September 16, 2015

Did you know you can eat monkfish liver? The monkfish, also known as the sea devil, is a deep sea creature with a distensible stomach that allows it to eat prey almost as big as itself. Don't be frightened. You can turn it's liver into a tasty Japanese dish called ankimo. All you have to do is take the veins out, rub with salt, soak in sake, and then steam it. Although I want to try ankimo, you catch it using bottom trawling...not exactly good news for seafloor habitats.