Tiny Fried Fish What is this!! Are these snakes! Oh gods don’t tell me we are going to eat this now … Petrified was poor me. Huuby dear as relaxed as ever places the packet in my hand (with all his luv) and says “ This is Smelt fish , I saw it in the supermarket and thought we’d have this , its easy to make ,just like any of the thorans of kerela ".Poor me ,I had just grasped the art of kerela cooking-the thorans ,pacchadis were way to away from thesai bhaji, curry chawal that found in most sindhi homes, coming from a house where we just ate green vegetables this was all new to me.
Poor ME: I can’t eat snakes!
Hubby dear: “chill dear, this is not snakes these are fish.
Poor me: they look like snakes but …. Are you sure …
Hubby dear: They are silvery fish called Smelt, We eat this in kerela.
Fish – Oh god these looked like snakes, I was so terrified, and the look on my face was good enough for A to insist he would make it…. I was more than willing . Eccentricity... is what hubby dearest relation to fish is! I was very happy with the salmons; Tilapias and king fish but smelt … what a name! not that the fish smelled but still … just to enlighten those who are as blank as me -
Smelt is the name of a family of silvery fishes found in cool waters. Most measure less than 8 inches (20 centimeters) long. Smelts have a small, fleshy fin behind the dorsal fin on the back like trout and salmon. Smelt, also called eulachon or oolichan by Native Americans, are small, silver fish the size of herring (approximately 6 to 10 inches )
