A Quick Supper - Sardines in Tomato Sauce on Toast
One of the quick suppers we have here every so often is a tin of Sardines/Pilchards/Sild in Tomato Sauce served on hot buttered toast and then sprinkled liberally with white pepper and vinegar. It has to be plain malt vinegar though. Basically you serve this straight from the tin (after taking the spine out of each individual fish which are easy to do after splitting each fish in half). You can eat them in as the spines are soft, but I prefer to take them out and then one of the cats normally is the beneficiary. So nothing is wasted. They are then popped onto hot buttered toast. You do not need to warm them through. You can flash them under the grill if you wish. That is all there is to it. I have tried the oil version and for me it has to be the Tomato Sauce version everytime. However the fish preserved in oil can prove very useful for other dishes. The added bonus is that tinned fish of this sort in the greater scheme of t...