For some reason my dog didn't seem to mind. I guess he doesn't have quite the refined taste that you seem to have.....
Something going on on the mountain today involving Gator Baseball, the BGE, rack ribs, and ice cold longnecks and chilled wine. I like it! Life is good in Gator Nation!
All good stuff, especially the redfish. Snook is one of the best tasting fish I’ve ever had. Could eat it for breakfast lunch and dinner
Agree @shane4three, snook is a very tasty salt water fish for us as well. Redfish is excellent as long as the gray portion of meat is trimmed out of it. I’m sure that I can speak for Ms. Jan and myself to include Gulf Grouper, Mahi-mahi, and Gulf Shrimp as our favorites. And fresh Walleye is as good as fresh water fish can get, again IMHO.
Been a while for me and fresh walleye but man oh man that taste never leaves my memory. I’m with you on the mahi-mahi too for sure
FWIW, those seaweed wraps were awful. Very chewy. Gotta go in a different direction here..... Working on my new Volvo. Just replaced the ABS module and the dang light is still on. Putting a dash cam in now. Just came inside to fetch a micro-SD card. You'd think these companies would supply one with the camera. Later on I will work on the radio replacement. Going with the same double din Pioneer I installed in my truck. Dialing her in!
Cedar Key clams are in reality farm raised and they are pretty good. Farm raised fish usually is awful. Fit for dogs. LOL. Tilapia can be fried for a sandwich and is edible, but not great. I would never search it out for making dinner. Farm raised shrimp can be OK in spicy dishes where I want more of the texture than the flavor, like when I make pickled shrimp with serrano chilies and sliced fennel. When you want the shrimp flavor to shine ain't nothing better than wild caught gulf shrimp.
Getting a snook to cook usually means catching one yourself unless you have a REALLY good friend that fishes. It is a sport fish. Add cobia to the really good tasting fish from the Gulf.
The best fish I ever ate was native brook trout caught in northern Wisconsin and fried in butter for breakfast. The brookies were swimming in the bucket water minutes before being cooked and only about 6 to 8 inches long. I remember the boy that brought them to my great aunt that was the school teacher in a small town north of Green Bay. I think I was five or six years old when I ate them and it still is one of my favorite tastes.
It has been a long time since I ate snook. Kind of like grouper IIRC which means that it is awesome. As for redfish I ate a lot of it that I caught back in the 1960's when on vacation to Estero Island and it was on the "fishy" side. It was OK and not a fish that I really wanted to catch for dinner. I much preferred flounder. Sheepshead was also tasty. And then a NOLA chef blackened them and they were all the rage.
Lurk— If you have a chance to cook any more redfish if you’ll cut that gray portion of meat away from the underside that will help eliminate the “fishy” taste you referred to.
Your post reminded me of a dinner from 1982 when I was newly married to a girl/woman that grew up in Cincinnati. She told me she didn't like fish and from the kind of fish she was probably served in her youth I could understand why. But I got some grouper and prepared it for dinner. Her comment was "It's not bad. Kind of tastes like chicken." My reply was "Next time I will prepare grouper for me and cook you some chicken." She has come around over the years.
OK, change of plans with tonight's dinner. Warmed up frozen pizza and tortellini salad. Not what I wanted, but I was overruled.
On a different note both for me and my MIL that lives in a unit we built on our property, but we are now both "fully vaccinated". I got to hug her for the first time in a year and I love her. We are getting over this. Don't think that we are totally over this. Think about the Falcons and when it looked like they had it won.
We are dining on Alan’s mountain after picking up Mexican from Pueblo’s here in Jasper, Ga. The girls are going with Frozen Margaritas and Alan and I are enjoying ice cold Amber Dos Equis longnecks. Beautiful afternoon and sunset on the mountain. Life is good in Gator Nation!
You sometimes have to do what somebody thinks is correct even if you don't think it is correct. It not being a big deal I will give it up.
If you ever had my margaritas you would never choose Dos Equis instead. And "frozen" margaritas is an abomination. It is just trying to hide bad tequila.
