Can't really recommend this one!
Time was when jellied eels, and oysters, were pleb food. Now they are posh food. I'm partial to smoked eel occasionally but it's expensive and now the last eel catcher in the UK has retired early, they are imported from Holland, albeit still smoked here.
The Man With The Fish Van often brings unusual things, and I was tempted by a fillet of conger eel, which I grilled and ate with toasted almonds and briefly boiled frozen spinach, and a couple of buttered oatcakes.
It didn't taste much different from any other white fish to be honest. The problem was that it was full of bones like hypodermic needles, and unlike normal fish where the bone is structured such that you can usually remove them complete, the bones in the eel were seemingly randomly scattered through the meat and had to come out one at a time. So the annoyance factor was high.
Time was when jellied eels, and oysters, were pleb food. Now they are posh food. I'm partial to smoked eel occasionally but it's expensive and now the last eel catcher in the UK has retired early, they are imported from Holland, albeit still smoked here.
The Man With The Fish Van often brings unusual things, and I was tempted by a fillet of conger eel, which I grilled and ate with toasted almonds and briefly boiled frozen spinach, and a couple of buttered oatcakes.
It didn't taste much different from any other white fish to be honest. The problem was that it was full of bones like hypodermic needles, and unlike normal fish where the bone is structured such that you can usually remove them complete, the bones in the eel were seemingly randomly scattered through the meat and had to come out one at a time. So the annoyance factor was high.