The Spanish mackerel is held in the highest esteem as a food-fish, being considered one of the very best, second only to the pompano of the Gulf or the whitefish of the Great Lakes.
There is another Spanish word pampano, more nearly resembling pompano in sound and spelling.
I consider the pompano to be the best food-fish in either salt or fresh water--the prince of food-fishes, it is incomparable.
And this continues during the first half of the flood tide, during which time schools of pompano are feeding on them.
It is difficult to take thepompano with the hook except on the flood tide, when it is running in schools, feeding along the shores, though it is occasionally caught by still-fishing in the bays with bait of beach-fleas or cut clam.
The head of a broiled or planked pompanois a bonne-bouche that once eaten will ever be held in grateful and gratified remembrance.
The hooked pompano frequently breaks water among its other manoeuvres to escape the angler, and as a leaper at other times has quite a reputation.
Some gourmets, however, will take issue with him on this and say the pompano is better.
Go there and if you care to taste a pompano before you die, a pompano cooked as only one mortal on this earth can do the job, go there and whisper to the chef that 'I'm your friend.
I was ready for that pompano when at last it came.
Other fish may be substituted forpompano if desired.
Roll four small California pompano in flour, and season with salt and pepper.
Serve broiled pompano with a Colbert sauce, to which has been added two red peppers (pimentos), cut Julienne style.
Then strain the broth over the pompano and boil until done.
Put four small whole pompano and four fillets ofpompano in a buttered saute pan, and season with salt and pepper.
Season the pompano with salt and pepper, roll in flour and fry with melted butter.
Put a teaspoonful of the mushroom puree on one half of the paper, place the pompano on top, and another spoonful of the puree on top of the fish.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pompano" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
