[Sca-cooks] Advanced Fish Usage
Susan Fox
selene at earthlink.net
Wed Oct 11 12:16:20 PDT 2006
>> In the interests of getting all the use out of all the fish parts, I have
>>
> some ideas and questions.
>
>> 1) I know the fish head has a good bit of meat on the cheeks which can be used. So that's good where you can use bits of fish.
>>
Yup. Any meat you can liberate is Good. Many fish carry extra fat in
the "cheeks" aka "collar" area. Any decent sushi bar offers salmon or
yellowtail collar, grilled to your order. An intelligent and thrifty
use of parts that are hard to cut in the sushi fashion and mighty tasty too.
>> 2) I understand the eyeballs are good in soup. I have never seen or tried this. Anyone know of more or other uses?
>>
I seem to recall an episode of Tony Bourdain's show where he is
persuaded to try fish eyes, which he seemed to like well enough. Tasted
pretty much like the rest of the fish with the bonus that they had no bones!
>> 3) Shrimp tails make a good fish stock.
>>
Oh yes, and the rest of the shells as well. Same for other edible
crustaceans as well. A Navy vet I know told me the story once that when
he was training as a diver in the Philippines, he and his mates used to
bring up lobsters. They brought the lot to their Philippino cooks and
asked them to cook the lobsters. The cooks said Okay but we want half.
Wheew, that sounded like a steep price but the Navy divers agreed. But
the cooks didn't take half of the lobsters, they took the head half of
each lobster which was apparently the key ingredient in their favorite
luxurious soup. The Americans preferred the nice meaty tails anyway so
everybody was happy.
>> 4) What other strategies do you know of?
When you are done with your fish heads in question #1, chuck'em in the
stock pot! Eat'em up, yummm! Pretty much any part of any non-poisonous
fishie may be used thusly. Or... grind up whatever's left and use it as
fertilizer in your garden.
Selene
Selene
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