Mackerel at the market

I bumped into the cutest little street market today, on Schönleinstraße (corner Boppstraße, right outside the wonderful Hudson's) in Kreuzberg. It consisted of just one greengrocer's, one baker's, one of those little coffee carts, a flower stall and two people from Ostsee selling freshly grilled fish. I sat on the pavement in the sun, eating my mackerel sandwich. What a way to start the weekend.

Makrelenfilet im brötchen, €3.80

Schönleinstraße Saturday street market

Mackerel tostadas

Last year I created some easy peasy Mexican recipes for the Allerhande street food special. Allerhande is a complimentary Dutch magazine published by supermarket chain Albert Heijn (the Sainsbury's of Holland). The special never saw the light of day; it was killed somewhere in a ferris wheel of corporate approvals... Of course, all recipes that appear in such supermarket-owned mags use prefab mixes and other processed ingredients that are, you guessed it, for sale at said supermarket. Despite this, two of my Mexican recipes use mainly fresh ingredients and are made from scratch. One of them is this one (for recipe, click 'read more'). The only ready made product in it is the flour tortilla. I'm not a huge fan of factory flour tortillas - they're usually dry and tasteless. However, if you brush them with oil and bake them in the oven they become crispy, like tortilla chips.