POLL: What's your favorite fish to eat?

Sadly for my taste buds I now live in Kansas. Here they think good seafood is red lobster. Grew up about 50 miles off the gulf coast though and that's where you get good seafood.

 

since I love the sea and love seafood, I could never live far from the coast.

its God's swimming pool.

 

Oh, I've been all over the place. Kansas is mostly nice and quiet as long as you don't rile up the conservatives and you can get a damn good steak here.

 

right wingers in Kansas always seem to be hot tempered - must be low self esteem issues

while they have good steaks whenever I have been to KC, Stroud's chicken palace was my first stop -






sadly, they moved from this great location but I understand they still have great quality

 

escabeche:



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bacalao salad:


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two of my favorite sea food platters - delicious beyond words





I promise each of you that, if you were stuck on an island and all you had to eat was these two dishes you could live a LONG healthy life.

 

I am torn between swordfish and halibut. Both have a steaklike texture, and are very good panroasted.

 

I love Marlin when it's prepared properly.

Another is Red Snapper.

 

Red Snapper is very tasty. It was my go to fish when I was a kid and we
went to a seafood restaurant. Blackened RS is excellent.

 

Fresh or smoked sockeye Alaskan salmon, caught and prepared by me.

 

Smoked trout.

 

I would agree trout (rainbow) is way up there for flavor. There is nothing better than a shore lunch with freshly caught trout.

I also like walleye...now walleye are not much fun to catch. It's like a dead weight on the end of your line, they don't fight much, but with a light batter of flour, seasoning and thrown on a skillet over an exposed fire in the outdoors, and frankly it doesn't get much better. I'd like to make a living being a walleye fishing guide..it's much easier to catch than PIke or Muskies and probably the 2nd best tasting freshwater fish there is....2nd only to Rainbow trout.

 

Hammour and Bonita.

 

Salmon, in many different styles. God I love river/seafood.

 

I have never had walleye. Not a lot of them out here in California.

As for trout, love fresh trout if they are small. They get up over 10" and then, well, not so much. I do have a smoker, and luckily my significant other also loves smoked trout, so I try to smoke up a dozen or so a year.

 

I travel to Canada, and fish for them. Of course the mosquitoes swarm in warmer months and you have to fish in full bug protection gear. It's not for the faint hearted.

 

For fresh water fish, freshly caught rainbow trout that has been sauteed in butter with a little garlic with in a few hours after being caught.

For salt water fish, it has to be fresh, prepared and consumed with in a day after being caught. That means you have to catch your own fish.

Here in Southern California there's only one place where you can buy real fresh fish and that's from the dory fishermen on the Newport Beach who go out every night in their dory boats and return at dawn with their catch. Most of their catch is sold to five star restaurants.

But for saltwater fish:

Halibut that I caught or bought off the dory fishermen.

Swordfish that someone has caught while fishing for billfish.

Shark that I have caught, usually Mako shark. There's a bunch of them off of Newport.

Corbina.
Corbina is usually caught while surf fishing and are found from Baja Mexico and along the Southern California coast. But we are talking about the Peoples Republic of California and any thing that is fun or people enjoy the liberals in the state legislature either make it against the law or tax it. In California it's illegal to sell corbina and it's illegal for a restaurant to prepare or have corbina on it's property. So if you want to eat corbina, you need a fishing pole.

Corbina taste like crab probably because that's what corbina eats. You use sand crabs as the bait to catch corbina in the surf.

All of your bottom dwellers rockfish, sculpins, lingcod are all tasty eating but rock fishing isn't really fun. And because the liberals in California kept the welcome mat out and allowed the states population to quadrupel from 10 million to 38 million, they now have strict regulations of where you can fish, what you can catch and keep and how many you can keep. Pretty basically, fishing isn't politically correct in California.

$47 DOLLARS for a California sport fishing license !!!

 

Snakeheads. You don't feel guilty about killing them and they're really rather good to eat. Taste is strange, robust yet delicate if that makes any sense. I'm working my way through all the recipes for them on the internet. Outrageously ugly fish, actually frightening appearance. I serve them grilled whole to prospective GF to see if they have the right stuff for culinary adventure. (One actually screamed but she enjoyed them the most)

 

I like salmon and tuna. Salmon I like glazed with honey and smothered in sesame seeds. Fried quickly on each side in a pan , and then finished in the oven. Delicious.

Tuna I like raw , ahi. I like to thinly slice it with cucumber and cover it in lime juice and eat it just like that.

 

Barramundi or swordfish.

 

Salmon and dry salted cod are superior in this matter!

 

loooove fresh salmon, lightly fried and salted... eat it twice a week

 

When I lived on the Presidio of San Francisco, one of my neighbors went fishing ever chance he got. One day, he brought in a beautuful salmon, cleaned and gutted it, then placed a bar of real butter inside it, wrapped it in tin foil, and put it on the grill for a couple of hours. Mouth watering with home-made potato salad, cold beer, and crisp seaside air. (More then 4 decades and I still remember it)

 

Red snapper and grouper.

 

Seems the point was FISH type fish.. not seafood/shellfish.

I LIKE several but Salmon is SO damn versatile. I got a grill/smoker that does salmon great. I can do asian, mexican, Italian,french versions and I make Sushi too. Last week at my Nieces wedding there was a whole platter of Salmon Sashimi. Out west... I often had Rock Cod. When I cooked at Santa Cruz Wharf.. Steve,the other cooks sometimes said he'd catch us a Ling Cod for dinner.....so.. I'd bring a bit of white wine for it. You can't hardly ever find that in a fish market.... it's GREAT. Tuna, Ahi,Yellowtail, Albacore.. can be nice.. also versatile. Out west our Fav Mexican place did super Ahi Tacos. You could get yellowtail right off the boat for great Sashimi. Fresh Brown Trout on a campfire.. damn tasty.

Whatever. There's SO many great ways to eat Salmon.

 

I DO like to marinate Salmon in a Soysauce,lemon,sesame Oil mix (sort of Teriyai) cook it on the grill with Mesquite and some smokage. I'd also go Mex, again smoky and with a red chili Marinade, roast poblano + corn and slices of AVO.

Easy..... Baked on rice with a lot of butter,white wine, scallions,lemon. you put it togather in 5 min, put it in the oven and.. eat it in about 30+ min. When I want to use the grill to smoke up stuff (like salmon) I may put a few potato chunks on,Corn, or red Bells and some PRAWNS. I LOVE to use those smoky prawns with Raw salmon, some AVO ,some fresh purple basil from the yard to do a good sushi roll.

A Freind had a Lobster feed.... he's from N Hampshire.. had a bunch of Live MAINE Lobsters flown in and....OMG. Lobster.. of course is DAMN expensive. As a Cook in a beach town.... I had a few "freebees". must say.. never bought Lobster to eat.