Grey chanterelles. Fluted, trumpet-shaped, wild mushrooms with a ruffled edge, dark grey to black in colour. They are commonly found under pine, beech or birch trees from July until the first frosts and thrive in wet summers. They are usually sautéed in butter with chopped onions, but are not considered as tasty as the horn of plenty, which they resemble.
Grey gurnard, the most common of the gurnards. Gurnards are strange-looking, bottom-feeding fish which use the three bottom rays of their pectoral fins to "feel" the sea bed. They have firm-textured white meat with not much flavour. They are rich in protein, iodine and phosphorus. The grey gurnard has a brownish-grey back and silver belly and all gurnards are very bony fish. Small ones are excellent in soup. Red or grey mullet (US: striped mullet) can generally be subsituted for it, and are usually better.
Coal fish, saithe, coley, called pollock in the US. A cheap, marine fish related to cod and not unlike it. It has darker skin and lean, sweet flesh which is a translucent greyish-pink rather than white but lightens as it cooks. This is a good, everyday fish which is good in white fish dishes or is used for making imitation shellfish products.
"Grave salmon." Fillets of salmon are rubbed with blood to accentuate the red colour and then salted, seasoned with dill and sugar and pressed under a board and weight in a cold place. The fillets are then washed and dried ready for serving. They were originally called "grave salmon" because they were cured in underground cellars in which they were "buried." Generally, gravlaks is served with a sauce of dill and mustard.
"Grave salmon." Fillets of salmon are rubbed with blood to accentuate the red colour and then salted, seasoned with dill and sugar and pressed under a board and weight in a cold place. The fillets are then washed and dried ready for serving. They were originally called "grave salmon" because they were cured in underground cellars in which they were "buried." Generally, gravlaks is served with a sauce of dill and mustard.
