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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2014 13:49:47 GMT -5
Sardines are the perfect Omega 3 food. Here is an idea I watched moments ago.
Chop some canned sardines and mix with mayo( I use olive oil mayo) add some lemon juice and pepper spread on saltine crackers or your favorite cracker. I am going to try it with some blue cheese. I guess you could add some horseradish.
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Post by Clipper on Dec 14, 2014 19:36:07 GMT -5
One of my favorite snacks while overseas was sardines packed in mustard sauce and saltine crackers. I will try the chopped up sardines with mayo, lemon and pepper, but having tried Hellman's olive oil mayo, I was not crazy about it. I use the regular Hellman's. Even their light mayo is not to my liking. Fussy old bugger I am, hahaha. I buy sardines all the time at the Dollar Tree. They usually have the plain ones and some packed in tomato sauce. If you like smoked oysters, Dollar Tree usually has them on the shelf also. Thanks for the tip Alan. Always looking for something for a light lunch or a mid afternoon snack, and what better than sardine salad on a cracker or a slice of crusty bread. If the dollar store sardines don't seem to be cutting it, I will go the "big bucks"  and buy the larger cans of higher quality sardines at the supermarket. |
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Post by kit on Dec 18, 2014 9:57:51 GMT -5
Normally I like most any food that's prepared properly and doesn't contain any random chemical additives, fillers, animal feces, ground glass or nasty stuff like that. Sardines, however, aren't at the top of my culinary enjoyment list. I can tolerate a little anchovy paste in a fresh Caesar Salad dressing, and I love pickled Herring in cream sauce, but that's it when it comes to those little swimming critters.
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Post by Clipper on Dec 18, 2014 11:16:16 GMT -5
I understand your feelings about products with random chemical additives Kit. Kathy is the same way. I, on the other hand lean toward eating what tickles my tastebuds and puts a smile on my face. I have a deep love for anchovies. I buy them and use them whole in many of my salads. Since going on this weight loss thing, and trying to eat better, I make a huge bowl of salad and keep it in the fridge. I use a half head of iceberg, a head of romaine, tomato, cucumber, celery, and Kalamata olives. I eat that salad at least once, and sometimes twice a day. If I make a meal of it, I add either a little julienned ham, chicken breast, or a few anchovies and some freshly shaved Parmesan. I have been disappointed since moving here to find that pizza parlors here do not have anchovies as an optional topping for pizza. I used to get pizza from 4 seasons in Marcy and order it with cheese, mushrooms, and anchovies.
I bought some of the dollar store sardines the other day, packed in brine. I had always bought them in oil before, but these were quite tasty and I tried Alan's recipe with mayo. I was not that crazy about it with mayo, but the dollar store sardines were not bad. I also bought a can in mustard sauce and they were great on crackers.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2014 16:31:42 GMT -5
Walmart has a Bosnian food section that really sells out fast. Yesterday a lady bought all the canned mackerel that was on the shelf save but one. I bought some of their nugget candy but I didn't taste anything. It had no flavor. They had some pretty big jars of pickeled pigs feet if anyone is interested. I had a friend whose family was from Sicily. When he made sauce he put a pigs foot in it and let is completely melt. Never cared much for his sauce.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2014 16:35:00 GMT -5
forgot to mention I noticed canned smoked octopus. I like octopus. Must check it out. I bought a packet of tuna. Never really noticed it before cause I always buy the one packed in water unless I want to make ziti with tuna sauce and then I buy the tuna packed in olive oil and sun dried tomato. Very good indeed. I tried the dry tuna pack and didn't like the taste.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2014 16:38:40 GMT -5
Normally I like most any food that's prepared properly and doesn't contain any random chemical additives, fillers, animal feces, ground glass or nasty stuff like that. Sardines, however, aren't at the top of my culinary enjoyment list. I can tolerate a little anchovy paste in a fresh Caesar Salad dressing, and I love pickled Herring in cream sauce, but that's it when it comes to those little swimming critters. I was watching some cook show recently and the guy was cooking a dish with sea urchin. Didn't look to good. |
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Post by Clipper on Dec 18, 2014 17:13:32 GMT -5
There are some things that a person simply has to be drunk to eat. Among those is pickled pigs feet, pickled lambs tongues, blind robins ( some sort of dried smoked fish), dried up pork rinds in a bag. I no longer drink and I no longer assault my tummy with such stuff, haha. I have had octopus sauteed with garlic and wine. I think they boiled hell out of it before sauteing it. It was not too bad, but not something I would buy to cook at home. It was rather like a tasteless chunk of rubber that tasted like the wine and garlic. It was put on top of fresh salad greens and tossed with a vinegarette. I was not impressed, haha.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2014 16:15:03 GMT -5
I like squid. I think a person has to know how to cook squid and octopus. I use my Mom's recipe for the squid in red sauce. I only had octopus once. The reason was I didn't know what I was going to get when this lady asked me to close my eye's and open my mouth and she dropped it in my mouth. I guess I surprised her when I said that I liked it. I remember watching a cooking show at the guy said it has to be cooked fast or else it taste's rubbery.
