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Maison Bleu are running their month in Provence special menu, which is very good value at £29.95 for three courses; the restaurant in Bury St Edmunds specialises in fish dishes. Granny took the suffolkfoodie offspring for dinner and this is what they said...

"A very good choice with at least six options for each course.  Yummy food with all courses being beautifully presented and delicious."

" The staff were friendly, chatty and responsive - they all had personality"

Pictured here are the Sardine and Mackerel  Rillettes, with shallots, parsley and capers and toasted bread.

I bought some shark from the market on Saturday and cooked it with shallots, thyme and tomatoes and a bit of hot sauce, a la Caribbean Sunday Breakfast...mmmm. The man said it was a kind of dogfish-type-shark-thing but tried to look it up afterwards and couldn't find it on the list of British sharks that we are allowed to eat, so hope it wasn't endangered but whatever it was it was delicious!

    

  

And here is George's recipe

Another suffolk foodie favourite at Orford Butley Oysterage  - quality fresh fish in a friendly no frills atmosphere, hand-drawn table cloths (printed obviously - they wouldn't have much time to cook) and lovely home-made puddings.

Ok, a blast from the past. A salmon mousse recipe, very 70's dinner party but also still good if you want to make an economical fish dish a day or two ahead for a party. I used to make these in a salmon shaped tin which is long gone; but I could buy back at great expense from a vintage cookware site.

Visited Thorpeness Golf Club and hotel for the magazine and surprised to find that anyone can go there to eat. All day bar snacks sound nice (Omelette Arnold Bennett among other things...) but I had celeriac as a vegetable with my pork - first time ever served this in a year of writing about Suffolk restaurants.  Chocolate tart with hazelnut pastry was fab - buttery and dark.

drove to Aldeburgh and spent £25 I haven't got at one of the fish sheds. Bought two large dressed crabs, one for me - one for dad; a skate wing, a piece of cod, prawns and mussels for a fish soup that I cooked when I got home. Not very much money really for one of the most dangerous jobs there is - out at sea.

Also bought two types of pears and some apples from the side of the road in Coddenham.

Little herring-shaped signs on the side of the A12  look interesting and eventually find a leaflet for this event 24th-25th October at Middleton Farm shop.  Their blog is at at www.suffolkherringfestival.wordpress.com    Unfortunately I don't like herrings or kippers - too boney for me - but I love the smell, and soft roes and might try and find time to go and have a look.