In our ongoing quest to eat fresh local fish while sailing around the Caribbean, we went to Grenada Fish Market in St George. We wanted to find something special for a BBQ dinner onboard Sea Pearl and we were not disappointed. I scored a beautiful mahi mahi and a good sized snapper that together gave me ten good servings from just these two fish.
The Granada Fish Market is the best we’ve seen in the Caribbean so far. It is clean, well-organised and has lots of fresh fish at very good prices. We should have arrived earlier though, because we only found one lovely snapper to take home. There were whole tuna and other fish, but a lot were already cut into steaks, and I was looking for something intact for the BBQ.
When I bought that whole snapper, I asked their expert filleter to clean him up and throw him in some ice. We had the local bus trip back to Woburn Bay where Sea Pearl was anchored still to do and the sun was not yet high.
Just as well I did, because we bumped into some ‘cruiser friends’ of ours from the ARC rally we did earlier this year when we sailed across the Atlantic from The Canaries. Needless to say we got a little waylaid. Lunch with these two at a local restaurant moved into rum punches overlooking St George’s Harbour in the afternoon. By the time we got back to Sea Pearl that evening our fish was still chilled, but we needed a snooze, relegating our BBQ to tomorrow’s plans. The following evening, while Paolo (my husband, Skipper & BBQ chef extraordinaire) heated up the BBQ, I planned to make a mango, cucumber, red onion, mint & lime salsa to go with our lovely snapper.
But the mangos I got from St George’s food market were a few days away from being ripe, so now it was my salsa that would have to wait for another day! This was definitely preferable to last week’s purchase where the mangos were so soft that by the time I got them home the flesh had virtually liquified inside their skin.
It meant they weren’t really much good for anything other than smoothies, sorbets or daiquiris! Paolo took to the BBQ with potato wedges (I’d started these off in the microwave so as not to burn them on the grill), some melanzane rounds (eggplant) and of course that oh so sweet snapper. Add some lettuce, tomato, home-made lemon mayo, and the ever-present hot pepper sauce and voila – you have a perfect meal. Wash it all down with a Sardinian Rose’ I discovered in our bilge store and you know you’re living the life! After the BBQ bonanza? More snoozing as the sun sets slowly over Woburn Bay.
