Leerfish. A fish common in the mediterranean. It is large and silver and grey, plump and oily with firm flesh and deeply forked tail. It is best grilled or bakedand should be particularly fresh. Oily fish do not keep well. It seems to have no English name, but is close in appearance to the Pompano.
Skipjack tuna or striped bonito with a striped belly, which lives in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.
A dish from Mallorca of tomatoes halved and rubbed onto coarse bread, with olive oil and hot seasoning.
Parasol mushroom. Good baked with butter and garlic, or fried.
Blackfish. A solitary fish found mainly in the western Mediterranean of Cadíz and near the Azores and Madeira. The flesh is firm and white, as is often the case with deep sea fish, and cooks well by whatever method.
Wreckfish or stone bass, a type of grouper cooked like wrasse and used in soups or cut into steaks or filleted. It may grow as large as 2 m (6 ft) in length and it is found in both the Mediterranean and throughout the Atlantic. Wreckfish are inclined to follow bits of flotsam and jetsam floating on the surface of the sea.
