{"id":623,"date":"2009-09-06T15:10:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T15:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=623"},"modified":"2009-09-06T15:10:39","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T15:10:39","slug":"is-it-fillet-or-filet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"Is it fillet or filet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The local Asian food place we found the other day has some fantastic sea bass and sea bream for less than half the price of our usual supermarket, so we&#8217;ll be making some use of that as we like both fish. We&#8217;ve been getting a bit stuck in a rut though and normally have it baked whole with something like chilli,\u00a0 ginger and lemon grass stuffed inside, with some lime juice in a paper parcel.<\/p>\n<p>But last night we decided to try to do something different, and opted for sea bream fillets with warm salsa verde potatoes. Great! Except we had whole sea bream, not fillets.\u00a0 Gulp! I can&#8217;t remember the last time I even had to fillet a fish!\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure there must have been one.\u00a0 I think. Maybe?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>With the help of a couple of video clips on the net, and a pull out guide we&#8217;d saved\u00a0 from an old Olive mag I don&#8217;t think I did too badly! By the forth one I was definitely getting the hang of it. Nowhere near as good as the guys in the videos, but ok!\u00a0 Helped having a really sharp, flexible knife on hand though. We&#8217;ll just have to keep buying fish so we* can practice.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img alt=\"fillets.jpg\" id=\"image622\" src=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/fillets.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>(* I say we, but I think it&#8217;s going to take a lot\u00a0 to get Bec to have a go. She was &#8220;eeew&#8221;ing a &#8220;blech&#8221;ing all over the place&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The local Asian food place we found the other day has some fantastic sea bass and sea bream for less than half the price of our usual supermarket, so we&#8217;ll be making some use of that as we like both fish. We&#8217;ve been getting a bit stuck in a rut though and normally have it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}