iced cappuccinos in the summer as over the moon!
@Weezilou Yes, that's exactly what I should have asked. I end up going to Tim Horton's quite often while I'm here because it's the only place my mother-in-law wants to go for coffee. I do enjoy some of their muffins. Yes, you know you're in Canada if you see a Tim Horton's! :-)
I think that really did cover all of mine! oh! and this! http://365project.org/Weezilou/365/2015-09-23
We'll do the lobster dinner again on the back deck with Billy & David, best friends of ours who live just a few houses up the street!
So this is all I'm writing for the night. 1 AM and a *hugely full* day tomorrow! And the day after! Nighty night!