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Favorite Seafood Dish?

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posted on Aug, 23 2021 @ 09:45 AM
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originally posted by: DrumsRfun
a reply to: rickymouse




If I get a pike, bass, or any good fresh bigger fish over twenty inches long I like to scale it and toss sale and pepper on it and stuff the cavity of the fish with onions and a stalk of celery and some butter. Then I wrap it in foil to seal it, again wrap it in foil to double the foil, and stick it over a wood or charcoal fire, about ten minutes a side till it is flaky. It is hard to put a time on it, it is actually steamed and baked when done. The fish just falls off the bones. You can put other stuff in it, if you do not have celery, just use some parsley flakes. A couple cloves of garlic is also good if you feel like it


Thats almost exactly how I do it too.
Pike is one of my favourites.


Sadly, my wife does not like pike, she hates bones in her fish. I get whole whitefish from the fishhouse and filet them myself because I wind up taking bones out of the filets if we get them anyway. Right now Lake Superior is warm and the Whitefish are a little mushy. I cannot catch a whitefish no matter how many times I go fishing for them. So I get them from the Indians or Thills fish house This year their whole whitefish price went up to five bucks a pound and their filets are about twelve bucks a pound. So I bought enough whole whitefish in the spring and fileted them and vaccume packed enough for a while, we have twelve larger filets in the freezer now for every other week. We have Cod on the other week, we have about twelve times of that we bought during the sales in the freezer too. Plus three pollack packages which is for Kala Mojakka I make once in a while.

So I don't get to make the fish in foil very often unless we have company over since she won't eat it. Maybe that is why I like it so much, because I don't get it so often anymore. I used to do my fish like that a real lot, but not as much anymore. My brother and his wife likes fish done that way, we polished off a whole pike one day. My wife ate a couple of Hot dogs. She will not even try it because her beliefs she hold dictate her life. She thinks fish with bones in it is inferior, below her standards. But I accept the things I cannot change, one bone in the filet and she is complaining, whether here or at a restaurant. If she finds bones she quits eating the fish...better for me, I get to finish her fish in the restaurant.



posted on Aug, 23 2021 @ 11:09 AM
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originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
What's your favorite seafood dish? There's no wrong answer here.

I'd have to say mine is a tossup between lobster and Alaskan King crab. If I had to pick one, it would be tough, but I'd probably have to go with Alaskan King.

Ok, this is coming from a former Coastie that was stationed at the Loran Monitoring Station on Kodiak Island for 1.5 years in '79/80. Our ET1 had a crab pot and boat, we put out the pot, and the next day pulled up I don't know how many huge Alaskan King Crabs.

He also had a friend at one of the local canneries who let us borrow one of their boiler rooms, so we all went up with the still live crabs, started pulling the legs off and dumping them in the huge kettle boiler (and tossing the rest down the chute for the gulls), then proceeded to gorge ourselves on fresh alaskan king crab legs with fresh melted butter in large bowls, until we couldn't even move.

My god, you haven't had King Crab until you've had it where it was still alive, and was on the ocean floor a mere few hours before being cooked.

That was the best I've ever had, until my last duty station - Marcus Island, Japan (aka Minami-Tori-Shima). This was a Loran Transmitting station.

Then, in '81-82, about halfway through my one year tour there, someone new came in that told us about something I'd never heard of before.

He took us out on the reef, and we spent the next hour or two collecting a huge number of large 'sea snails', these things were about the size of your fist.

To cook them, you just set the shells on a grill, with the opening angled up, and when the snail popped out of the shell, they were done.

We had these at least 2 or 3 times a week for the rest of my tour, those things literally littered the reefs all the way around the island, I doubt we ever even put a dent in them.

Best eating I have ever had, hands down. Tasted like a cross between King Crab, Stone Crab, Lobster, and Sea Scallops.
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posted on Aug, 23 2021 @ 11:24 AM
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I caught some halibut and lingcod in Alaska. The boat captain gutted / fileted it into steaks and we cooked it on a open campfire when we got back to shore. Just threw some salt / pepper and wrapped in foil. It was so scrumptious. Sometimes I think where and how you at food can make it taste better. Something about being tired, cold, and partially seasick made that fish taste so much better once we were back on shore in from of a campfire.



posted on Aug, 23 2021 @ 12:57 PM
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a reply to: Flyingclaydisk


That's a hard question, so to kind of cheat, I will just say cioppino!

With alaskan crab, , shrimp, mussels, clams, scallop and fish


Only thing missing is lobster. I love a good surf and turf with lobster tail.
Third place is giant fried calamari. Haven't really found as good a calamari in the states as I have in Europe though.



posted on Aug, 23 2021 @ 12:58 PM
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a reply to: chris_stibrany

Fourth place linguini with clam sauce.
Made some last week with some truffle pasta. So good. and so easy.
Just butter garlic onions and the clams.



posted on Aug, 23 2021 @ 12:59 PM
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a reply to: chris_stibrany

It's not really seafood but its related...I love a good crawfish etouffee.



posted on Aug, 23 2021 @ 01:33 PM
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originally posted by: chris_stibrany
a reply to: Flyingclaydisk


That's a hard question, so to kind of cheat, I will just say cioppino!

