Marinaded mackerel

(serves 3 people)
3 large mackerel, filleted
3/4 pint dry white wine (425 ml)
1 onion, thinly sliced
1 carrot, thinly sliced
2 tablespoons olive oil
A large bouquet garni *
1 teaspoon brown sugar
Salt
* Bouquet garni—consisting of celery leaves, (more…)

Mackerel

An under-estimated fish if ever there was one. It has a bad reputation with older generations, who were suspicious of its career as a scavenger (it is all right for humans to eat the flesh of other creatures, but wrong apparently for the poor mackerel).
It is a sobering thought, in these days of high prices, to read of Cornish fishermen having to dump mackerel catches hack in the sea because nobody will buy them,
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