Boston fishmongers versus Whole Foods

I like Whole Foods, I’m lucky because when I came here I didn’t know anything about hormones in the food or pesticides and I began to buy here because it’s really convenient from my house.

The closets supermarket to my home is Whole Foods, all the food is fantastic and you don’t have to worry if the chicken has hormones detrimental to your health or not because the answer is not. I have never paid attention to this matter because in Europe the use of the certain hormones to make young animals gain grow faster is regulated by law and in theory you are safe that this hormones help to developed a cancer in your body.

After this introduction praising Whole Foods, even the fishmonger is good, something is missing there. I think maybe it’s because I’m use to have a huge variety of fish in Spain and the option to buy a whole fish, with the head and bones. It’s nothing wrong with the filets but when you put a sea bass in the oven the flavor is going to be richer if you cook it with the head, if somebody is thinking that is disgusting, don’t do it, because you don’t eat the head.

After have this conversation with a Spanish friend, she did a web research and she found two fishmongers as we know in Spain. New Deal Fish Market is one of them, in 622 Cambridge St, Cambridge, and the other one is Courthouse Seafood at 498 Cambridge Street, East Cambridge.

I’ve visited the first one and my experience couldn’t be better the variety of fish is incredible and the quality as well. I bought sea bass and swordfish, both of them full of flavor; it has been the first time that I ate a really good fish since I’m here, I mean a flavor fish not hidden under a rich sauce. I have to go to Courthouse Seafood because is a restaurant too and maybe because the Portuguese roots I'm going to eat European style fish.

If you want to know the recipe of the sea bass let me know and I’ll write it down.

Japanese food

What can I say, I’m addicted to it, I love it, and I think that I could be able to eat every day sushi and makis (rolls). My new city is offering me a lot of places to do it; the most convenient is Yummy Express near my home. I like this place, the cookers don’t speak English but the woman outside is really nice and explain to you the options in their menu. I’ve eaten from the Lunch buffet (Chinese), I definitely like it, but the best thing is the price and I’ve eaten hand rolls, fantastic and they make them at the moment that you ask for them.

At Cambridge Street there is another Japanese restaurant Mai Soba ,I have to try this one because every night is full of people and the dishes that you can see through the windows looks really nice. (Pending business)

And of course the fabolous and marvellous Whole Foods, with fresh shusi and Makis at any time of the day.

All the time that I eat Japanese food I remember when I did Makis for first and only time, the first roll was a disaster but the next ones were fantastic, a very professional ones. I made them with Iberian Jam, anchovies, feta, avocado, and now I can’t remember more ingredients. I think that I left my bamboo rolling mat in Uk where I’ve been living for the last three years and a half, now I have the perfect excuse to visit the Chinese Distric to buy another one and buy nori, rice, vinegar and who knows what can I find there.

My first hand made rolls.