Jacob Richler’s last day at the West Coast Fishing Club’s annual David Hawksworth & Friends Culinary Adventure reels in the big fish. And food.
Day 4: The weather continued to hold, as we clocked a fourth, straight rain-free day. And the fishing continued to pick up. At day’s end, there were four Tyees on the board. But all the talk was about David Bickford’s – which tipped the scaled at 58 pounds.
A champion fish – much discussed as Dino and Mark Davidson’s slung cocktails primed the crowd for Hawksworth’s10th-anniversary dinner.
It began with simplicity and lightness, with a perfect summer tomato salad dressed with a pistachio-spiked salsa verde – nicely paired with a Gardet NV champagne.
Roast sablefish with onion velouté and shaved Tasmanian black winter truffle
Then a showstopper: Roast sablefish with onion velouté and shaved Tasmanian black winter truffle.
Next, duck breast, crisp-skinned and roasted pink, plated with tender, juicy and delicate Tokyo turnips, pan-roasted oyster mushrooms and XO sauce.
And for a perfect end note – roasted sweet cherries over yoghurt ice cream, matched to a Tokaj from Chateau Dereszla.
Another ten years, please.
The 2017 West Coast Fishing Club Culinary Adventure runs at The Clubhouse July 16 to 20.
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