Friendly Friday sea creatures

• Manja Maksimovič

I’m a friendly sea creature. I’ve been drawn to the sea all my life. And yet often I eat others.

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As we have established, both Amanda – who sets sea creatures as this week’s Friendly Friday theme – and I love sea food.

My gallery consists of two parts: in the first I present myself as a sea creature-loving creature, and in the second I eat them all.

Maybe not the jellyfish. They are the future.

Thank you for feeding me. I will never forget you.

  • Let’s open this lovely Piran door into the sea world.
  • My friend brought me this fish from Turkey. I believe it was made by children in a kindergarten that he visited.
  • He also gave me this plate, possibly from Turkey as well.
  • Here he is observing the fish that made the journey from the Tivoli park on the other side of the capital, where I played in it when little, to Old Ljubljana.
  • Last summer I made the mental note to see this exhibition and yet I managed to miss it. I like it how “without humans” is tenderly crossed out.
  • Yep, it’s a fish. Amore can hardly believe it. Part of the installation Welded World by Robert Jurak at the Lendava Castle in Slovenia.
  • The welded world of our neighbours in Tuscany.
  • The amazing sea creature mural by Tina Drčar in Metelkova City, Ljubljana. Photo taken in January 2017. Probably it looks different by now.
  • He heard that I was coming. Arboretum Volčji Potok.
  • Not me but I loved swimming this way with our first dog. Alas, present Bestia didn’t get the memo.
  • Stranded sea creature.
  • Black rice with scampi, by amore’s father in Rome.
  • Oysters we only eat for Christmas. Not my favourite. I prefer my food warm.
  • Steamed mussels (cozze) in own sauce as Romans do it. Add some garlic, wine, breadcrumbs, and parsley and you get Dalmatian buzara. Yum.
  • Spaghetti alle vongole by amore.
  • King prawns (far from home) on the cast iron skillet that I like.
  • Sea food risotto. Restaurant Nimis in Vanganel, Slovenia. Father has meat. Recently a doctor told him to go vegetarian. This doesn’t mean only desserts, dad!
  • Restaurant Pirat in Piran.
  • Also in Pirat. Look at this mixed buzara with polenta.
  • At the Garlic and Wine Festival in Nova vas. She was a TV cooking show finalist. She had ground the shells of these beasties and rolled them in their own dust before frying them. Never thought of that.
  • Father was not shy to try it.
  • At Luda restaurant in Ljubljana. This was one of the best dishes I’ve ever had. Peas, black sesame and pumpkin pesto did something magical to these shrimps.
  • Octopus at Pri stričku, Ljubljana.
  • This is how it started, eight years ago at Da Gennaro in Orbetello during my first visit to amore. This may have been the moment when I was sold and my future was cemented. Look at that face.

I gathered sea inhabitants on two previous occasions:

  • this post contains a collection of fish on walls,
  • and here are various sea creatures on display in Piran.

For Friendly Friday Photo Challenge hosted by Amanda from Something to Ponder About: Sea creatures

23 thoughts on “Friendly Friday sea creatures”

  3. Well all the food looks absolutely delicious. Particularly the mussel dishes. I could eat them every day and not tire of them.
    The mural wall of sea creatures is amazing. Like being in an aquarium but outside. I hope it is not too different now.
    You did well for this prompt, Manja. Very well. And may I say you look totally happy with the decision that night too. And in love!! And you have never looked back.

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    1. Thank you, Amanda. 🙂 I read once something about an element in sea food that brings happiness. I don’t remember any details. And yet I endured food poisoning by mussels three times, back in Slovenia, twice in a restaurant. I still love them though. It was not their fault.

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  4. The food! My mouth waters shamelessly!! I Love your cast iron skillet! I have a collection myself. Never one like yours, though. ❤ *runs & dives in that ocean & swims to catch up!!* ❤ you and your Amore are beautiful!! ❤❤❤

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    1. Oh my, sly has come by! 😀 Great to see you here! This skillet is quite battered by now, we would need a new one. If you run in the ocean, you’ll only meet me in there. 😀 Bestia and amore don’t care about swimming! 😮 How can it be? And then we would eat because he would make dinner while we are swimming. Yum!

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