Sardines?? What on earth do we do with sardines??
If you're not familiar with the Monterey area you might not know that this area was once filled with sardine canneries. Now there's nothing to see of the former canning economy except for "Cannery Row," an area which we have yet to visit.
They were big and not at all like the kind you imagine coming from a tin. The problem for us was that they came whole. So we had to do the prepping in order to eat them (and apparently you need to eat them right away as they don't freeze well). A lot of people (including a lady picking up her fish at the same time we were) swear that grilled sardines taste awesome. We, however, do not own a grill. That left us with a few alternatives. The chef decided to try a sardine stew (the pictures online instilled little confidence, but the basics of the recipes we found were good).
I'm trying a new method of video sharing here, so bear with me. I took several videos of the kids prepping the sardines with us. (And when I say us, I mean the chef, as I did not touch the things.) I have uploaded 3 videos to youtube (Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.) of Toby taking us through the steps of cleaning and prepping the sardines. I hope they come through if I embed them here. **
** There may be some people out there that can't follow the videos here and will need to view the videos from the links above. Just keep in mind that I have no idea how to monitor the OTHER videos that show up on the youtube page alongside mine and what pops up after my video is shown. Please don't click on anything that looks sketchy, and don't tell me what other videos are linked to mine. I don't really want to know. I've set the privacy level on my youtube videos to "private" so only the people with these links can see them. Hopefully that keeps things under control. But if I get a lot of spam or random views from sketchy strangers I'm going to take them down. Here's to taking the "next step" on the Internet highway.
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