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Eat | Drink | Cheap Episode 23 – Holy Mackerel!

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Forget the big boys like salmon and tuna, Simon and Shawn are here to talk little fish and all the gloriously cheap dishes you can make from a humble oily little mackerel.

Questions, comments or corrections? Hit us up at email@eatdrinkcheap.ca

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Music by John Palmer

Show notes and Shout Outs:

The Vancouver Aquarium’s Ocean Wise Guide to Sustainable Seafood: https://seafood.ocean.org/

Simple Grilled Saba: https://www.justonecookbook.com/grilled-mackerel-saba-shioyaki/

Shizuo Tsuji’s Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art: https://www.amazon.ca/Japanese-Cooking-Simple-Shizuo-Tsuji/dp/1568363885

Mackerel Courtbouillon:  https://honest-food.net/catfish-courtbouillon-recipe/

Hank Shaw’s Hook, Line and Supper: https://www.amazon.ca/Hook-Line-Supper-Techniques-Everything/dp/0996944826

The Miracle of Pakistani Tekken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2SQgjYmVYY

Blue Water Cafe: Unsung Heroes: https://www.bluewatercafe.net/unsungheroes.html

Tojo’s (Vancouver, BC)

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Tucked into an unassuming block of office buildings on Broadway, one of Vancouver’s busiest thoroughfares is a Tardis-like temple of Japanese gastronomy run by one of the planet’s most famous sushi chefs. This itamae titan is Hidekazu Tojo and unlike a lot of chefs with half a century of experience tucked under his apron he can be counted on to be at his restaurant nearly every day with a big smile to greet guests.  

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Spot Prawns!

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It was early on a Friday afternoon and despite the breezy grey weather I was soaked to my screaming bones with sweat and cursing Crystal’s Uncle Calvin (who got me into my current situation) under my breath. Brycen (Cal’s son) and I were hauling a very sketchy aluminum rickshaw overflowing with heavy metal crab traps up an impossibly steep gangway. It took both of us to get the beast up and over to Calvin and his new friends; a gang of grizzled old fisherman who did nothing to help us, but sure seem to have opinions on how we’re doing it wrong.

I was trying my very best to look tough in front of this motley collection of bums and pirates, despite my suspicion that there was a better way to go about this whole affair. Of course I was the only one on this particular commercial fishing dock that had no sea legs. Calvin and Brycen both grew up on fishing boats as (I suspect) Cal’s father and maybe even father’s father did. They knew all the moves, the lingo and the unspoken rules of the dock. Me, I was just an extra pair of hands. Read More

Smoked Trout, Two Ways

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Holidays are the balm of body and mind. It’s been a couple days into our long-awaited stay-cation and I’m already starting to feel my soul regenerating and plotting future adventures just like the hedonistic super villain I remember myself to be.

Ironically, one of the first recipes I got to work on between mountain biking trips was a banger I perfected at work. A sublimely simple way to take trout – a tasty and plentiful local river fish – clean up its mealy texture and enhance the profound sweetness buried deep inside. Read More