Seafood

21-09-2019 10:32PM

One of my favorite things to make is a fish curry. Love making chowders and stews too but it's curry mainly.

Some people just have a problem with the various textures or grew up in houses where it was only served deep fried in batter or breaded fingers, and never saw it as a regular dinner table staple like beef or chicken.

Not a huge fan of sushi or sashimi though.

punisher5112 · 21-09-2019 10:33PM

Candie wrote: »

One of my favorite things to make is a fish curry. Love making chowders and stews too but it's curry mainly.

Some people just have a problem with the various textures or grew up in houses where it was only served deep fried in batter or breaded fingers, and never saw it as a regular dinner table staple like beef or chicken.

Not a huge fan of sushi or sashimi though.

You devil.... Chicken curry the only way...

Airyfairy12 · 21-09-2019 10:33PM

I love seafood but would never buy it prepackaged from a supermarket, I think supermarket packaged meats and seafood is disgusting. Its not fresh, it's processed, could have been dead for weeks, sourced from another country, touched by loads of different people and low quality.
Local butchers and fishmongers source their meat and fish local from local butchers and fishermen, theyre fresh, better quality and not much difference in price like 2 or 3 euro's at the most.

21-09-2019 10:35PM

punisher5112 wrote: »

You devil.... Chicken curry the only way...

I make a few different kinds of chicken curry too! I have slow-cooker-curry-itis!

deisemum · 21-09-2019 11:18PM

I love fresh fish and have it at least 3 - 4 times a week. I'm fortunate to have a very good fishmonger near where I live.

JohnnyFlash · 21-09-2019 11:27PM

Shared this feast this evening with a bird I’m riding at the moment. Had a dozen oysters to start as well. Feel very sorry for people who don’t like this sort of food.

Jim 77 · 21-09-2019 11:32PM

I'm on a seafood diet. Every time I see food, I eat it.

jam_mac_jam · 21-09-2019 11:33PM

I can't understand how people say they don't like seafood. It's like saying you don't like veg or meat. There are many types. Raw meat looks pretty disgusting as well, especially a chicken.

Try it you might like it. Start with a fish finger.

I love fish all fish and shell fish could happily live in it forever. Packets of mixed fish are lovely in a fish pie or chowder.

JupiterKid · 22-09-2019 05:48AM

Well, I’m allergic to all seafood so I can’t eat it.

Smoked salmon and scampi looks and smells rather appetizing but for a lot of other types of seafood, especially seafood chowder, the smell of it is frankly revolting and makes me feel rather ill.

22-09-2019 06:18AM

Always liked fish but only got into seafood when I moved out of Ireland. It's delicious and healthy. I'm even getting into snails recently since they're so popular here.

patsy mulcaghy · 22-09-2019 06:25AM

Smashed this bad boy in a little fishing village Benitses, down the Corfu coast.

Graces7 · 22-09-2019 06:39AM

One of my previous landlords who loved fishing once gave me a whole fresh caught sea bass. innards and all... was used to gutting after the North sea island.

They love winkles out here; I was offered them but no! I very occasionally am
given a couple of mackerel. As others have said, fresh fish is expensive. .tends to be the occasional fish finger or two, but would love some fresh white fish

paulbok · 22-09-2019 08:20AM

o1s1n wrote: »

Sometimes it really amazes me how many picky eaters live on this island.

Seafood is amazing and incredibly varied, you shouldn't just cast it all aside in one go.

Yep, just stick to safe, cremated steak with chips. Can't be doing with anything Mammy didn't serve up.

paddylonglegs · 22-09-2019 08:32AM

atilladehun wrote: »

Chowder

Chow-dare?

Chow-daaaaare?

It’s chow-dah

22-09-2019 09:15AM

I do love prawns, mussels, salmon.

Oxter · 22-09-2019 09:25AM

Seafood can be erotic - turn an opened oyster sideways before eating.

Earthhorse · 22-09-2019 09:50AM

Hate most seafood. Awful texture, terrible taste to the majority of it. And yes, I’ve tried it in top class restaurants.

Having said that I love smoked salmon and tuna in a sandwich.

The rest of it can go jump.

Planet X · 22-09-2019 09:53AM

Regularly make this........cheap, filling and relatively easy, you're just cooking rice.....

munchkin_utd · 23-09-2019 03:50PM

JupiterKid wrote: »

Well, I’m allergic to all seafood so I can’t eat it.

Smoked salmon and scampi looks and smells rather appetizing but for a lot of other types of seafood, especially seafood chowder, the smell of it is frankly revolting and makes me feel rather ill.

Not medically allergic myself but I am "allergic" to the smell, and if food smells horrendous or looks horrendous then you should avoid it.

Chowder is indeed the worst. Do they leave the shít to ferment in the hotel sauna for a week to increase the smell or what happens to it?
Similarily any fish in a restaurant in Ireland seems to stink to high heaven, and as for shell fish, christ.......

Funnily, I was once at a do in a fish lodge in the alps (so... 1000km+ inland), a wee wooden hut beside a private lake where they source the fish. I was dreading the smell of it surrounded by work colleagues all eating the stuff but in the end it was completely neutral, zilch, not even the faintest whiff - which really goes to show how the stink of fish in Ireland really isnt necessary, if only they could get fresh material.

jam_mac_jam · 23-09-2019 03:59PM

munchkin_utd wrote: »

Not medically allergic myself but I am "allergic" to the smell, and if food smells horrendous or looks horrendous then you should avoid it.

