Mr King Posted March 3, 2012 Posted March 3, 2012 Around here all the restaurants and taverns owned by locals usually have fish and chips on the menu on Fridays due to the large Catholic population. The two most common is Walleye and Catfish. The good places serve a whole deep fried catfish minus the head next to a heaping pile of crinkle cut french fries. Walleye is served filleted and deep fried on a bed of onions and rye bread. Again next to a heaping pile of french fries. I love a good piece of carp, but I cant find a place that serves it anymore. Carp gets a bad reputation, but if it is prepared right it is very delicious. Once is a while a place by me will serve fried cod. I really like cod covered in malt vinegar. Being in the midwest we tend to eat fresh water fish that is mild tasting and deep fried. You can find all the above fish at local fish fries along with crappie and blue gill. I will eat crappie no problem but I hate blue gill. They taste like scummy fishy pond water. Walleye can have that flavor to if it is not prepared right. On a side note you can always tell when Lent is rolling around because all the local fast food places will start heavily advertising fish sandwichs.
Corinthian Posted March 3, 2012 Posted March 3, 2012 Fish n' Chips. The one British food that IMO is a blessing to the world. I love it. The local version of McDonald's here used to serve its version (with French Fries and ranch dressing) during Lent. Now, no more. Over here, we usually use Cream Dory for fish n' chips. AFAIK, the nearest "British pub" (Union Jack Tavern - owned by a British expat) makes use of cream dory for the fish n' chips. Served with ketchup and a white looking mustard IIRC. At home, we usually use cream dory for the fish n' chips and the dip is ketchup and mayo mixed together.
Mr King Posted March 3, 2012 Author Posted March 3, 2012 Is tartar sauce common there? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartar_sauce Besides malt vinegar that is usually served with fried fish in the US.
Corinthian Posted March 3, 2012 Posted March 3, 2012 Bingo. Tartar sauce. I often confuse it with ranch dressing.
EchoFiveMike Posted March 3, 2012 Posted March 3, 2012 Properly cooked walleye or perch is truly excellent. The same can be said for catfish. My local bar serves cod chips, with large steak fries. I've never used carp for anything other than fertilizer. I used to bowfish for carp, and there was always somebody who'd want 'em. Heck, often as not, there'd be somebody who'd even pay for 'em. I once sold three bushel baskets full to these two old black guys for $15(back in the late 80's, was 3/4 tank of gas), we both thought we'd won the lottery. S/F....Ken M
Harold Jones Posted March 5, 2012 Posted March 5, 2012 Smoked carp is pretty good, pickled ain't bad.
Max H Posted March 5, 2012 Posted March 5, 2012 Is tartar sauce common there? http://en.wikipedia....ki/Tartar_sauce Besides malt vinegar that is usually served with fried fish in the US. Tartar sauce is common in the UK as well. Nothing beats a good bit of cod on a friday night
DKTanker Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 Tartar sauce is common in the UK as well. Nothing beats a good bit of cod on a friday nightWas at the market Friday last and saw they were offering cod (not something all together common in north TX) so it was traditional fish and chips that night. If one is looking for a firm tasty fresh water fish it is hard to go wrong with Whitefish from the Great Lakes. Lake Perch is certainly very good, as can be Walleye. Carp...yeah, I've never developed a taste for it.
Max H Posted March 19, 2012 Posted March 19, 2012 The company I work for has released a series of videos on how the food/drink they serve is prepared - here's the video on the hand battered cod:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBsRTq1g0FQNot shown:cod slipping out of the tongs (we have a box of disposable gloves to do it with instead)cod falling apart in the battercod sticking to the side/bottom of the fryer and falling apart when you try and remove itand by "secret recipe" they mean the batter arrives at the pub ready made & frozen - cod comes frozen too (caught in north east atlantic, packed in china according to the box. Don't ask me why ). The batter takes two days in the fridge to defrost. Also, notice how he didn't batter the part of the cod held in the tongs, and that part was carefully covered with chips in the "after" shot. We also insert it into the fryers in one smooth motion, none of that waving around he was doing (and I wish our fryers were that new!)
Mr King Posted March 22, 2012 Author Posted March 22, 2012 Found a place in town that serves carp finally. It is a hunting and wild life themed tavern. I went there for lunch but they serve it for dinner so I am going to have to go back. Which I look forward to as they have great food.
BP Posted March 22, 2012 Posted March 22, 2012 Fish and chips CAN'T be freshwater! Heresy. . . I think most freshwater fish exist to con rednecks out of insane sums of bass boat and gear money. Not worth eating.
