— Marcy Jackson

So the first thing is to buy good sardines. I there's not necessarily I would say bad sardines out there on the market, but there are going to be sardines that you are going to like better than others. so The brands that I use that I really love is Crown Prince It's and I use the two layer bristling smoked sodiums. I'm just going to run to the other room and grab that just show you my pantry is actually It real. Quick come back. Come back. And I opened the camera and somehow on my way here. So the ones that I was talking about the king not Crown Prince King Oscar brand. These are Wildcats already is all sardines are wild caught two layers in finest bristling in extra virgin olive oil. So a couple things to think about here so packed in oil. I like better than not why because the water that thing can Seafood is packed in it's pretty much useless to me. But the oil is not the oil is wonderful. Just chock full of flavor and nutrition and I use it in vinaigrettes. I use it in sauces. You can use it in anything in a really carries a huge amount of flavor with it. I really like that so I always go with oil pack with sardines. I like smaller ones. Why? I think they're flavor is a little bit more mild, but also they're just easier to eat. Okay there also they come with the bones in and that is a good thing for the nutrition of them. The bio-accessibility of the calcium that is in those bones is is full So you're really getting huge nutrition out of them? So I like those smaller ones and Brands like Riga gold which I believe is. Please come from you. Latvia yeah, so those come from Latvia which I really like and then the king Oscar ones. Are Norway ready? Okay, remember anyway, they Poland they're really good because they they use what I think what I consider to be the same species of fish year round. So sardines much like anchovies due to World Trade organizations. You can pack any one of 13 different species of fish as sorry and seldom as sardines. Why because they all pretty much look and taste alike and are very similar and the term sardines has come to be a sort of Global Marketing term for oily small oily fish packed in a similar manner. So Brands like this tend to use one species of fish, which is a very it's more mild flavor to it and by mild I'm still mean it's still very sardini, which I really like. But they the quality of fish that they use in the packing procedures. They use is just what I prefer so There you go. And in terms of uses I eat them with other things that you love. There's a great way to do it like for me hot sauce. I really love hot sauce. You know what I do. I open a can of sardines that I put a lot of hot sauce in it, but I eat it and it's delicious. Do you really like late summer Early Autumn thick slices of beef steak tomatoes great shave up some fennel or make a nice little mustard vinaigrette whole grain mustard vinaigrette with the oil that comes out of this then flake the sardines right over top of that man. Those are gonna be delicious. There's a number of different ways but really think about other ingredients that you really like and sardines paired with that is a great way to introduce them rather than trying to make sardines the center of the plate until you really get to like them as I do so.

Brisling Sardines

Riga Gold Sardines