Fresh From the Sea by Fabian Black

Author:Fabian Black
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary, humour, spanking, mm, gay fiction, domestic discipline, ds romance, mild bdsm
Publisher: Fabian Black

Fresh from the Sea

Three

"What desserts have you got planned for this evening, Lin, clam chowder ice cream, mackerel and chocolate gateaux?”

David sat at the kitchen table, a black felt tip pen poised over the whiteboard on which he’d recorded starters and mains. It was almost one o clock and already a few people had gathered in front of Sandstones. They were waiting in expectation for the board to go up on the door so they could see what dishes The Venus was going to offer that evening and whether they fancied them enough to compete for a table.

“Ha, ha, and don’t think I haven’t tried them.” Lin scooped up the heads, skin and bones of the fish he’d cleaned and filleted, depositing them into a colander. He rinsed them thoroughly under the cold tap before placing them in a large pan to be turned into fish stock. The innards he slipped into a plastic bag and tied up ready to be binned. Wrapping the prepared fish in waxed paper he packed them neatly into boxes and slid them into the chiller cabinet ready to be cooked to order.

The mackerel remained in one piece looking sad, beautiful, but sad, as it lay on the granite slab, its metallic markings glimmering in the early afternoon sun. Lin gazed at it thoughtfully. It had been robbed of its life. Decency demanded its death should not be in vain. The laws of predator and hunted must be fulfilled. The mackerel had lost the game. It therefore had to be consumed and not simply discarded as if of no worth.

However, one mackerel wouldn’t go far, not even in an eatery as small as The Venus and David disliked mackerel, claiming it gave him indigestion.

“Stop staring at that fish. You can’t bring it back to life. Tell me what puddings to write up for this evening. I want to get the board up or we'll have people knocking on the door and looking in the windows. I'll have a stab at making something if you like?"

David had discovered he enjoyed baking. He found it relaxing and was ever hopeful of making something Lin would approve for public consumption, other than the occasional scone served on high days and holidays.

"We've got plenty of kiwi fruit and strawberries. I could rustle up a kiwi and strawberry cheesecake? The colour combo would look good.”

“No thank you. I have it all in hand.” Lin dragged his eyes away from the deceased fish. “How does apricot slut with homemade rhubarb ice cream sound, and a gooseberry and elderflower twit?”

David grimaced. “I am not writing that on the board.”

“Oh all right,” Lin deftly caught the pen top David lobbed at him. He lobbed it back, “be boring then. Make it plain old apricot tart and gooseberry and elderflower fool.” The mention of fools and gooseberries gave him an idea. Grabbing his knife he deftly filleted the bonnie mackerel.

Simply grilled with a mound of homemade gooseberry relish by its side and surrounded by triangles of hot buttered toast the fish was in its element.

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