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Post by Clipper on Aug 30, 2020 9:12:28 GMT -5
We were ecstatic to find some frozen haddock filets at Kroger. The first attempt to fry them to resemble what we are used to eating at fish fry dinners in CNY was a bit of a failure. They came out soggy and didn't want to brown or crisp up.
Yesterday I took thawed filets, blotted them dry with paper towels, placed them a plate lined with the towels, changing the towels several times, until the filets were dry to the touch. I followed instructions that came with the air fryer for breading them. I sprayed them with an olive oil cooking spray and dredged them in seasoned flour, dipped them in an egg wash, then into the some bread crumbs and finally into the fridge to rest and to let the breading dry a bit and adhere to the fish.
Kathy cooked french fries in the air fryer while I fried the fish in the carport because Kathy doesn't like to smell up the house by cooking fish inside. The filets came out great. Crispy on the outside and moist and flaky on the inside. It was delicious and brought back memories of Friday nights back in NY. A sizeable filet of haddock, a scoop of coleslaw and a handful of home made fries left us both pleasantly full and happy to have finally found the secret to making the frozen haddock, which is seldom available here closely resemble the taste and texture of the good old fashioned CNY fish fry.
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Post by chris on Aug 30, 2020 11:03:53 GMT -5
The Polish restaurant here by me uses panko bread crumbs. Really nice and crunchy on the outside. Better than batter I think.
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Post by kit on Aug 31, 2020 8:05:15 GMT -5
I'm not much of a fish eater and am confused. Is haddock or halibut the fish used here in the Utica/Rome area for the traditional fish fry?
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Post by Clipper on Aug 31, 2020 9:42:05 GMT -5
Haddock is the most popular Kit, and some restaurants use whitefish. Halibut is much oilier and fishy tasting. Here in our area if you order fish and chips or a fish fry it will most likely be cod or catfish. We were quite excited to find haddock, even though it was frozen and packaged. The first attempt came out soggy but after doing the drying process with paper towels and letting the breading set and adhere in the fridge before frying, it came out much like the real McCoy. NOTHING can match or beat the fresh haddock Friday fish fry dinners we ate weekly when living up there.
Do they have Captain D's restaurants in that area? They have fried or broiled whitefish filets. They have a senior citizen day, as well as a special and a buffet with fish, chicken tenders, fries, mac and cheese, a couple of veggies, hush puppies, and cole slaw available. Much better than the average fast food fish available here. On the regular menu they offer two or three different varieties of fish, and also shrimp.
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Post by Ralph on Aug 31, 2020 12:10:28 GMT -5
Keeping them dry is the biggest part of the secret Clipper!
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Post by Clipper on Aug 31, 2020 16:29:13 GMT -5
Yep, but no matter what you do with them, they still are not as flaky and fresh once they have been frozen and thawed. They were mighty good though when you don't see haddock on a regular basis in our markets. There is only one fish market in this entire area and it is in Kingsport. Even their "fresh" fish is not as fresh as we are used to living near the coast up there. I did go there a week or so ago and picked up a filet of Atlantic wild caught salmon. I don't remember what it weighed exactly but I cut it into four decent size pieces. It was $23. It reminded me how lucky you are in NY State to have the Salmon River salmon run to catch fresh salmon. I used to put away about 30 or 40 lbs of it a year pressure canned and some frozen, plus what we ate the day I brought a fish or two home. Fifteen or twenty pound fish were not unusual and were ideal for eating. Larger ones got oily and strong flavored. Frozen filets were great with lemon and dill sauce, and the canned made excellent salmon patties for either and entree or a sandwich on a nice roll.
Now that I have lost so much weight and feel so much better I should rekindle my interest in fishing. So far I have only gone fishing twice with young Nathan and we fished for panfish and small catfish, just for the fun of catching them and throwing htem back.
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Post by chris on Sept 1, 2020 7:49:13 GMT -5
Speaking of fishing did anyone see on the news Yesterday of a girl fishing with her dad and next thing she sees are whales behind here jumping . How awesome was that?
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Post by Clipper on Sept 1, 2020 10:12:56 GMT -5
Speaking of fishing did anyone see on the news Yesterday of a girl fishing with her dad and next thing she sees are whales behind here jumping . How awesome was that? 🐳🐳🐳 I saw it yesterday Chris. What an awesome experience for them. How neat that they got their own private whale watching experience and so close up. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2020 15:49:44 GMT -5
If you get a chance to go to Boston you can watch them jump.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Sept 1, 2020 16:24:09 GMT -5
We had a great whale watching experience on our Alaska cruise. A whale breached multiple times. Imagine something the size of a school bus coming completely out of the water. I kept trying to get a picture but all I got was pictures of ripples after the splashdown.
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Post by Clipper on Sept 1, 2020 17:04:21 GMT -5
I have been on two whale watching excursions. One out of Boston and one out of Provincetown Mass. We saw plenty of whales but none that breached that close to the boats. I was talking to a crewmember from the P'town boat after we docked and he said that they locate the whales from the air with a plane or chopper and radio the GPS coordinates to the boats. He said sometimes the boats have to go an hour or more out of port to locate a pod of whales to view.
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