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Ingredients: Sardine s, extra virgin olive oil, salt.
Les Mouettes d’Arvor Boneless Whole Sardines in Extra Virgin Olive Oil
$14.00
We’re big fans of sardine fillets. It’s not that we don’t care for skin and bones, we eat all that stuff. But you get a very different chew from a fillet than you get from a whole fish. It’s true of small whole mackerel as they compare to mackerel fillets and it’s true of sardines, as well. Neither is better or worse, those are quantitative evaluations. Each is different and has its own set of characteristics. We find they are better suited to any application where the meats will be fork-mashed, the finished product just looks better. And we like them for making one-bite presentations because you can really see that it’s a fillet.
I have tagged these as “Boneless & Skinless” but they’re only boneless. When I asked the producer about about how these differ from the boneless fillets, I was told, “The handmade boneless sardines are whole sardines without bones. So they are nicely presented in the can as whole sardines but when you return it [turn it over], they’re “cutted/opened”.
115g (4 oz) tin
Pictured on arugula with beet pickled onions and kale microgreens.
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dolson.drew (verified owner) –
I submit that every Fishy Explorer ought to buy several cans of these sardines. They are, for starters, quite lovely, a very fine French sardine. More important to your ocean exploration, though, is the fact that these are boneless, but not skinless. (Slogan: “All the flavor; slightly less calcium!”) Here in the U.S. marketplace, it’s not otherwise easy to lay hands on this combination.
What the value in it? Well, while you may have traveled far on your sardine journey, I am absolutely certain that there are folks in your life, perhaps folks very, very dear to you, for whom the way forward is barred by a stout gate built from spines. They just can’t get passed the ick factor of chomping vertebrae. Perhaps they’ve balked, too, because they’ve spied unspecified innards when you’ve offered to split the fish open and remove the bones–these sardines are whistle-clean, perhaps as a result of whatever wizardry whisks away those spines without slicing open the fish.
Anyway, that’s why I said up front “buy several of these cans.” Eat one yourself, you greedy snacker, you. But then share the other tins with the hesitant, yet curious. This may well be the stepping stone they need. And if not, you’ll get to enjoy the rest yourself–and these are super good.