I was in the Cash and Carry this morning when I spotted five of these beauties.
(The Cash and Carry has an excellent fish counter)
They are John Dory, usually smaller in Irish waters but grow huge here in the Med, these were weighing in at about a kilo each.
They are called Saint Pierre here due to the thumb print on its side left by Saint Peter when he took one up out of the water on Jesus’s instructions.
And they are quite my favourite fish.

Now I know I have ten for dinner tomorrow so I was sold already.
These five monsters yielded up ten generous fillets, already taken off now and ready to cook tomorrow.

I am not quite sure yet how I will cook them but must include at least some Anchovy in the sauce. Alan Davidson tells us that the Irish Actor James Quin who wowed London in the 1750’s (and whose favourite John Dory also was), settled the question of what sauce suited it best by announcing the banns of marriage between “Delicate Ann Chovy and good John Dory.”