When a squiggle of milt, which locals call white roe, emerged from beneath the anal fin, he tossed the fish in a bin full of males.
"But we can try: mullet is who we are," he said, standing at a stainless-steel table in the kitchen at his Sandbar restaurant, experimenting with various preparations of white roe, including a crudo made with rice wine vinegar and sliced jalapeños.
But white mullet roe will most likely prove hard to sell to consumers.
The first included octopus, mantis shrimp (canocchia), ordinary shrimp and the tiny brown shrimp called schie locally, as well as subtly flavored white cuttlefish roe, which we had to have identified for us.
However, most data suggest that although the seasonality is not as strong as in other deer species (e.g. white-tailed, roe or red deer), there are differences in the frequency of births observed throughout the year, suggesting an extended reproductive season and a high plasticity to respond to short-term signals.
A few months into their relationship, in a poetry class, Myriah was moved to write "Lobster Salad" (excerpted here): muscle baby legs, red rock roe, white claw flesh roughly slopping in oil egg yolk tarragon twigs.
In another, there's a huge breakfast competition, and Soma makes savory soufflé omelettes while other characters make eggs benedict with bottarga, frittatas served in salad, loco moco with vinaigrette instead of gravy, a reimagined Japanese stew with quail eggs, and even a series of "eggs" made of things like salmon roe, white asparagus mousse, and hollandaise sauce.
Inside, as well as the white body and orange roe, you'll see a black pouch (the stomach sac), which must be removed and discarded, and a brownish frill, or skirt, which is usually discarded, too (although it can be used in a fish stock).
My husband, Fred, and I settled onto two of the four stools and ordered a glass of Roussillon and goat cheese with crusty country bread and a bowl of delicious fat white beans with trout roe and crème fraîche.
Open the shell fully and pull out and discard everything but the white muscle and the reddish roe.
Lobster hargow, a showpiece dumpling, is ingeniously wrapped to create four little pockets at the top, each filled with different colors of tobiko, or flying-fish roe: red, black, white and green.
