Canned sardines & other tinned seafood

[Neely]

I didn’t know whether to post here or in the Pizza thread but decided here. This was a few weeks ago. 
 

We have a small country holiday home and don’t leave the freezer stocked with food because we often get electricity blackouts due to branches falling on the lines. 

 

We arrived at country home in the evening and I fancied Pizza…We had brought cheese with us so made a quick one rise dough added sauce, capers and canned sardines provided the protein. Go on have a laugh…. Jumped the ( pizza ) shark perhaps. 
 

[Kerala]

It's OK, better than baseline supermarket sardines, but rather bland, both the sardines and the added herbs. Not very expensive, so there's that going for it. Nice packaging.

[scubadoo97]

On 7/14/2023 at 3:12 PM, Smithy said:

I think it was last fall that this topic inspired me to buy sardines. It's been a long time since I've done so, probably because the last few times I tried to feed sardines to someone I ended up eating them all myself.

 

This time, eating them all myself hasn't seemed a difficulty. I opened the tin last night and added a couple of filets to my dinner salad. Just now I did the same for a lunch salad. Anyone who claims sardines are "fishy" hasn't had good ones. These are good: firm, meaty, not bony that I can tell. The bottom photos shows what's left after today's lunch.

 

 

I think I got these at Walmart, of all places. 

This is one of my favorite brands.  Skin and bones please.  Don’t want to miss out on some calcium 

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[boudin noir]

Sautee fresh chopped fennel in olive oil until soft and browning.  Mash up sardines  mix with fennel. Add a nice handful of pine nuts pinch of red pepper flakes.  Mix with pasta of choice. Fabulous .

[Kerala]

That sounds delicious, I can see those flavours working well together and can even imagine the mouth feel. @boudin noirdo you grind the pine nuts at all or use them whole?

[Senior Sea Kayaker]

I'll have to go with the whole sardine camp. A simple, fast and tasty version would be mashed onto well toasted baguette or ciabatta with mustard and raw diced red onion.

 

 

Edited September 14 by Senior Sea Kayaker (log)

[Kerala]

OK, so this really is the last of my Portuguese haul. From a couple of weeks ago.

 

 

Simple, but excellent. Nice intact pieces of fish, a firm but not overcooked texture, a light taste just great with the olive oil.

 

On good bread, with good tomatoes, a drizzle of the olive oil and a few flakes of salt, this really brings back a sunny Mediterranean holiday morning. If this is the Veblen effect, then on a rainy day in the Midlands it's well worth the extra Euros.

[Anchobrie]

On 9/14/2024 at 2:20 PM, boudin noir said:

Sautee fresh chopped fennel in olive oil until soft and browning.  Mash up sardines  mix with fennel. Add a nice handful of pine nuts pinch of red pepper flakes.  Mix with pasta of choice. Fabulous .

I';ve done someting similar but with sprats (that adds the smoky scent) and it is a winner dish.

[scubadoo97]

Have a large tropical storm heading our way.  Most likely will lose power.   Canned sardines will likely be my lunch and dinner.   Wife is away and she doesn’t care for canned seafood. She will eat canned tuna but draws the line.   So a good time for me to indulge 

[FrogPrincesse]

I finally opened these beauties from la belle-Iloise. And they are as good as I remembered! Also look at them all pretty and intact in the tin.

I had them on bread soaked in a little bit of the olive oil from the tin, with good butter, slightly smashed, more olive oil on top and a squeeze of lemon juice. Perfect!

 

From their website:

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 Carefully aligned, we present them with their white undersides upwards, to show that they are still intact

 

 

 

 

 

[Kerala]

Sardine tins can be beautiful works of design. I don't know la belle-iloise, but that packaging is striking!

[Kerala]

Sainsburys supermarket posh line.

"Taste the difference." I don't know if I've posted this one before. It's expensive for a supermarket brand so I'm a bit begrudging. I have to say, it's very, very good. Different to the Portuguese boutique tins, maybe better. Clean, firm flakes, not fishy, and a fuller taste to the olive oil. 

[Kerala]

TKMaxx has a little gourmand section which often has some tempting surprises hidden away.

Portuguese sardines. Must buy!

Very nice. Sadly only one tin available and little chance of the same brand popping up again any time soon. 

Interestingly it seems to be from the same cannery as La Rose- or the other way around! A little history

[liuzhou]

2 hours ago, Kerala said:

TKMaxx has a little gourmand section

 

I hope you mean 'gourmet'.

 

😂

 

 

[Dr. Teeth]

Love all the pictures.   Learn so much from you folks on this thread.  Kerala or BTByrd, if at some point you would summarize your experience into a list of favorites, I’d be in your debt.

 

Not to derail, but Trader Joe’s Trout has been one of my daily drivers following a suggestion from BlueDolphin.   Last visit, they were gone and there was no tag in the isle where the trout should have been.   A bit worried as I had noticed the price had jumped quite a bit in the last 6 months and I know Trader Joe’s will move on from a product when the numbers don’t make sense.  Trout missing around you folks too?  And any recommendations for a substitute product?