Seafood is disgusting!

Earlier this year the wifey and I spent a very enjoyable weekend at the Loch Fyne resort in Inveraray. Included each evening was a 7 course taster meal, featuring all kind of local seafoods, and each one was delicious.

Seafood is an absolute treat, and considering the risks that the fishermen take to bring home the catch, it's undervalued in this country.
 
I had a fantastic Fish Stew at The Centurion Club on Saturday after the member guest comp, it was truly the best fish dish I have had to date, and I've had plenty home and abroad.

The owners wife whom I believe comes from Spain said it was her mothers recipe and quite simply I want it, huge chunks of fish, mussels, crab, king prawns & shrimp with Mediterranean vegetables, scrumptious with some rice
 
Valentino said:
Some folk have no culture.

Snelly, you're a man of class and I take my hat of to you, good seafood cooked properly is something to savour.
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Its very subjective Val, one mans class is another mans trash etc etc. Everyone is different and the place would be boring if we all enjoyed the same things.
When you mention culture, whos culture? again, we are all different.
 
A plate of Whitstable oysters accompanied with a pint or two of the black stuff is one of my favourite lunches...

Kippers are another of one of my favourite foods from the sea... And guess what they go down really well with ;)...
 
Crab sticks do not actually contain any crab, and from 1993 manufacturers have been legally obliged to label them crab flavoured sticks.
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Fish said:
I had a fantastic Fish Stew at The Centurion Club on Saturday after the member guest comp, it was truly the best fish dish I have had to date, and I've had plenty home and abroad.

The owners wife whom I believe comes from Spain said it was her mothers recipe and quite simply I want it, huge chunks of fish, mussels, crab, king prawns & shrimp with Mediterranean vegetables, scrumptious with some rice
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Nom nom nom.... oh yes please.

I love seafood, whether it be of the squidgy type all the way to a good battered cod.

One of my favourite meals is our Christmas Eve picnic. Various juicy bits of fish, crusty bread, Wensleydale cheese & a bottle or two of fizz sat on the hearth rug with the fire blazing after putting all the prezzies out.
 
Seafood is awesome! I love it. Wish it wasn't so blooming expensive though.

Moules frites is a world beater. Rock lobster tails dipped in lemon and garlic butter. A good monkfish stew. Salivating as I write....
 
brendy said:
Its very subjective Val, one mans class is another mans trash etc etc. Everyone is different and the place would be boring if we all enjoyed the same things.
When you mention culture, whos culture? again, we are all different.
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Just a tongue in cheek figure of speech Brendy.

Some people view on seafood is a batter fish from a chippy or chip van as seen on the Irish movie the van which I have to add is one of the funniest films I've ever seen.

Anyway I digressed a tad.

Up until recently I would always steer away from seafood but I have began to embrace it. Fresh tuna steaks hours old from the south Atlantic take a bit of beating, had this option with lots of other sea food every day for 2 weeks on the Ascension Island many years ago, unfortunately for me I only tried Tuna but now I'd try almost anything.
 
I make a mean monkfish curry.... I like seafood, fresher the better. Never had oysters though....
On another note, when I was at uni I worked in a pub and the 'fish man' used to come in with a wicker basket selling crab sticks, prawns, cockles and other bits and bobs.... He used to cover them in vinegar and pepper.... All this reminiscing, just told this the missus and she just threw up a little and called me a 'proper wooly back'. For those who don't know the term the Scouse contingent will be along to explain it ;)
 
must admit my Dad used to take me and my brother down the barra's to get mussels and whelks, we scoffed them down and followed it with a bowl of mushy peas:thup:
 
CMAC said:
is it just me that feels this way?

The way they look and smell, all jelly like for the most part, slimy to touch and my God! the smell after a couple of days would give you the dry Boak!

If you saw some of these 'expensive delicacies' walking down the street or scuttling away as you moved an old carpet in the garage you would soil yourself:eek:

And as to sitting near someone in a restaurant as they butcher a lobster is like watching the Texas Chain Saw Massacre meets Reservoir Dogs:eek:

..but charge a fortune and let Hercule Le pomdefruit prepare it for you and it's a delicacy for the discerning palet :rofl:


and as for Oysters........I can only imagine its like swallowing whatever you coughed up during a very heavy cold:eek:
aphrodiasiac my aunt fanny!



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No - but I love it.
 
Fish said:
I had a fantastic Fish Stew at The Centurion Club on Saturday after the member guest comp, it was truly the best fish dish I have had to date, and I've had plenty home and abroad.

The owners wife whom I believe comes from Spain said it was her mothers recipe and quite simply I want it, huge chunks of fish, mussels, crab, king prawns & shrimp with Mediterranean vegetables, scrumptious with some rice
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It was rather good wasn't it... :thup: the owners wife is from Chile btw....
 
CMAC said:
must admit my Dad used to take me and my brother down the barra's to get mussels and whelks, we scoffed them down and followed it with a bowl of mushy peas:thup:
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The good old days, did you get your photo took when you were there , I still have my barra's photo from 1962 with two old [now deceased] pals.
The barras you used to scratch for a week after a visit.:thup:
 
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