I have yet to mention my enormous, unrelenting, unfaltering love for seafood. Combine that my new found obsession with French food and you get bouillabaisse - a dish I have eaten three times in last three weeks. Unfortunately, I feel self-conscious about taking photos of it with my crappy point and shoot camera with a flash in the kind of places that serve it. So here’s a photo I “borrowed” from the internet. It’s the best one I could find and it still doesn’t do it justice.

If you are unfamiliar, bouillabaisse is an uber-delicious cornucopia of various fish and shellfish and veg in a seasoned tomato based broth and served with rouille on toasted baguette slices. It’s the French version of the Italian based cioppino (which I’ve made at home a couple of times, despite the high cost). I think the broth in the bouillabaisse is more complex than the cioppino, but I’ve never had cioppino in a restaurant. The important thing is that I can cram as many different kinds of seafoods as possible into my gullet with just one dish.

You must understand that, for me, this is the food equivalent of Jenna Jameson or Pam Anderson or whoever the boys touch themselves to these days.

Matt and I went to Bouillabaisse 126 in Caroll Gardens yesterday for the last night of Dine In Brooklyn (B126 being the only participating restaurant in “Columbia Waterfront“). The restaurant is right next door to Schnäck and it’s backyard can be seen from our new backyard. C’est merveilleux! (That’s French for “fuckin’ awesome”.)

I’m on a mission to try the bouillabaisse at every restaurant in Brooklyn that serves it. Any other suggestions about good French eats in Carroll Gardens would be much appreciated, because there seems to be a wonderfully surprising amount of them.

Seafood, I love you.