An Environmental Ceramics Inc. fish baker designed and manufactured by
Taylor and Ng circa mid 1970s was used for this recipe.
Win Ng was a Chinese American sculptor, industrial designer, and illustrator whose early career focused on abstract work influenced by
Peter Voulkos. He is best known for opening Environmental Ceramics which manufactured pottery sold in the department store Taylor and Ng he co-founded with Spaulding Taylor.
The interior is glazed, exterior is unglazed, there is a small hole in tail for steam to escape.
I started with one whole cleaned
pompano 1 1/2 pound fish and cooked shrimp to stuff interior. Shelly of
Shelly's Seafood in Homosassa suggested I try pompano this week. What a good recommendation, thanks so much.
Place shrimp in fish cavity and drizzle with Vietnamese garlic and red chili sauce.
Chop one shallot, half cup or more of cilantro, one inch square of ginger, and juice two limes.
Place stuffed pompano in ceramic fish baker.
Add one cup dry white wine, lime juice, and cilantro, ginger, and shallots sprinkled over the top. Put cover on fish baker and place in cold oven and set temp to 400 F, cook for 25 minutes. Immediately remove from oven.
Here is cooked pompano fish.
Remove pompano from baking dish and reserve liquid in fish baker.
Remove shrimp stuffing and set aside, and peel skin from fish if desired. Skin is paper thin on pompano fish and little to no scales are present.
The BEST FISH I ever ate. Pompano is a mild buttery flavored white fleshed fish. I placed fish on plate with some of the shrimp stuffing, some rice and drizzled with juices from fish cooker, and a few black olives. The juices were superb drizzled over the top. There is
one of these vintage cookers on Etsy (not my listing), if you love fish, get it and use it. You won't be disappointed using it. Thanks for reading and for all your comments.
