Seafood

[Joelene9]

All,
  What kind of seafood do you like?

  I just came in from the "Left Coast" after attending a wedding.  I had bad experiences on the Left Coast with seafood.  None on the East or Gulf coasts.  I live in a landlocked town in the middle, a mile up, and good seafood is scarce.  This time in the San Diego area, I had some good seafood.  I had fish & chips at a local place in Oceanside, that was good!  The stuff I had last year at a highly rated boutique type restaurant touted "The Best Fish & Chips in Town" near the Monterey Bay Aquarium was the worst stuff I had!  That had a corn crust that was overcooked with the sliver of fish inside cooked to shoe leather!  This one I had this last Wednesday had 3 LARGE pieces with a batter crust, cooked to perfection.  With the same price for the same basket at Long John Slivers with the 3 widdle pieces!  I had a fried clam, calamari, mussel, oyster combo meal from another local and blackened Mahi from the local Chart House.  That Mahi had a good taste and went down like butter.  I love seafood!
  I came home and went to the local grocer.  Finally!  Fish for under $5 a pound!  I got a 3 lb bag of individually cut pink salmon steaks for about $3.75 a pound.  I had baked salmon in butter with Italian seasoning and garlic.  I also like fish grilled and broiled.  Bring it on!  HRT didn't change my liking for seafood, only the addition of garlic to some dishes I abhorred before.

  Joelene

[twit]

shrimps(locally caught and same day fresh) is about the only seafood I care for although a local guy is supposed to bring me some fresh flounder next time he goes gigging for the gigging light I gave him that was my dad's. I know I'll have to remind him a few more times and likely even wait til next year as he's already getting into his hunting mindset.

[Jamie D]

I use to love to dive for abalone, pound the steaks, and cook them on a wood fired hibachi.

[barbie]

Almost every week, I eat one of the following sea food:

1. all of teleost (bony fish, cooked or raw) such as seabass, mackerel, hairtail, eel and flounder/sole.
2. sea slug (raw)
3. abalone (raw or cooked)
4. live octopus
5. sea cucumber (raw)
6. turban shell (raw or cooked)
7. sea squirt (raw)
8. oyster (raw or cooked)
9. shrimp/crab/bivalve (raw or cooked)
10. fermented skate
11. all kinds of seaweed

Among these, my favorite one is oyster soup with hot pepper.

In this spring, I had a chance to have dinner with foreign colleagues from Europe including Russia, N. America, China and Japan.

The first challenging item was fermented skate. Norwegian guy knew about it (fermented shark). The smell of ammonia... No European guy dared to try it. The American guy was very brave, but regretted later.

The second item was live octopus. Surprisingly, all of them ate it very well!

Typical dinner of sea food with my family:


Sashimi of chub mackerel at a Japanese Restaurant near my home


Flounder hot soup with wormwood (mugwort) at a local restaurant.

Barbie~~
Barbie~~

[Padma]

Since I've been on E, after 30 years vegetarian I suddenly can't stop eating fish. Mainly salmon (baked, skin on, really good with flaked almonds), and tuna salad. I really like dover sole but can't afford it - and little prawns (the big ones creep me out, like eating polystyrene). Oh, and pickled herring if it's sour, not sweet. I've never liked molluscs.

[justmeinoz]

Anything really, except Moreton Bay Bugs (Shield Lobster), and crayfish tail, although I like the legs and antennae.  Those too are just a bit too rich. 
Lots of Atlantic Salmon here Padma. I just about OD'd on it when I moved here last year. 

Karen.

[Ms. OBrien CVT]

[Elsa]

Since I've been on E, after 30 years vegetarian I suddenly can't stop eating fish.

could be protein and/or fish fat (probably the healthiest form of fat) and/or omega-3 oil cravings. It could be your body needs its for transitioning and is sending you signals for it. (similar to the fruit cravings I've suddenly started getting due to my low vitamin intake.)

as for me Mackerels!!! love them!!! especially when stuffed and barbecued or shallow fried.

[Padma]

Mackerel is good too (I love the skin crispy, and I love crunching up the tail - weird).

I fended off the fish-eating for six months, trying all manner of veggie supplements for proteins, omegas, you name it. But one day my body made me get up, get dressed, go out, buy fish, cook it and eat it, and then heaved an enormous somatic sigh of gratitude. The only people who seem to really get what it's like have been pregnant .

[barbie]

I love king crab, too. Nowadays most are imported from Russia (Bering Sea), but local red king crab is also available. It is offered usually in buffet restaurants, and I can not eat much as I have to eat other items too.

To me, blue crab tastes better than king crab. A different species of blue crab are caught in my country, and its meat is more affluent than the Atlantic species, Callinectes sapidus.

Barbie~~