Today’s dinner consisted of these two tins: Cornish dines in Tomato and Caper sauce, French aged dines in olive oil, about twice the price than the top tin, but bought sometime around 2019.
Only two big pieces of fish in the tomato sauce. The fish itself is slightly dry but not excessively. Capers, one of them in the tin can’t be tasted. Probably not a rebuy.
The 2017 vintage ones are 4 smaller ones, melt in the mouth, despite not having been deboned. Light Umami. The oil, soaked up with the bread is not too fishy but full of Umami. Got a second tin of this brand plus some more 2017 vintage ones from other French producers.
by JapaneseChef456
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Yum! To be fair, it’s Cornwall vs. Brittany and they chose a British captain for their brand so it’s really Great Britain vs. Little Britain
I paid 3.26 Euro for the Captaine Cook 2024 tin this time last year. Still a relative bargain (and the tin is 15% larger than the Tesco).
To the Cornish ones discredit, it is admittedly supermarket brand.
Nothing better than quality aged sardines in olive oil!
I didn’t have that particular sardine can but I remember being quite impressed by the Tesco brand mackerel. Wasn’t dry at all, had a nice texture
Sorry you didn’t like the Tesco can, I probably buy one of those weekly 😂 agree that the caper flavour isn’t noticeable and I might add a little salt, but at about £1.5/can they’re well worth it
Yummy! 😋
You all soak the oliveoil with bread?
Why choose when you can have both 🥵😍😩 Seriously, I would guzzle those bad boys down within SECONDS and not even think twice about it; those fish look sooooo meaty and delish, definitely would barely fit in my mouth with all that meat! 😭😘🥵🫃😩🫃😩🫃🫃🫃🫃🫃🫃