It's my birthday month, and I've been spendy. Yesterday at Costco besides milk for the hubs and poke for me, I also bought socks and undies in my favorite color palette of pinks and tans as well as wine and a large tin of lemon cream panettone. Got home and looked at the dining table filled with stuff I've bought or are in stages of making and my stacks of tinned seafood. Besides the library book on Tin to Table, I'd also been perusing online articles on the topic. Here's my favorite from Serious Eats.
I know that Gabrielle Hamilton used to serve as a bar snack a tin of sardines alongside Triscuit crackers at her restaurant Prune. I like a snack of smoked brislings and if I feel like expending energy, with a small baguette and butter and cornichons. And now, I'm thinking of throwing a tinned fish party.
Drinks will be easy. I'll just tell guests to bring a bottle of their favorite wine.
And what's also going to be hip and stylish about a tinned fish party are easy sides which come from a jar too or as simple to cook as a pot of beans and slicing vegetables for salads.
And mustn't forget condiments!
As I read this, I realize how easy it would be to initiate a tinned fish club and maybe assign people to bring a can like I do for potlucks. However, in surveying my neighbors, a few are not fans of fish. I'll need to still invite them, but encourage them to bring a small wedge of their favorite cheese or a bottle of their favorite wine and drink their meal. In the meantime I ate my own with smoked brislings Cecilia gave me for my birthday, cherry pepper pickle, dill cucumber pickle, baguette and butter, and an arugula and heirloom tomato salad dressed in white balsamic vinaigrette. I liked my meal, but I suppose others would not. I still want to host a conserva party.
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