I'm looking forward to today's dinner. The Fox is making us a salmon kedgeree. We haven't had a salmon one for ages. As you know, we usually have a kipper & egg one. Occasionally we'll go mad & have a smoked salmon or even a more traditional smoked haddock one. But today it's salmon, made with the real stuff ie out of tin.
Like most people of my generation & older salmon comes out of a tin. Before the days of fish farming, salmon was prohibitively expensive so unless you were very rich or caught your own, fresh salmon never appeared on the table. I still find it very strange to think these days fresh salmon is cheaper than cod or haddock, the cheaper fish of my youth. Even now, the real taste of salmon, as with tuna, is from a tin, though the fresh stuff does now appear on our table from time to time. Indeed on Friday we had poached salmon in an egg & lemon sauce. Delicious it was too, but it just wasn't "real" salmon.
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