Wash and quarter the tomatoes. Heat 4 tablespoons of oil in a saucepan. Sauté the tomatoes in it, crush them and pour 1 litre of water. Bring to the boil, simmer on low heat for about 2 hours. Then pour through a fine sieve, collect the stock. Peel and wash the potatoes and precook them in boiling salted water with 1 skein of saffron for about 12 minutes. Clean and wash the fennel and celery, keep some fennel greens.
Peel onion and garlic. Cut vegetables and onion into pieces. Wash and possibly chop the fish carcasses. Heat 8 tablespoons of oil in a large pot. Brown the vegetables, onion, garlic and carcasses in it. Season with salt, pepper, 1 Msp. saffron threads and chilli. Deglaze with Noilly Prat and wine. Add 1 litre of tomato stock, bring to the boil, cover and simmer over a very low heat for about 1 minute. In the meantime wash and drain mussels, prawns, calamari and fish fillets. Discard opened mussels. Cut calamari into rings, fish fillets into 4 pieces each, potatoes into slices. Wash the cherry tomatoes.
Deglaze with Noilly Prat and wine. Add 1 litre of tomato stock, bring to the boil, cover and simmer over a very low heat for about 1 minute. In the meantime wash and drain mussels, prawns, calamari and fish fillets. Discard opened mussels. Cut calamari into rings, fish fillets into 4 pieces each, potatoes into slices. Wash the cherry tomatoes. Pour soup through a fine sieve and fill into 4 preserving jars (3/4 litre capacity each). Add fish, mussels, shrimps, calamari, potatoes and cherry tomatoes. Sprinkle fennel green and the rest saffron threads over it. Close the jars, place them in a large pot and pour off hot water until about 3 cm below the rim of the lid. Bring to the boil and let it simmer for about 5 minutes without heat. Arrange bouillabaisse. Add rouille and baguette
Pour soup through a fine sieve and fill into 4 preserving jars (3/4 litre capacity each). Add fish, mussels, shrimps, calamari, potatoes and cherry tomatoes. Sprinkle fennel green and the rest saffron threads over it. Close the jars, place them in a large pot and pour off hot water until about 3 cm below the rim of the lid. Bring to the boil and let it simmer for about 5 minutes without heat. Arrange bouillabaisse. Add rouille and baguette
Puree 4 peeled garlic cloves and 4 fresh egg yolks with a hand blender and add 200 ml of good olive oil in a thin stream. Add a few saffron threads to colour the rouille nice and yellow. Finally season with sea salt and pepper