Capitol Hill Blue Forums Misc. Topics Food, Drink and Cooking What's for dinner?

Not necessarily so: I speared one perfectly alive fish, that totally grossed me out when I cleaned it. I think it had just swallowed a turd dumped from a boat. Also, cleaning some abalone I harvested at 85 feet depth off Bird Rock (La Jolla) just about made me unable to eat them. Their guts STINK to high heaven, even if they are still alive. This was within about an hour after prying them off the rocks. The pasta with abalone sauce I made from their feet was wonderful, but you really need a nose plug to clean them.

Shrimp Linguini

Corned beef on a sesame bun w/mustard, Swiss, and Grillo's pickles and a side of fries.

Taquitos with guacamole, cabbage sautéed in butter, corn on the cob

I know that after cleaning fresh caught trout my hands smell fishy.

Blue Stilton on, you guessed it, on Stoned Wheat Thins with Shiraz.
Air Fried Hot Sausage with hot Brown Mustard on seeded Jewish Rye.
And a handful or two of Freshly air Roasted Pumpkin Seeds, harvested from UnCarved pumpkins pushed to the curbs! Waste not, Want not!

It has been a long-standing tradition to clean up the guts/innards of kids carved pumpkins, which was a tedious process of removing the slimy, but not fishy, fibrous material scooped out of decapitated jack-o-lanterns.
I was very labor intensive to extricate the seeds from the slimy, but not fishy, mess.
I was considering a much less laborious process this year. All you have to do is cut them in half with an axe along their equator. The seeds are exposed in radial symmetry along the walls, held only by a single strand of pumpkin vasculature, and come out free of gunk with gentle finger scooping. Dont even have to rinse them off. Then doused with less salt and moar MSG, and dried in the oven at 175F for an hour or so. Then they just get sprayed with olive oil and popped into the air fryer for about 9 minutes at 390, in 3 minute cycles to monitor browning before burning.
I eat them with the hulls on as they are very crispy, and who doesnt need more fiber, nature little brooms! The MSG is also a new wrinkle and a positive experiment.
The pumpkin's gutted corpses were put next to the compost pile for the deer. I went out after dark to see if the deer had noticed that it was dinner time. The herd scattered, after a moment of deer in the headlights, when the flashlight beam startled them, but they came back later.

TAT

Processing seafood is a pretty smelly operation however you cut it'

Stinks to high heaven.

But once cleaned and filleted, the flesh of the fish should only smell "of the sea".

There are very few fish that don't taste "of fish" once prepared. Which is not to say fishy in the Red Boat Salt sort of funky goodness...simply "of fish".

Homemade pulled pork on a toasted sesame bun, with Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce. I prefer the sauces from some local restaurants, but SBR's is easily available at the grocery store and good enough. I would make some fries, but I'm out of potatoes.

I rest my fishy case, your honor!

TAT

Leftover shrimp linguini.