X-Files Posted March 23, 2012 Posted March 23, 2012 (edited) I think most freshwater fish exist to con rednecks out of insane sums of bass boat and gear money. Not worth eating. Watchoo talkin' about, Willis? Trout. Catfish. Light pole w/ small tackle box. Bait to suit. Cooler of beer, pocketful of cigars. Thread drift : what to drink with fish & chips? Edited March 23, 2012 by X-Files
Mike Steele Posted March 23, 2012 Posted March 23, 2012 I think most freshwater fish exist to con rednecks out of insane sums of bass boat and gear money. Not worth eating. Watchoo talkin' about, Willis? Trout. Catfish. Light pole w/ small tackle box. Bait to suit. Cooler of beer, pocketful of cigars. Thread drift : what to drink with fish & chips? Trout fishing is one of the joys of life, Even without fly's. A good lager in answer to your other question.
BP Posted March 23, 2012 Posted March 23, 2012 I think most freshwater fish exist to con rednecks out of insane sums of bass boat and gear money. Not worth eating. Watchoo talkin' about, Willis? Trout. Catfish. Light pole w/ small tackle box. Bait to suit. Cooler of beer, pocketful of cigars. Thread drift : what to drink with fish & chips? Trout fishing? Isn't that where the fish use all kinds of fake flies to lure the wallets out of pasty white guys who think they are living in a "A River runs Through It" for the weekend? Catfishing? Is that even fishing?!? Beer.
Harold Jones Posted March 23, 2012 Posted March 23, 2012 I think most freshwater fish exist to con rednecks out of insane sums of bass boat and gear money. Not worth eating. Watchoo talkin' about, Willis? Trout. Catfish. Light pole w/ small tackle box. Bait to suit. Cooler of beer, pocketful of cigars. Thread drift : what to drink with fish & chips? Trout fishing? Isn't that where the fish use all kinds of fake flies to lure the wallets out of pasty white guys who think they are living in a "A River runs Through It" for the weekend? Catfishing? Is that even fishing?!? Beer. Nothing expensive about a night crawler on a number 10 hook. Catfishing is the best, sitting on the bank of the river with a tire on the fire sipping PBR and dipping sponge covered trebble hooks into a can full of aged chicken blood, ground carp and corn meal while donating your blood to raise the next generation of Midwestern prairie mosquitoes.
swerve Posted March 24, 2012 Posted March 24, 2012 Had some damn good fish & chips a couple of weeks ago at Swanage, down on the south coast. Fresh fish, cooked just enough, light & crispy batter, excellent fat chips. I had dogfish, sold under one of the many euphemisms used for it. Delicious! Mrs S tried it, & loved it. For those not of here, dogfish is a very small shark (actually a few related species), formerly common but reduced by overfishing, so nowadays not seen in fish & chip shops as often as I'd like. Much better than in my local chip shop.
Mike Steele Posted March 24, 2012 Posted March 24, 2012 I think most freshwater fish exist to con rednecks out of insane sums of bass boat and gear money. Not worth eating. Watchoo talkin' about, Willis? Trout. Catfish. Light pole w/ small tackle box. Bait to suit. Cooler of beer, pocketful of cigars. Thread drift : what to drink with fish & chips? Trout fishing? Isn't that where the fish use all kinds of fake flies to lure the wallets out of pasty white guys who think they are living in a "A River runs Through It" for the weekend? Catfishing? Is that even fishing?!? Beer. You can use a couple of split shot and a small hook with a bit of worm(and increase your success rate alot) Of course there are streams that are fly only.
Mr King Posted March 24, 2012 Author Posted March 24, 2012 Catfishing? Is that even fishing?!? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOjA8Puh1BM
DKTanker Posted March 24, 2012 Posted March 24, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOjA8Puh1BMI'll be impressed when they reach in and pull out an alligator gar. Seriously, yeah, you'll not be seeing me sticking my hand under a river bank.
Max H Posted March 24, 2012 Posted March 24, 2012 Had some damn good fish & chips a couple of weeks ago at Swanage, down on the south coast. Fresh fish, cooked just enough, light & crispy batter, excellent fat chips. Might I ask where? This sounds like a good excuse for a trip to the coast
DB Posted April 11, 2012 Posted April 11, 2012 A light beer with fish and chips, although a dry white works also. If you're going to make your own, beer batter can be excellent. A bit of "fizz" lightens the batter.
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