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Caring for yur herring, or, The Blind Robins Thread
Reply With QuoteWill work them around daily to insure all surfaces get brine contact. Thoroughly smeared brine into the chest cavities after this pic was taken. Cant believe how few folks I ax down here have never had smoked fish. My 2nd gig this morning is a lady of Finnish descent, from Michigan originally. We concluded that maybe this is somewhat of a northern thing due to the Scandinavian settlement there. Almost all country folks had an improvised Rube Goldberg smoker back home and like she said, wrapped in newspaper was the common means of transporting em. Carp and other similar rough fish (buffalo, redhorse, etc..) are excellent when smoked, chubs, lake trout, whitefish. Fatty fish take on the flavor of the brine & smoke better than lean, firm white-fleshed fish but they smoke up well also. I must find some fruit wood or in a pinch pecan cuz mesquite is too strong and I like hickory but it just dont taste right compared to a good fruitwood. Nobody up north torched an apple or pear tree for firewood, there was always demand for it in smoking, and alder also. As IBNFSHN discovered at some point, smoked fish is GOOD! You drop into any little municipal or small beer joint/bar up north and odds are someone will drag in a smoked eelpout wrapped in the Sunday paper
and the napkins come out and all enjoy, pat the gracious dude or lady on the back, and dig in.
Sabi, this is not "Marinated sheeps eyes" or whatever terminology you used in reference to my inconceivable culinary quirks yesterday.:p Every grocer around carries pickled herring and smoked salmon (lox). We need to expand yur culinary horizons. I am not one to say if ya try and something and dont like it that it aint the right of yur taste buds to draw that conclusion but we are not going to extremes and desperation measures to make a dog turd edible outta starvation here, this is some good eats dude. I just cant see a person turn up their nose over some pre-conceived notion. Who doesnt like bacon, a good pork chop, ham? Yet of all critters, a pig will do poopie and turn around & eat it like its cordon bleu. A chikkin aint much better about its' personal hygiene. My Dad would always pose the question "would you eat a horse?" Why heck no was the reply. Dad would give them the same reference to hogs I just made and then tell them if a horse gets turned around and happens to crap in its' feeder he wont even stick his nose in it to try eat the oats out from around it.
I think I make a valid point when I say that in the scheme of evolution, if somehow cats had been available and suited to grow & put on meat, today we would all be spending good $ to find a place heralded as having good food and be ordering up a Manx med. rare, or a Persian smothered in sauteed onions and covered with Hollandaise sauce.:D Those Vienna Sausage I snarfed on yur tub the day we fished the James I guarantee ya would leave you with post traumatic stress disorder if you ever toured a Hormel plant and
saw what goes in em, and nowhere near as cleanly handled, washed, pampered like my marinated sheeps eyes are.:D
Originally Posted by horseshoer
