seafood

[blueschef]

I would love to see that monster!

I have found that in general with fried seafood when it is greasy it is usually due to the oil not being hot enough, fryer overload or poor recovery time.

[shroomgirl]

ok, Natchitoches meatpies by James Lasyone

1# lean ground beeF
1# lean ground pork
1 medium onion
1 bell pepper
1 bunch of scallions
4-5 cloves of garlic
1TBL AP flour
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp red pepper
Veg oil

Pastry
8 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
4 tsp salt
1 cup shortening
2 eggs beaten
2 1/4 cup milk

combine dry, cut in shortening
combine eggs and milk add to dry "stirring with a fork until dry ingredients are moistened, Shape into ball pastry will be stiff"
Makes 20 meat pies.

1/4 cup of meat to pie
Fry in 375* oil

[blueschef]

Thank you mam you are a darlin'!

[justadreamer]

Originally Posted by panini

wait,wait,wait.
Shroom, I want to make sure we're on the same page. When I say purge, I'm talkin about puttin those little critters in water so that they can take a bath and swallow some clean water to get out most of the sand and mud, Right!
I thinking you are picturing me cookin mudbugs in my hot tub
Those 300 lbs of critters will fill up the spa. They are lively and fully ready to clamp on to anythig stuck inside the water. We usually hav 4-6 30gal.pots goin at all times. Throw in the spuds,some corn, almost 2 qts. of my special dry seasoning,citrus let er roll for a while and then we just get the hand pool leaf skimmer and plunge in the bugs and scope em up and into the boil. Lift the basket out pour an 1/8 onto a sheet pan, sprinkle with seasoning and repeatr till empty.
This is not an afternoon party. It gets rollin in the AM and there are still people milling about at sunrise. All the older children spend the night and a few parents. I'm very fortunite to live in a culdsac, my backyard and pool are right on the 5th hole of a golfcourse, so since the neighbors are invited and there is nothing but fairway in 2 directions , there is never any problem.
The grand prize gameboy last year was won by a 6 year old girl who actually seemed to like the idea of all the bugs pinching and hanging onto her arms and fingers. I believe her arm was in for maybe 2 min. and had about 15 hangers-oners when she lifted out.

Sounds like a rockin good time. Being from New England I have never heard of anything like that although we do have some good times with lobsters and steamed clams. I think it would be a little scary putting the lobsters in the hot tub though.

[blueschef]

When I was a kid we use to make a seafood stew with King Mackrell. Onions, Tomatoes, Garlic, Potatoes, herbs, pepper flakes and we would stuff whole plumb Tomatoes with garlic and cook them in it. Have that with some good bread and a salad, awesome! The fish was literaly hours out of the water. I am usually not to keen on oily fish (mackrell, bluefish, etc.) due to them spoiling so fast. I do love Seafood stews and such when done right (bouilabasse, supa d pece, Zarzuelaia, Paellia, Shrimp Stew, etc.).
Anyone got any ggod ones and insteresting teniques?

[Nentony]

I love Kingfish. I like them in steaks. Usually I'll make a sauce in a skillet outa olive oil, garlic, onion, tomatos, olives and capers. A little thyme. simmer. Put in the steaks and finish in the oven. With bread and some wine

Tony