Holy mackerel

[kitewithfish]

I just cleaned, gutted, and baked three small mackerel on a bed of new potatoes, for no good reason other than I had them and felt like it.

Cooking was such a chore when I grew up - we hardly ever cooked fresh veggies and foods, and I never felt like I knew what I was doing.

It's been a long slow slog, acquiring the skill and experience and tools and ingredients, to get to the point where it's just easy. Where I could go to the store, grab some fish that haven't been filleted and chopped into bits, and just... bake them. Because I felt like it. And then have dinner and lunches for a couple of days, without it being a big deal.  

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[recently_folded]

Wow, mackerel. I haven't eaten them for years (long ago moved away from their waters) but many memories of taking a rowboat out into the harbor to drift about and catch dinner when we didn't have money for much else. They're still pretty deeply embedded in my sense of How Dinner Should Taste.

[kitewithfish]

They are delicious - I am a late in life convert. I have never caught one, tho, just got them from the store.