With alaskan crab, , shrimp, mussels, clams, scallop and fish


Only thing missing is lobster. I love a good surf and turf with lobster tail.
Third place is giant fried calamari. Haven't really found as good a calamari in the states as I have in Europe though.


Cioppino is the bomb!



posted on Aug, 23 2021 @ 02:03 PM
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a reply to: Edumakated

The only good part of having to go to SF to renew some gov docs was the food. Cioppino on the wharf was delicious. I guess it was about 2 years ago already.
We made it at home around New Years too. Was delicious.



posted on Aug, 23 2021 @ 02:04 PM
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a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Weirdest seafood dish I ever ate was a live octopus in Korea. Now that I know how smart they are I am not sure if I could do that again.



posted on Aug, 23 2021 @ 02:54 PM
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Some of the best seafood I've had was in Lisbon, Portugal. We found some restaurant on the water and they had every kind of seafood you could think of...unbelievably good. You could taste the freshness of it.



posted on Aug, 24 2021 @ 05:23 AM
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a reply to: chris_stibrany

I've had a linguine with white clam sauce and mizithra cheese that will make your socks shoot straight off your feet!



posted on Aug, 24 2021 @ 09:47 AM
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a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Had to look up the cheese.
Was it aged and grated or was it melted? I would imagine grated



posted on Aug, 24 2021 @ 10:55 AM
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I love most all seafood, best I've had served to me was in Hawaii (best squid I've ever had, also best sushi ever)

When I was sailing in the Bahamas I tried some amazing jack and kingfish and conch

Up here in Seattle we get some great rockfish steelhead crab and salmon

My favorite dish is a basic seafood stew, where I'll use some leftover smoked salmon, make a tomato bisque (with garlic and cilantro and corn) add the salmon, some shrimp, scallops and/or mussels clams and serve with a crusty bread. Works great with halibut or swordfish too if you prefer a really meaty fish

happy eating!



posted on Aug, 24 2021 @ 07:39 PM
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a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Back in the 70s, I lived on the gulf coast of Florida. We had AMAZING seafood back then, my fave was the following.

1 LB Shrimp boil, preferably using beer. Raw oysters with lemon and cocktail sauce, and several pitchers of beer. OMG that was total heaven. Florida lobster also on occasion. The wild shrimp you can still get in Tarpon Springs is the best tasting shrimp I have ever had.



posted on Aug, 24 2021 @ 08:20 PM
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I have a question.
Where can I catch Scrod and what is the best bait or lure to use?
Thanks in advance!
BTW, True English style Fish n Chips (wet battered Cod, hand cut twice fried potatoes) fried in beef fat like it was still done when I was a kid is the bomb.
Fries cooked in beef fat is so crazy good my mouth is watering just thinking of them.

edit on 08-19-2021 by PiratesCut because: Proof reading BEFORE tapping send is a thing I may never learn



posted on Aug, 24 2021 @ 08:29 PM
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Were you in Tarpon in the late 70’s? I was.
Remember the fish house on the other side of the river near the bridge where shrimp boats unloaded and gangs of women stood at those huge sorting tables heading shrimp for a dollar a bucket?
The best shrimp I ever ate I got from there, we’d do a 5lb. boil for three of us.....”SoGood”!
If you were there, you ever run into an old New England fisherman with a big ships wheel and two sparrow tattoos on his chest called Boats?
If you met him you’d remember.....😎

reply to: openminded2011


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posted on Aug, 24 2021 @ 10:57 PM
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Jan Braai - A Cape Town Crayfish Recipe:




posted on Aug, 25 2021 @ 01:38 AM
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a reply to: chris_stibrany

Grated.

Lots of butter too. Just wicked good!



posted on Aug, 25 2021 @ 02:11 AM
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a reply to: openminded2011

Marco Island, back in the late 60's and early 70's, before Marco Island was even a thing. Used to fly in there and land on the road when they were building the new (then) airport on the island. You'd fly in and land on the road, taxi back and park in the hotel parking lot. The air traffic control tower was the hotel front desk...LOL!

Never had any lobsters, but the Snook fishing was incredible. Shrimp was bait. Stone crab was everywhere. Blue crab was so plentiful they would coat the bottom of the brackish backwater areas; no one even ate them back then, they were just a nuisance. The sportfishing was some of the best in the world. Pompano, Snook, Redfish, Grouper, and too many others to name.

Down on the SW corner of the island was an old military radar tracking station (for tracking ballistic missiles out of Cuba). It was right at the confluence of a river and the Gulf. When the tide would run a giant eddy would form there and the water would just boil with fish. We would sit on the seawall and fish. You'd catch a fish on every cast, but you never knew what you were going to get; it might be a Jack, it might be a Snook, or a Tarpon, or a Redfish. Sometimes the porpoises would show up and there would be 20-30 porpoises just stuffing themselves on fish. We'd go out there at dawn in the boat and throw cast nets to catch Pinfish for Snook bait. One or two casts and you could catch more Pinfish than you'd ever need. We'd put them in the live-wells on the boat and have enough live bait to fish for several days.

Yeah, I LOVE seafood!



posted on Aug, 25 2021 @ 08:10 AM
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a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

hmmm

either scallops and black pudding

salt baked sea bass

smoked salmon and potato salad

or langoustines in butter

all from scottish waters

and I love the odd smoked brown trout a classic from camping /fishing as a kid




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