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Post by Clipper on Dec 19, 2014 16:43:33 GMT -5
I love squid. Fried calamari is my favorite appetizer. I also like it simply sauteed with garlic and wine. I think the biggest thing with octopus and squid is to avoid overcooking. I know from experience of cooking squid that there is a narrow window between under done and tough from over cooking. I have never tried to cook octopus. Hell, I have never even SEEN octopus in the market, but of course we don't see much fresh seafood here anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2014 16:51:50 GMT -5
I saw a octopus at Price Chopper in the fresh seafood section. I also saw a live one on some TV show awhile back.
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Post by Clipper on Dec 20, 2014 18:15:04 GMT -5
We don't get ANY fresh seafood here Alan. If we want haddock, it comes in a 3 lb bags of frozen filets (usually looking dry and freezer burned). One would think that seafood would be shipped in from the Carolinas or the Gulf Coast, but it doesn't seem that popular here. Farm raised Tilapia, farm raised catfish,and frozen cod fish seem to be the prevalent fishes available here.
The last time I saw a fresh octopus, it was in Shallotte NC at a seafood restaurant we ate at while on visiting Kathy's cousin there a couple years ago. They had a showcase with fresh fish and seafood on display on a bed of crushed ice. I had not had FRESH seafood in so long that I ordered the biggest Captain's Platter on the menu, gorged myself, but waddled out of there with a smile on my face.
The only time I had ever watched anyone eat boiled octopus and profess to love it, it was Andrew Zimmern from the food channel.Hell, he would eat the South end of a Northbound skunk anyhow, hahaha. I would venture to say that the only way octopus could be made palatable would be if an Italian grandmother cooked it. Heck those older ladies from East Utica could make a 6 inch length of 2x4 taste like filet mignon. I never ate tripe and enjoyed it anywhere other than in the kitchen of an Italian friend in the 60's. His mom made cow's stomach taste absolutely delicious as well as tender. Give me an Italian cook from East Utica any day as opposed to the finest French chef.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Dec 20, 2014 19:42:35 GMT -5
If you are going to get frozen I think the best are the cuts that are processed at sea and then vacuum packed and frozen immediately.
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Post by Clipper on Dec 20, 2014 22:43:13 GMT -5
We have simply given up on trying to cook most fish at home. I haven't fished the last couple of years due to my bad knees and the fact that we sold our pontoon boat, but prior to that we DID eat catfish and crappie that I caught when we had the boat tied up at the marina. I also caught freshwater hybrid striped bass that people here call rockfish. I caught a couple of them that were over 10lbs. I have heard bad things about eating farm raised fish due to the antibiotics that they put into the ponds, and in some cases, the polluted water in which they are raised.
If we want fish now, I simply swallow my pride and order fried fish in a restaurant. I order the fried version because the fish that has been frozen and thawed just cooks up mushy as hell and not flaky and succulent like the broiled fresh haddock we are used when we come to NY. If I see the vacuum packed fish, packed at sea when I go to Kroger's on Monday, I may give it a try. Thanks for the tip Clarence. I love GOOD fish and would be absolutely thrilled to find fish that was actually palatable in our local market.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2014 11:09:13 GMT -5
I haven't had tripe in many years. I have to bring back into my memory the way a friend of our family made it. The tripe was so tender and it was made with diced up potato then in a tomato broth. Delicious. Stanley is dead now so can't get his recipe.
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and buy the larger cans of higher quality sardines at the supermarket.
