Around here they aren't cheap on the half shell. Some places charge $4 a piece for non local varieties. I prefer the local oysters. Graveling Point or Cape May Salts are my favorites. A local place has them at Happy Hour for a buck a piece.
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What's your opinion on Sardines?
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Around here they aren't cheap on the half shell. Some places charge $4 a piece for non local varieties. I prefer the local oysters. Graveling Point or Cape May Salts are my favorites. A local place has them at Happy Hour for a buck a piece.
I love canned sardines. Canned salmon is even better. They are very good for growing puppy dogs. lots of good calcium for growing bones and joints.
This most stinky ones are in oil, I get mine in "spring water" The oil affects the taste of the sardines and they don't smell as strong..
If you want stinky this is another taste I developed as a kid. My maternal grandfather and I would be fishing drinking Nehi grape soda and munching on smoked herring. My grandfather love smoked herring but he had to get at least 10 miles away from my detested maternal grandmother to eat any of it which is why we went fishing. Other than eating it like jerky in cooking you use it like canned anchovies. If you are making a red sauce for Pizza, or a Marinara sauce. You cut off a chuck and slowly fry it in olive oil. The meat melts off the the bones like canned anchovies. Because it is smoked and dried the bones do not melt with the flesh so the just pick it out. This also works in BBQ sauces. Canadian is the best, and it is cheapest to buy on eBay.
I just ordered 3 pounds of Smoked Herring, it is hard to find around here these days.
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audiotemp
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The store next door where they sell crackers must do good business.
onepixel
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Funny... the only time I remember having a cracker, was flying on Hawaiian Airlines from Maui to S.F.
Bill Ferris
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Onepixel, I`m like a kid in a candy shop looking at those multi type lovely Oyster`s offering`s pictures, as its been almost 2 decades since I`ve physically visited a truly fresh seafood market place, as they can be a very addiction enabling and money depleting place for me and my credit card with very large Igloo cooler with a bed of ice in tow through the front door !
Ordin Aryguy
Active Member
Growing up in a family in which all of my grandparents immigrated from Sweden in the very early 1900's was incredibly enlightening in so many ways. What we ate was generally the foods familiar to our grandparents, which based on when they grew up was old-school Swedish, simple food. And eat we did! I'd give up the possibility of having even one more fast food hamburger for the rest of my days if I could have some of grandma's pickled herring again.
There's a traditional dish served around Christmas time. My great uncle Kip always insisted that lutefisk "separated the believers from the non-believers." I'm not sure what that belief is, or is not, but lutefisk will definitely separate Swedes from everyone else.
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Sardines, especially smoked, on Swedish hard tack... Making myself hungry, and longing for simpler times.
There's a traditional dish served around Christmas time. My great uncle Kip always insisted that lutefisk "separated the believers from the non-believers." I'm not sure what that belief is, or is not, but lutefisk will definitely separate Swedes from everyone else.
Lutefisk - Wikipedia
Sardines, especially smoked, on Swedish hard tack... Making myself hungry, and longing for simpler times.
brian222
Super Member
I was watching for the canned salmon mention. With malt vinegar and lettuce on rye.Good stuff.
As a child in grade school I packed a lunch to school . My mother included in my lunch box one of two things, a can of sardines, or Vienna Sausage. I absolutely love both to this day. The smoked herring was a Grandpa thing. I have a good source now and I was looking at how they are actually used and I can't wait to try them out, You fork out the meat from the bones, which by themselves are perfectly edible. Looking at recipes for salt smoked herring. While I was munching of them out of the package you are supposed to debone and pour boiling water over them to remove the excess salt. One of the uses was combining the herring with cream cheese on bagels, this sounds like manna from heaven, sorta like smoked salmon only a lot cheaper.
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onepixel
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Bill,
There are so many, had to try them all! Problem was I couldn't find a shucker!
Years ago driving through Rhode Island, found tons of oyster farms. Oh joy!
In Washington state, my brother took us clamming. As I was wandering around on the beach, found thousands of oysters just sitting there!
Good stuff!
I bought a set of paper thin glasses from a restaurant supply store in coimbra in 1995 on our honeymoon. Only have one left, the rest broke over the years. Loved Portugal.
Good, top quality tinned Sardines can be excellent.