Fried Fresh Whitefish

Some of the best fish I ever ate for breakfast came after the first night I ever ate at the renowned Ballymaloe House in County Cork. We were staying at a very casual bed and breakfast in nearby Ballycotton—so casual that, when we came back after dinner with some friends who’d driven to meet us for dinner and decided to stay over instead of driving on, we booked them in ourselves, found a key to an unoccupied bedroom hanging on a shelf in the entry, and showed them to their room ourselves.<