Your Favorite Seafood?
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Bolas De Fraile
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Some years ago just after Poland gained its freedom, I was asked to visit a foundry with a view to invest. I was advised to only eat chicken and veal as anything that took longer to grow contained toxins. River fish was completely of the menu.
Asian farmed seafood and river fish has well documented warnings over here, call me a wet brit liberal but once again the demands of the west has caused this prob not only for us but for the poor local people.
Tilapia farming started in Egypt at the time of the Pharoahs, all they had to worry about was the nile turning red and the shadoof breaking down.
Asian farmed seafood and river fish has well documented warnings over here, call me a wet brit liberal but once again the demands of the west has caused this prob not only for us but for the poor local people.
Tilapia farming started in Egypt at the time of the Pharoahs, all they had to worry about was the nile turning red and the shadoof breaking down.
ChefJune
Master Chef
an unfair accusation, Bolas... The Japanese and their thirst for more more MORE sushi is a big part of the fish problem.
Americans, proportionately, eat very little fish other than canned tuna.
CWS4322
Chef Extraordinaire
I normally steam mussels in white wine like that, but am thinking of trying this recipe (the one for beer-steamed mussels) tomorrow night (mussels from I believe out East--they were on special this week):
Beer Steamed Mussels | Mussels in White Wine Sauce | Steamed Mussels Recipe
I used to frequent a mussels "bar" and have yet to encounter a way of preparing mussels I didn't like. I don't recall ever having any that were steamed in beer...I like cilantro ... what do you think Rocklobster?
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spork
Head Chef
an unfair accusation, ChefJune... the Japanese eat little, almost zero, farmed sushi, and nearly equally zero, any freshwater fish, most having never yet heard of tilapia. Both east and west are at fault - they're the aquatic rabbits of Africa and can be exported most anywhere as a crop, and heartland Americans are discovering that other-than-canned fish can taste okay.
At this point I would like to remind everyone we try to keep the politics out of food talk.
Thank you.
Thank you.
luckytrim
Chef Extraordinaire
There hasn't been much pork porn on here lately...I need my fix!
I'll be your junkie dealer for the day, Princess !!
As for my favorite(s) - I'm a shellfish addict; my favorite fish lately is Butterfish !
Butterfish and Companions .......
Oh yum! It all looks really good and that pork! <swoon>
Well, some people would eat farmed fish because it's usually much less expensive.
My solution is simply not to buy fish
I don't like freshwater fish, only salt water fish. I live near Montreal, so fresh salt water fish has to travel further than I think it can stay fresh. (I lived in Copenhagen for five years and bought fish that were caught the same day.) I don't object to frozen fish, but the wild stuff is almost always too expensive for me.I understand you saying wild fish being too expensive. I agree. Living in Copenhagen and buying fresh daily must have been great. While living in Florida, I bought off the boats and from a fish market that bought catch of day at the docks. I miss those days. (I refrain from discussing "farm raised"fish) Since, it was considered "politics." I eat lake fish but am very careful what and where. Since, I live near Great Lakes and have to keep up on what is healthy and what to stay away from.
CWS4322
Chef Extraordinaire
When I lived in Northern Germany, the "fishman" came every Tuesday. The fish had been caught that morning. He had all the fish packed on ice...too bad I didn't like matjes (sp) which was the favorite of the family with whom I lived. Tuesday was "fried liver" night for me (dredge liver in flour, cook in hot skillet, top with a bottle of beer, toss in some raisins and fried onions, simmer until the sauce is thick and the liver is done).
K.
ChefJune
Master Chef
I don't. I don't buy a lot of it, but to enjoy wild fish from time to time is, for me, a necessity.
And, truth to tell, I would pay almost anything to get fresh walleye.
Kathleen
Cupcake
I have that shopping bag! LOL
I'll be your junkie dealer for the day, Princess !!
As for my favorite(s) - I'm a shellfish addict; my favorite fish lately is Butterfish !
Butterfish and Companions .......
Oh! It all looks awesome! Thanks!
CWS4322
Chef Extraordinaire
I didn't know walleye was a seafood <g>. I can't get walleye where I live--so when I go to Northern MN to see my parents, walleye is what I want for the "welcome home" meal, the "before I leave meal" and any meal in between. We are very simple about how we make walleye.
Saltetine crackers, crushed (a bit of powdered onion and garlic, if you wish)
egg-milk wash
butter
You dunk the fillets in the egg-milk wash. Then in the crushed crackers. Then in the egg-milk wash, and then again in the crackers. Then you toss the fillets in a skillet with the melted butter and cook until the "crackers" are golden and the fish flakes (about 6 minutes). You flip the fillets once.
For shore lunch (you go out in the boat, catch the walleye, clean it, pull up to an island, start a campfire and then cook the walleye in a cast-iron skillet you keep under one of the boat seats in a plastic bag...clean it with salt when you're done and put it back in the plastic bag after you've taken a nap on the rocks and the pan is cold--if you're in a hurry, I guess you can dunk the pan in the lake until it is cold). For shore lunch, you add beer to the wash...I'm going to MN in April, and I'm hitting the locker plant and buying walleye for my mom and I to eat while I'm "mommy sitting" (she has dementia). I don't care how much it costs...MN lobster <g> here I come.
Walleye season in in MN opens about the same time that wild aspargus is available--walleye and wild aspargus...comfort food. I'll be too early for that, but I'm on for walleye from the locker plant, the local restaurant that has an all-you-can eat walleye night on Fridays...and, oh any other place I can get it. Probably some smoked trout too <g>.
On an aside, I took my mom and dad to the cabin my mom's dad built last year (my cousin inherited it). Well, one of my cousins came out and took my 80-yr. old dad fishing. They caught 7 walleye. My cousin cleaned them and gave them to us. We ate walleye for FOUR days (my dad had caught some on his own the day before) while we were at the cabin. Not the same as Conch fritters, but oh, was it sweet. And I did go to the locker plant and brought 8 lb. of walleye home for my brother, my DH, and I. Love walleye. I have a picture of when I was 5 and caught my first walleye. The pic is of me kissing the fish...people who don't like fresh water fish have never had walleye.
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