[Sca-cooks] A little tidbit for those planning Lenten dinner...

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Mar 10, 2006, at 10:20 PM, Sue Clemenger wrote:

> Mussels have beards.  Is that close enough?
> --Maire, in the mood for seafood, as long as it doesn't come with hair
> attached <shudder>

Yeah, I can just about stand the hair on the shells of some crabs,  
around the little tail flaps (it helps them hold onto eggs, I think),  
but it has always kind of grossed me out. I'm just glad I saw that  
photo on an empty stomach; I'm not a squeamish guy, normally, but  
that was... unfortunate.

Okay, on a marginally related note, who else cooked seafood  this  
evening?

My lady wife came home with some nice, fresh cod fillets <shrug>,  
which I cooked in an iron skillet on top of several cloves of chopped  
garlic and some brown butter; just laid the fillets on top of the  
browned butter and garlic, lowered the heat, covered the pan, and let  
it steam. The fish released some juice which mixed with the butter  
and made a sort of creamy, garlicky gravy for smashed potatoes (I had  
swirled the liquid around in the pan every couple of minutes during  
the cooking process.) Salt, crushed long pepper, and some chopped  
parsley on the fish, after the idea of capers in the sauce was  
subjected to "constructive criticism". Served with the aforeseyd  
potatoes, salt-water-blanched haricots vert (that's baby green beans  
to you), and a dill-flavored cucumber salad...

Next?

Adamantius

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nicholas S. Malone" <nix at iolinc.net>
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> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 10:51 AM
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> dinner...
>
>
>> What's next?  Bearded Clams?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: sca-cooks-bounces+nix=iolinc.net at ansteorra.org
>> [mailto:sca-cooks-bounces+nix=iolinc.net at ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of
> Johnna
>> Holloway
>> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 12:32 PM
>> To: Cooks within the SCA
>> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] A little tidbit for those planning Lenten
> dinner...
>>
>> I thought this one was even weirder--
>> http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/03/08/furry.lobster.ap/ 
>> index.html
>>
>> Johnnae
>>
>> Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200603/s1587181.htm
>>>
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