Chowder is indeed the worst. Do they leave the shto ferment in the hotel sauna for a week to increase the smell or what happens to it?
Similarily any fish in a restaurant in Ireland seems to stink to high heaven, and as for shell fish, christ.......

Funnily, I was once at a do in a fish lodge in the alps (so... 1000km+ inland), a wee wooden hut beside a private lake where they source the fish. I was dreading the smell of it surrounded by work colleagues all eating the stuff but in the end it was completely neutral, zilch, not even the faintest whiff - which really goes to show how the stink of fish in Ireland really isnt necessary, if only they could get fresh material.

Such nonsense, there are loads of places in Ireland that serve fresh fish. If you served gone off fish people would be sick. Freshwater fish don't smell as much as salt water fish.

Snow Garden · 23-09-2019 04:09PM

atilladehun wrote: »

Chowder

Say it right!!

IAMAMORON · 23-09-2019 04:12PM

Fish fingers for me please. Also fresh cod from the chipper is something i love, especially on a fresh day. I love eating chowder, smoked haddock and brown bread. Barbecue shellfish like lobster or languistine with chilli prawns and crustaceans and melted pepper butter halved onto fresh vienna rolls sprinkled with olive oil. Salted mackeral smoked and sage and eaten cold on pitta bread with fresh tomatoes finely diced and iceberg lettuce and tarter sauce. Prawn cocktail, mountains of it washed down with ice cold glasses of Riesling and Austrian gewurztrammer(advice on spelling required), sauted anchovies and mussels sprinkled with cheddar cheese and black pepper.

munchkin_utd · 23-09-2019 04:14PM

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

Such nonsense, there are loads of places in Ireland that serve fresh fish. If you served gone off fish people would be sick.

are you saying that as a non fish eater I should go on a survey of fish restaurants or fancy restaurants which serve fish to see which ones are mildly to moderately stinky ?

Em, no. I go to normal restaurants and hotels and whenever fish is served it stinks - especially chowder which is on another level altogether.
My parents are at an age now that they find fish a lighter dish (and for the old teeth, easier to process!) so at every family function they inevitably go for it and I enjoy the fragrant waft of whetever they are having on the day.

Greyfox · 23-09-2019 04:44PM

Seafood is amazing and never smells bad when cooked, I feel sorry for those missing out on some of the best food out there. Salmon cooked perfectly is nicer then Pork, Steak, Chicken or Beef... and seafood is very good for you

jam_mac_jam · 23-09-2019 04:52PM

munchkin_utd wrote: »

are you saying that as a non fish eater I should go on a survey of fish restaurants or fancy restaurants which serve fish to see which ones are mildly to moderately stinky ?

Em, no. I go to normal restaurants and hotels and whenever fish is served it stinks - especially chowder which is on another level altogether.
My parents are at an age now that they find fish a lighter dish (and for the old teeth, easier to process!) so at every family function they inevitably go for it and I enjoy the fragrant waft of whetever they are having on the day.

No. I am saying that you haven't a notion of what you are talking about. You sound like a child, just because you don't like the smell of fish doesn't mean its not fresh.

wexandproud · 23-09-2019 05:11PM

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Shared this feast this evening with a bird I’m riding at the moment. Had a dozen oysters to start as well. Feel very sorry for people who don’t like this sort of food.

I have exported 1000's of tonnes of mussels over the past 25 years and i can tell you the ones featured here are pure dirt . If we sent them to Holland or Belgium they would be sent back . If you ever get a chance try and get a bag of mussels between july[ish] and December when they are at their best from the boats in either Carlingford or Wexford and you will see a huge difference . As with most fish in this country the best shellfish are Exported .

Thelonious Monk · 23-09-2019 05:19PM

Its so bizarre how many irish people wont eat seafood. Mackerel and hake are my fave. I asked in the food forum but just got tumbleweeds but does anyone know where to buy European prawns in dublin because all they sell in supermarkets are prawns from slave boats in India or environment wrecking farms on reclaimed land in central America?

topper75 · 23-09-2019 05:20PM

Sharp MZ700 wrote: »

Over 100million Japanese can't be all wrong.

:mad: Come on man - here we go again pretending the Icelandics don't exist. It's 101 million who are not wrong.

23-09-2019 05:26PM

Anchovies in a salad is the bomb.

Ipso · 23-09-2019 05:34PM

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Its so bizarre how many irish people wont eat seafood. Mackerel and hake are my fave. I asked in the food forum but just got tumbleweeds but does anyone know where to buy European prawns in dublin because all they sell in supermarkets are prawns from slave boats in India or environment wrecking farms on reclaimed land in central America?

Barbequed mackerel taste amazing, but as a fish they have a strong smell and can start to whiff very quickly. I can understand how possibly back in the day (without refrigeration, etc) if people only experienced them when they were off it would really out them off it.
I only has Hake once, really enjoyed. I remember old fellas talking about catching them back in the day but I never saw any being caught, they must have been severely over fished.

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