Week of June 23, 2025 - Small World Seafood Update

Hello everybody!!

Well, you have this week to load up on fish and seafood. Next week, we are on vacation for the 4th of July!! For the whole week, too. I find that after we take a week off, we all come back a little more relaxed and focussed. With a little more energy in bringing you the highest quality of really fun stuff to cook with. What an amazing job you've done cooking up a storm with such a variety of fish. Honestly, did you ever think you would be doing that? 

Anyway, with the heat dome in the early to middle part of the week, I was thinking that it would be super nice to keep things cool. So the timing couldn't be better for some local tuna!!!! In local, I am usually refering to the band of fish from Nova Scotia down to the Carolinas. This haul is the first of the year for tunas coming out of Canada!!! Cold waters means firm and fattier fish. Yellowfin tuna is the catch of the day. Also known as Ahi in soosh restos, yes, it is sushi grade! Get yourt poke bowls on!!!

But that wouldn't be enough. How about we add frozen hamachi loin to the party! Also known as yellowtail, not to be confused with yellowfin, this is the top notch stuff you see served up as crudos, etc. Except at a fraction of what you would pay if you ordered it out. Trust me. This stuff is terrific. maybe save it for the 4th? A bigass platter of hamachi crudo to start things off? Totals..

And since we are in the sushi kind of frame of mind, yes on Faroe Island salmon and yes on our amazing Hokkaido scallops. Yup, both sushi grade whether fresh or blast frozen..

And then we move onto the fun parts of the fish that are just super tasty and hard to find anywhere. So, first up is hamachi kama, or the collar. Trust me on this one. You season it, olive oil, 450F oven for 12 minutes skin side up and broil for 3 to brown the skin and eat up!

Or grab some skate cheeks! That part of skate shaped like a walnut that is so tasty! Dredge and pan fry or add to a Cioppino or seafood soup!

And fresh lobster claw and knuckle lobster meat from Nova Scotia!!! We vac pack them so  you have a good week to ten days in your firdge. But, hey, if you wanted it ofr the 4th, pop the pack in the freezer. That's all..

We have butterflied branzini back in stock, we have wild jumbo head on shrimp, we have wild wee bitty rock shrimp and South African lobster tails..plus a lot of the usual suspects as well...

As for speical items, load up on more of those amazing smoked pork/beef hot dogs from El Camino! If you like hot dogs, you will love these....

You see? How much fun we can have?

Littleneck clams are the shellfish of the week. Right now, mussels are in a spawn so we will skip them this week...Pair with Settentatre Pasta Co's organic fresh spinach linguini for cheapest meal ever!!  Oysters will be Island Pearls from PEI ... We have labneh and smoked fish..So many good things..

Plenty of crab meat, shrimp, etc....

I know, I know..Lots of words...

Anyway, as usual, I have to thank all of you guys for being in our lives. What an incredible community we live in...

Robert Amar

Small World Seafood

Owner