Supper from the sea

The Fish Dinner at Fishguard's Transition Surplus Food Cafe was a great success.

Although I had to make a flying visit to Cardiff during the day (5 hours in the train), I arrived back at 7pm just in time to plunge into the final preparations in the kitchen.
Our guest chef had made a rich bouillabaisse using several varieties of fish which included conger, dogfish, skate and gurnard. This was preceded by a seafood platter consisting of a crab bisque, crab cakes and whelks in pepper sauce. and followed by a choice of desserts (chocolate pots or maple banana icecream)  made by me from ingredients that would otherwise have been thrown away.

Here, the fisherman's wife is giving a demonstration on how to extract the meat from a crab and later on there was a discussion on how people could start to source the local catch for their own use, and thus encourage fishers to bring in non-standard species that are otherwise thrown away or used for bait. That way everyone would benefit and long-distance imports and exports of seafood could be reduced: we  need to Guard our Fish stocks by not relying so much  on the familiar old favourites.

See extra pics for starter and puds. The main was whisked away too quickly for me to capture and anyway my lens kept steaming up.

If you're interested in  how a  shabby old liquor store (itself surplus to requirement) was transformed into the stylish dining place it now is see here  (and other links within)