[Sca-cooks] Skate/ray scallops

[Arianwen ferch Arthur]

and I remember reading a book where kids fished and
cut scallops out or rays & sold them to a restaurant
which served them as scallops...

shark and ray/skate were sold as flake & hake (don't
remember which was which) when I was teaching in
Australia, my students went "yuck" or equivalent at
the idea of shark or ray but loved to cook and eat the
flake/hake.  Good thing they didn't read their text
books which told them what they were eating :-)
> 
> On Oct 4, 2008, at 12:10 PM, Deborah Hammons wrote:
> 
> > In the early 70"s Rhys and I were stationed on the
> island of  
> > Menorca.  Rhys
> > went snorkeling and brought back a sting ray that
> had a 6 foot  
> > wingspan.
> > Since we were swimming out of one of our local
> swim up tapa bars  
> > there, the
> > proprietor asked if he could "have" it.  He
> brought out a huge cutting
> > board, and after taking the wings off and skinning
> them. he used  
> > different
> > sized metal round "cookie cutters" to prepare the
> white meat of the  
> > wings.
> > Then he put them on the grill and served them to
> the bar patrons.  As
> > scallops.  When I asked him about it, he just
> shurgged and said,  
> > tourists,
> > what do they know?  It has made me pretty
> skeptical of the frozen  
> > ones.  But
> > now adays I think there is a little more positive
> control on what  
> > gets put
> > into those bags in the freezer.  One can hope.
> 
> 
> There's actually a pretty substantial difference
> between the flavor  
> and texture of scallops and shark/skate/ray (which
> all taste pretty  
> similarly to each other, although skate is
> noticeably more tender than  
> the others), But as the proprietor says, "Tourists.
> What do they know?"
> 
> I wouldn't even mind skate-wing "scallops". It's the
> surimi ones that  
> are really pretty horrid, but then to me the only
> acceptable form of  
> surimi is Chinese and called "fish cakes" or "fish
> balls".
> 
> Adamantius
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "Most men worry about their own bellies, and other
> people's souls,  
> when we all ought to worry about our own souls, and
> other people's  
> bellies."
> 			-- Rabbi Israel Salanter
> 
> 
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Arianwen ferch Arthur
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