Technique is paramount in cooking delicate trout.
Other dishes are, for the most part, exquisitely executed, including a bracing salade de pissenlit, dandelion greens, egg, and anchovy dressing; crème billi bi, a subtle mussel soup (the recipe is adapted from Maxim's, in Paris); and, for an entrée, delicate trout meunière or a robust guinea-hen special, stuffed with foie gras, sweetbreads, and chanterelles.
Feeling a little squeamish, I gave my beaker to my boyfriend and concentrated on the tempting platter of cheese, tender smoked lamb and assortment of home-smoked fish – from a delicate trout to an odd, earthy variety that we later discovered had been smoked in cow dung.
It was strudel pastry encasing a duxelle of mushrooms, a hash of delicate lake trout, and a forcemeat of that trout, served with a delicate white-wine cream sauce infused with mushroom flavor.
The nine or so courses take in a wide variety of heat and texture: on a recent evening, they included delicate grilled trout, set on top of radishes, green beans, and purple potatoes; braised pork shank, soft and steeped in wine; a superb strawberry-rhubarb crisp, with a slightly salty crumble on top, tempering the ripe sweetness of the fruit.
A recent lunch yielded a rectangle of delicate house-smoked trout on a horseradish-spiked edamame pur?
At lunch, grilled rainbow trout (delicate and buttery) was a lovely entree, enveloped by a piquant thyme-lemon sauce, along with cubes of sauteed artichokes and carrots.
The list I finally decided on for the menus was composed of pale or delicate things: veal, trout, day-neutral strawberries, green garlic and its scapes, mustard greens, small sour cherries, snap peas shelled.
It was born to be an aperitif or to accompany shellfish, trout and delicate veal dishes.
Our main trophy was a species of char, like an oversized trout with delicate pink spots, called goletz in Russian.
Aesthetically speaking, carp, which lack the streamlined shape and the delicate watercolor patterns of trout, are an acquired taste for some.
