Saturday 2 February 2008

10 kippers and some more to post

Big up to Andy Race. A group trip to Mallaig to buy a some postcards and a new tea towel stumbled into his ferryside warehouse. On the fish counter were a few wet looking fillets. A bit of haddock, a bass, some trout. Two roadbuilders stocked up for fridays supper.

Mallaig is famous in my family for kippers, so the instruction was to post my dad some kippers. With 10 people in the house, kippers for breakfast is a given, so we asked Andy for 10. Straight from the smoker ( oak, pine and peat ) he brings out a whole rack. The shop suddenly smells of laphroaig.

A half kilo bag of smoked salmon scraps, a mound of haddock, smoked and not and 3 kilos of mussels found their way out of the shop too. We'll wait and see what Stephen and Astrid do with the fish, but the smoked stuff is stunning.

And he'll post his smoked goodies pretty much anywhere.

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