how I miss squid..... 8)

tule peak timber · February 08, 2020, 10:01:56 PM

My wife finally brought home some fresh squid today. 6$ a pound! When I fished I used right at 1 ton a week for bait fresh off the purse seiners and it cost me a bottle JD....I iced/salted this magnificent creature and used it for bait to catch deep water rockfish.In the 80-90's I was a real player with significant numbers .I miss my fishing life sometimes...

YellowHammer · February 08, 2020, 10:05:47 PM

That's some good catching. Deep,water, eye popping swim balder blowing fishing. The squid looks good.

tule peak timber · February 08, 2020, 10:18:23 PM

250 - 300 fathoms , 75-100 miles off shore, delivered with beating hearts every week to downtown Los Angeles. Very good fish- mostly 40-75 years old. Raw izumi die Japanese market and the rest to fresh Chinese consumers.
Squid was once very cheap, delicious seafood-it is still delicious but times have changed, >:(

WV Sawmiller · February 08, 2020, 10:30:16 PM

That's hitting below the belt! I love calamari and have not had any in years. When I was working a project in southern Norway there was an oriental market there where I would get frozen cuttlefish. I'd cut them crosswise into rings, dip them in tempura batter and deep fry them in a cast iron wok I had found there. I ate them with a Thai Sweetened chili sauce that was sweet and spicy. Boy were they good. I've got to go get a bib now as you have me drooling on myself. digin_2

tule peak timber · February 09, 2020, 08:27:04 AM

We eat them sauted, chilled and tossed in a salad, and even dried Korean style.I would take squid over lobster.I'm trying something new tonight , so I will need to trot along right now............ 8)

Jeff · February 09, 2020, 08:54:27 AM

Quote from: tule peak timber on February 09, 2020, 08:27:04 AMI'm trying something new tonight , so I will need to trot along right now............

Horse?

tule peak timber · February 09, 2020, 09:13:59 AM

Stay tuned........ ;D

WV Sawmiller · February 09, 2020, 10:23:10 AM

It's awful dark meat but really lean. :D

sawguy21 · February 09, 2020, 11:28:21 AM

8) I have yet to try a seafood I don't like. Properly prepared calamari is a real delicacy, not done right it is like shoe leather.

tule peak timber · February 09, 2020, 01:51:33 PM

Rain and snow flurries at noon today so I'm cooking EARLY. Pig feet to be braised in chicken broth , garlic , shallots, parsley roots, wine, spices.Baby collards, black carrots, and a BBQ chicken because the wife and grand daughter won't eat feet...... :D

Skip · February 09, 2020, 03:42:31 PM

Kinda hard to get full on pigs feet . :

RichTired · February 09, 2020, 06:17:46 PM

I have never been hungry enough to eat pig's feet and I sure hope I never get that hungry... :D

WDH · February 09, 2020, 06:54:34 PM

The pickled ones are a bit tart. Vinegar does that.

pesaventoc · February 09, 2020, 07:21:44 PM

Conch and welk used to be cheap and plentiful also. no more. i'll trade you three pounds of squid for a pound of cracked conch. Better still, let's sit down to a calamari, fried conch, and clam dinner.Mmmmm...

tule peak timber · February 09, 2020, 08:59:30 PM

And the results-delicious to say the least.Out west our snails and clams are different but also good and I will hold you to your dinner suggestion. Good food is where you find it. Cheers !

pesaventoc · February 10, 2020, 01:01:07 PM

Best times of my life. Live'n on a sailboat and the marsh for a grocery store.

WV Sawmiller · February 10, 2020, 01:45:23 PM

I cry foul and devious trickery and deceit on the pigs feet being added to a food thread about squid. That is about the worst case of bait and switch I have seen in a long time. For shame, for shame! I hope you are appropriately and duly contrite for your misdeeds! :D

"May feral pigs root up your favorite garden patch in retribution."

tule peak timber · February 10, 2020, 03:09:03 PM

I'm suffering from hoof in mouth ????

doc henderson · February 10, 2020, 03:52:20 PM

I am sure it is good, and trust your opinion. I see no reason to try it for myself!

millwright · February 10, 2020, 06:01:17 PM

I've had pigs feet and horse meat, but not quite sure about eating squid.

YellowHammer · February 10, 2020, 06:44:03 PM

I saw the picture of the exploded slug thing on the plate with the green stuff with the little bean looking stuff and went "Urppp." :D :D

I am a delicate person.....

tule peak timber · February 10, 2020, 07:01:48 PM

One more for the strong stomach folks is a squid pronounced She-un kara. Shiokara - Wikipedia This is Japanese dish, hard to find, obscure, STRONG, slimy, and to me very good. You take a 1 pound neon flying squid (big) remove all the digestive tract, skin, and dice the mantle into little pieces. Mix the guts with the diced meat and cover under refrigeration for a week. Remove and salt HEAVILY to stop the biological self digestion and serve in small bowels with chop sticks . Soft long, strings of slime reek of fish on steroids- it is a lot like eating the foulest of cheeses. For the next snot strings I will prepare Natto in another post soon.... ;D

WV Sawmiller · February 10, 2020, 07:08:35 PM

After that description I'm ready to go back to looking at pig's feet. :(

doc henderson · February 10, 2020, 07:18:39 PM

a few of us @YellowHammer and @WV Sawmiller appear to be stricken with a Victorian constitution. all those in favor please place the back of your non dominant hand to you forehead, and faint.

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Old Greenhorn · February 10, 2020, 08:09:13 PM

Quote from: tule peak timber on February 10, 2020, 07:01:48 PMit is a lot like eating the foulest of cheeses. For the next snot strings I will prepare Natto in another post soon.... ;D

Pretty soon this thread is gonna need to be removed to 'restricted topics' because some of this stuff is more upsetting than the stuff I read in restricted topics in general. :D ;D
Kind of like that commercial with the 2 coons eating garbage and one turns to the other and says 'Try this, it's rally bad, totally gross, try it.'