Fish Man took a week off recently and oh how we missed him! Fortunately, he came back refreshed and with a van packed full of gorgeous things for us to enjoy.
After our enforced fish free week, I went a bit mad, and bought some tiny little crabs and a large fillet of rosada (a firm white fish) for us to enjoy.
The crabs were simple to deal with – a good rinse then plunged into boiling, salted water. You need to be quite heavy handed with the salt as they are usually cooked in sea water. In the absence of this up our mountain, a little extra salt goes a long way. After about two minutes they will turn a darker pink colour, drain them and then put into a bowl of iced water to stop them cooking further. It´s the same process that you would use for cooking prawns.
These were then chilled and served as a starter with alioli and lemons. It looks like a huge portion, but there is not a lot of meat inside these little critters. The fun is in chomping, slurping and licking your fingers!
The rosada was treated equally simply. I sautéed red peppers with onions and courgettes until soft, lay the fish fillets over the top and seasoned everything. After covering the pan with a lid I let them cook through gently for about five minutes (until they were no longer opaque), then squeezed plenty of lemon juice over.
Healthy, light and delicious…all we needed was the sound of the waves lapping against the shore.
Chica Andaluza 
Simply sensational Tanya!
🙂 Mandy
Thanks Mandy 🙂
PLEASE invite me over for lunch! 😀 YUM! I’d need you to do all the hard crabby work for me though! You know it took me a few seconds to realise that the sieve you have is like my aunty’s… she got hers from Ikea 😀
I´d love to have you over for lunch…and I´d do all the “crabby” work for you 🙂 My sieve came from good old Ikea too – I love it, it fits over the sink!
You truly know how to eat – so refreshing to see the simplicity of truly good food. Wonderful
Thanks Roger – good ingredients mostly don´t need too much messing around with!
That looks so good – perhaps I can find some in the Boqueria tomorrow 😉
I bet you find all sorts of wonderful things….looking forward to hearing about your trip!
Gotta love the fish Man! I’ve never had those little crabs here though… I’m going to have to find them!
We´re lucky with Fish Man…you just never know what he´s going to sprurise us with! Hope you manage to track them down.
Those crabs looks so tasty! I want some 🙂
I´ll save you a few next time!
Wow, Tanya! That was some dinner that you served up! And “fabulous” is about the only way to describe the way you prepared that fish. I have to find me a Fish Man.
I´ll see if he can make a trip to Chicago!
Just wonderful!
Thank you – I bet you have pretty similar meals where you are too 🙂
Wow…look at that platter of fish! Nothing can compare with that freshness! I love how you prepared it and the side of peppers and zuchinni… Totally yum!!
We´re lucky…Fish Man goes to the market in Malaga early in the morning for the catch from the night before and it´s being eaten by us at lunch time!
All looks soooo delicious!
It was wonderful!
Mmmm, crab boil! I’m on the way over, what should I bring?
A hungry belly – I have napkins!
What a delicious looking crabby lunch! That must have made up for your fish man’s week off. And the fiddly finger-licking makes it even tastier.
The fiddly finger licking is the best part – I love inter active food!
This is fantastic. You know we hauled shrimp back from New Orleans. Just have to. I love the idea of a salt bath. And these are just making me want seafood! Great photos.
Aah – thanks Greg! I wanted to bring Dublin Bay prawns back from Dublin last year…but Big Man put his foot down 😦
Fresh fish and seafood…so jealous!
We´re spoilt here…but there are plenty of lovely things that we can´t get too 😦
Each day I marvel over your skill and versatility. I burned my toast this morning and all I had to do was put it in the toaster. I am not a cook, but I would love to be one.
Aah – thanks. But you´ll see that most of my dishes are fairly simple and don´t really follow recipes!
That’s funny since I’m always thinking, “That looks hard.”
sadly, we don’t get crabs here as I would love to munch on them with some chilled white wine 🙂
Hopefully you got to eat lots of things like this went you went to France!
Fresh seafood done simply is always the best as far as I am concerned. It must have been a delicious meal.
It was Karen – fresh, tasty and simple!
Oh my goodness…that looks like one crazy good gluttonous time! 😉
Gluttony is good every so often…right?!
Oh yum — just pass me that napkin, would you please (or serviette…) Mmmm!!
I get confused – we say both here but I think in the US a napkin is for a baby´s botty?! Either way….I´ll save you some next time!
Wow what a feast!
can fishman come to Jordan? Pleaaaaaaaase?
I´m sure he´d love to – at least he wouldn´t go hungry on the way!
it looks so good and delicious
it so wonderful ..