Fish for dinner in a country kitchen in Connecticut

here’s a standing order for shad to be on the dinner table every time I come to visit Ed and Donald in Old Lyme Connecticut!

The fresh waters of the Connecticut River are warming, and the lady at the local fish shop rang Donald this morning saying the first shad of the season had been caught at 6.30 am today. How’s that for timing?

Watercolour effect - Early Spring display of colour from the daffodils and magnolia

Fields of golden daffodils

Hard to believe my last visit was recorded in Donald’s Visitors Book dated eleven years ago. Pity he’s recently discarded hand-written records prior to 2005 of what he served his guests, so there’s no knowing for sure what else might have been on the menu on that last visit – probably a home-baked apple pie, and I definitely recall the sorrel soup because as Edward was cutting the sorrel in the herb garden, I was collecting firewood in the forest, and a tick in my testicle at the same time!

Donald with the Visitors Book going back with an entry of mine from more than 20 years

Shad, filleted and its zillion bones removed - fresh from the Connecticut River this morning

View out from the kitchen where the shad is marinating in white wine, and the piecrust is being rolled out

 

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