RecipeMuncher

More poaching this week. We were supposed to poach a whole salmon trout and decorate it with thinly-sliced cucumbers to resemble scales, like this. I knew a whole fish would be too much for us, so I used fillets. Plus I don’t have a fish poacher, and to poach a whole fish you need a vessel large enough to hold the fish stretched out flat. The purpose of this class is to learn poaching, and cleaning fish is not something I want to learn right now. I know I would flunk out at butchering and (...)