Seafood recipes

[whosmatt]

This one is stupid simple, but can be delicious.

I like to take a fillet of striper (or any white fish) and make a foil pack with it. Throw the fish in there, a generous helping of butter (more or less, depending on your doctor's recommendation) some salt and pepper, and a handful or two of chopped squash.. I like to mix yellow and zucchini. Throw in some chopped onions, maybe some dill or whatever else suits your fancy, seal it all up (make sure the juices can't get out) and throw it on the grill. The veggies will steam in their own juices, and even carmelize a bit if the heat is high enough.

The beauty of this one is that you can use it wherever you have some heat. A campfire works just as well. It's not fancy, but it sure is tasty. You can even eat it right out of the foil if necessary.

-M

[Cracker Larry]

A Low Country Boil..

We usually have a cookout with the neighbors every week or so and it's always something locally caught, killed or grown. Nothing comes from a store except the seasonings. Last weekend it was fried quail and gator tail, last night it was a low country boil. Usually something interesting happens over there

Before I tell you about the food, I've got to tell yall this story. Going to the neighbors yesterday evening, it's back in the woods like I am but you have to drive down a narrow dirt dam, across a pond and through a little cornfield to get to the house. There was another truck following us across the dam and when I got to the end of it there was a gator coming out the pond and heading for the corn. He was going to make an evening deer stand in there and catch him a fawn or a coon eating the corn. Gators ain't dumb.

So I turned the truck to cut him off before he made it into the corn field, and the fellow behind me pulled in behind the gator, blocking it from the pond. I jumped out with my pistol and the other fellow jumped out with a .22 rifle and popped it in the head before I could get around the truck. It was a fair size, about 7' long and maybe 300 pounds. Limp as a rag. The 2 of us couldn't put it in the truck, had to go get some help, so we headed on to the house. Rounded up a few guys, including my good friend, Blind Mike. We loaded up next weeks cookout into the truck and Mike said to take it to his house across the pond and put it in the chest freezer in the shed, we would clean it after supper.

Fast forward through supper.....by about 10 pm we were full, mostly inebriated and ready to clean the gator, so about 6 of us rode back to Mike's to take care of that. The freezer was in a little room about 6X10, mostly full of freezer. 4 big burly country boys went in to get the gator, and when they opened that freezer lid, 7' of very mad alligator jumped out Let me tell yall something, I had no idea that a half frozen and head shot gator could move so fast, nor could 4 half drunk country boys move so fast while squealing like little girls Problem was, in that little room there was nowhere for any of them to run. I wish I had the video camera running. It was something to see Something to hear too, and I was real glad that I wasn't in there with them.

So the gator was the first one to make it through the door and it was heading for the pond at high speed. I pulled out my little .380, but one of the boys jumped on it so I couldn't shoot, then a couple more jumped on it. I didn't have that much to drink, so I put up the pistol and watched the show. It was pretty good, the gator whipped all comers, beat them bloody and threw them all over the lot, and next thing ya know, splash, next weeks cookout was back in the pond and swimming away Easy come, easy go It's going to take those boys a while to heal up

We'll get back to the seafood in a few minutes.....

[TRC886]

Great story, Cracker When are you going to write your book I'd like to pre-order a copy

[Cracker Larry]

You can't make this stuff up

Back to that low country boil, a couple of the neighbors went shrimping yesterday and a couple went crabbing. The shrimpers caught about 20 pounds and the crabbers caught 93. For some reason they counted them They launched the boats at noon and were back home at 4pm.

We always cook for a crowd and feed the multitudes, so this recipe might be larger than you need

Start with a 40 gallon steamer pot and 10 gallons of water. A box of salt and a box of spicy Old Bay seasoning. Bring it to a boil and add 15 pounds of homemade deer and pork sausages, made by 4 or 5 different people, some of it real spicy , some not, cut into slices, and 12 whole peeled sweet onions. Steam that for 20 minutes. Add 24 unpeeled red new potatoes (from the garden) and 24 ears of corn from the gator field. Steam that for 20 minutes. Then add 93 live blue crabs and 20 pounds of shrimp. Bring back to boiling and steam it 6 more minutes.

[Aripeka Angler]

That boil looks awesome Cooking some grouper and veggies on the grill right now

[TRC886]

by TRC886 » Sun Aug 19, 2012 2:47 pm

Great story, Cracker When are you going to write your book I'd like to pre-order a copy

( What happened to the smilies in that post )

You can't make this stuff up

I guess it did sound like I thought the story was made up, but I didn't take it that way. It was meant as a compliment, saying that you have a flair for telling about happenings/events

[TRC886]

You're making me h-onn-gry

[Cracker Larry]

I guess it did sound like I thought the story was made up, but I didn't take it that way.

No, not at all, I didn't take it like that at all

My line "You can't make this stuff up" is an often repeated comedy line, who's origin I don't exactly know. I was thinking maybe Ron White but I think it's really older than that. Google searches gives me mostly Obama hits

http://www.google.com/#q=you+can%27t+ma ... 80&bih=829

[Aripeka Angler]

I cooked my last Alaskan silver salmon fillet last night I should go get some more

The marinade...

1/4 cup each olive oil, soy sauce, lemon juice
2 cloves cruched garlic
2 teaspoons dijon mustard
dash of basil, parsley, pepper, rosemary

Marinade the fish for an hour in the fridge. It was raining sideways,(and I was out of charcoal) so I baked the salmon for 15ish mins. at 450' with some veggies...







We served it up with some orzo and green beans from the garden...



The fish turned out pretty good imho

[cali123]

Beautiful presentation .