Sautéed Fillet of Skate with Caramelized Apples and Chicken Liver

My introduction to skate took place when I was a child, during a summer spent on Cape Cod, where, with my older brother and sister, I ran into a fisherman. He was an old salt, his arms deeply tanned and wrinkled from the sun, his beard scraggly and speckled with dried seawater. We asked what he had been catching. “Skate,” he replied. Not familiar with the fish, we inquired further and he told us, “In New England we call skate poor man’s scallops.” He explained that “back in the day,” people