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.

smiley_clapping

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.'

YellowHammer · February 10, 2020, 08:24:22 PM

Most of the time my squid reaches that stage of its "life" I end up having to pressure wash it off the side of my boat because I was using it for bait the day before.

WDH · February 10, 2020, 08:39:48 PM

For some strange reason, this talk of squid reminds me of this song:

I Lobster Never Flounder

I was a cook
and she was a waitress
Down at the Salty Sam Seafood Café

and somewhere 'tween the clam juice and the seaweed salad

some little shrimp just lured her away

Oh, I lobster and never flounder
He wrapped his line around her
and they drove off in his carp
Oh, I lobster and never flounder
I octopus his face in
Eel only break her heart

I said, "Just squid and leave me
for that piano tuna
if you want to trout something new"
She was the bass I ever had
Now my life has no porpoise
Oh, my cod, I love her, yes, I do

Oh, I lobster and never flounder
He wrapped his line around her
and they drove off in his carp
Oh, I lobster and never flounder
I octopus his face in
Eel only break her heart
(Spoken:)
"Boy, I swordfish she'd come back to me, Sandy. I
shore'd a whale of a time." "Now, Richard, you know
she'd just pull that 'Not tonight, I've got a haddock'
routine." "You're probably right. But y'know, I've
kelped her picture in my walleye just for the halibut.
I wonder if she's still got mine in her perch?" "Did
you, you say 'perch'?" "Yeah, I'm afraid so." "That's
good. For a moment there, I thought I was losing my
herring." "Well, we bass squid all this seahorsing 
around before these people out here go into a state of shark." 
"Yeah, if we get out of here alive, it's going to be a mackerel." 
"Frankly scallop, I don't give a clam."

tule peak timber · February 10, 2020, 09:06:49 PM

Swordfish cheeks, crab butts, and head butter- boy I miss fishing 8)

WV Sawmiller · February 10, 2020, 09:14:58 PM

@doc henderson ,

I think we have a patient for you! Looks like @WDH got into those mushrooms @LeeB posted about earlier and they've driven him off the dock. :D

doc henderson · February 10, 2020, 09:19:50 PM

:D :D :D sadly, I thought it was kinda puny. :D :D :D

sawguy21 · February 10, 2020, 09:55:45 PM

Quote from: millwright on February 10, 2020, 06:01:17 PM
I've had pigs feet and horse meat, but not quite sure about eating squid.

Haven't to the best of my knowledge been fed horse meat although some places I have dined at have been pretty sketchy. :D Pigs feet are quite tasty as is squid but both need to be properly prepared.

Texas Ranger · February 10, 2020, 10:17:45 PM

I have eaten every thing mentioned so far (except the snot stuff) including horse, and the very worse I have ever eaten was blutwurst in Germany or maybe the grease sausage. But hey, anything is eatable to some body. digin_2 digin_2

TimRB · February 10, 2020, 11:07:46 PM

Quote from: millwright on February 10, 2020, 06:01:17 PM
I’ve had pigs feet and horse meat, but not quite sure about eating squid.

Well, there's your problem. Go to a good Italian or seafood place and call it "calamari".

When I was a kid we used to buy squid for crab trap bait. If anyone had told me I would eventually not only eat it, but actually love it, I'd have told him he's crazy.

Tim

Ianab · February 11, 2020, 02:57:10 AM

Quite partial to seafood myself, including calamari.

Dinner for 2 at Sails restaurant in Rarotonga last trip.

QuoteSeafood platter for 2. Curried Octopus, grilled mussels, scallops, prawns, seared marlin steaks, ika mata (raw yellowfin tuna marinated in lemon and coconut cream) and some assorted stuff to fill in the gaps

Good seafood in Rarotonga, being surrounded by ocean and all that. digin1

tule peak timber · February 11, 2020, 10:01:04 AM

And natto for breakfast this morning !

sawguy21 · February 11, 2020, 11:30:18 AM

Never seen that before. What is it?

tule peak timber · February 11, 2020, 12:17:00 PM

Natto is a fermented soybean. Note the threads of bacteria. Very strong smelling- again like a cheese. An acquired taste--------.

Nebraska · February 11, 2020, 09:20:52 PM

Wow you eat some strange stuff. I would struggle mightily to eat soybeans like that. I smell enough spilled soybeans around farms after they get rained on during harvest.... no good. I am also out on the feet it's kind of a job thing. Although you might not care for my oysters. ;)

WV Sawmiller · February 11, 2020, 09:33:18 PM

@Nebraska ,

Which brings up the eternal question - How drunk was the first guy who ever tried to eat a raw oyster? :D

I love them fried but a raw one is a waste of a good fried oyster. And I am severely disillusioned about how badly Tule Peak has abused these squid on this thread. >:(

Old Greenhorn · February 11, 2020, 09:39:46 PM

It's really a shame you can only hit 'like' once for a post. ;D :D

tule peak timber · February 11, 2020, 09:41:26 PM

I think he is referring to testicles, and yes--- hot and steaming from the sack and swinging from the Vas deferens. Off of a freshly killed ram....... :(

WV Sawmiller · February 11, 2020, 10:40:36 PM

arg-smiley

You're going from bad to worse.

Andries · February 11, 2020, 10:49:09 PM

Stop now Rob!
My virgin eyes are

Graphic stuff - even more graphic than @Magicman body part photos!
There is this place called the WOODSHED, y'know?

I've only been there once . . . .

Nebraska · February 11, 2020, 10:55:28 PM

Maaaybeeee. 8)

Texas Ranger · February 11, 2020, 11:50:25 PM

You are entering the twilight zone: The individual is quietly going about it's business, obtaining and preparing food. It is at home, a lovely little shell home near the beach. Suddenly a craft appears overhead, and a strange creature comes down and takes you up to the strange craft. Your intelligence cannot help you escape from this nightmare, you are cleaned, prepared, cooked, and consumed. You are a squid.

Science fiction of the squid world.