Plokkfiskur

My desire to relive my meals from my travels continues. Actually, this happens every time I return from a trip. =) It's like taking a bit of the trip home. Well, I've had an overwhelming desire to relive the heavenly flavours of the traditional Icelandic dish of plokkfiskur that I enjoyed at 3 Frakkar (3 overcoats) in Reykjavik. I scoured the internet in search of it. Not too many results but most of them more or less were the same. It's peasant food so it's rather basic in both ingredients and cooking method. Hmm, from the looks of it, the recipes aren't going to yield what I thoroughly licked up in Iceland. Granted the dairy products available in Iceland are tastier (fattier) that all the homogenized skim crap found here, I still can't imagine such a simple concoction of boiled potatoes and leftover fish would be as lipsmackingly delicious as the unctuous version at 3 Frakkar. Hmm, I suppose they're famous for a reason...My impression of their version is that that gratinated the plokkfiskur. Nevertheless, I forged ahead and made my own version of plokkfiskur cobbled together from a bunch of recipes. It turned out expected nevertheless: inferior. It essentially tasted of mashed potatoes with fish in it. Nothing special. It didn't even look particularly interesting. Ah, I shall have to revisit this.