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Favorite Seafood?

Posted by GiftShopping • 2/27/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: fish, protein, seafood, seafood recipes, shellfish

What's your favorite seafood?

Here's some choices:

Salmon
Tuna
Halibut
Black Cod
White Cod
Lobster
Crab
Clams
Prawns
Mussels
Oysters
Scallops
etc...

Got any delicious seafood recipe to share?

User Comments

2/27/09

gtally

Sushi, so I can have all of the above!

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1. 2/28/09
  
  melindaville
  
  Me too!--I LOVE sushi! In fact, I am going out to sushi tonight! And looking forward to it.
2/27/09

sunnyberra

Ooo, have to be clam strips

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2/27/09

Stillthinking

I would also vote for sushi!

I would recommend trying to make maki at home using sashimi grade fish and whatever ingredients you can come up with. It's fun and so delicious! Just make sure to get the freshest sashimi (it must be called sashimi from a place with a good rep for freshness) you can find. I make mine with chili sauce, Japanese mayo, tuna sashimi, sushi rice, and nori.

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2/27/09

HalfCrazy

Shrimp, definitely shrimp! But I stopped eating it this year as I saw big live ones and thought they were gross lol.

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2/27/09

insomia

lobster!..what the diffrent shrimp and prawn?

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1. 3/01/09
  
  OneMuslim
  
  shrimp is small, prawn is bigger. and I don't think shrimp have claws.
2/27/09

timethief

I live on a small island where I have an abundant supply of fresh fish
- shrimp, prawns, halibut, pacific salmon, ling cod.
Although we do have all the bivalves I don't choose to eat filter feeders.

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2/27/09

busylizzy

SHRIMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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2/27/09

HeadStones

Crab. but there is a lot of other good once.

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2/28/09

legbamel

Scallops. And lobster. And prawns.

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2/28/09

GiftShopping

Shellfish seems to be the pick for seafood favorites here. Sashimi is a type of tuna. My mom used to serve that quite often, though I have never aquired the taste for it. My family loves it. I love abalone which you don't see much often in the market these days. My favorites are salmon, crab, lobster, scallops, abalone and oysters. I also like fresh water fish like trout.

Growing up, my mom and my 3 uncles would go skin diving for abalone, rock oysters, herring eggs including clam digging in the north pacific ocean. My dad and I would go fishing for stripe bass and perch. It would take a whole day of doing that and it was fun. My dad is great fisherman. He can spot the best places which are usually seems like miles of walking in the sand lugging equipment and lunch. We patiently waited two days for the big family seafood feast at home. We ate, swap stories about our day trip and play cards. Day one, we ate the fresh fish, clams and oysters. Day two, we ate more fish, abalone and herring eggs.

The fish was baked in the oven with miso inside. My mom is great at cooking fish because she cooks it without smelling the house up. It's amazing. She said she uses lots of lemon. Some ways she cooks it tempura style which is yummy.

Herring eggs are spawned on kelp found on rocks under the ocean. They cut them up in small strips, cleaned very well and soaking in fresh water. They prepared them in a 5 lb. bucket of soy sauce, bonito fish flakes and other ingredients overnight, like pickling. It was served like a condiment as to be placed on top of hot steamed small grain white rice. The texture is crunchy, spongy and flavorful. Herring eggs are often used on sushi which are small orange colored balls which are usually artificially colored.

The abalone was prepared by pounding the heck out of it completely flat. Then it is boiled and cut up into thin strips, and served with miso (soybean paste). This dish is served cold and eaten as an appetizer and melts in your mouth and is meaty. If you like abalone, you might enjoy octopus. Octopus is also chewy like squid.

They would have dozens of rock oysters were soaking in a 5 lb. bucket of water and then placed on the BBQ. The oyster shell open ups from heat, then cut and release the oyster. Add lemon, soysauce, sometimes tabasco and slurp them down.

Since we moved to the desert region, we haven't ate much seafood like we used to.

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1. 3/01/09
  
  Stillthinking
  
  Actually, tuna is a type of sashimi. Sashimi is a Japanese dish of very thinly sliced raw fish. Sashimi can be any number of different kinds of fish. It can be tuna, salmon, halibut, etc.
2/28/09

SweetViolet

Abalone (called perlemoen here).

Second fave is scallops

Third would be stone crab

Then Maine lobster, and after that shrimp/prawns.

I am not a big fan of finny fish, mussels or clams...and am horrified at the thought of eating octopus or squid...but I do enjoy the items above.

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2/28/09

Thundercatt99

King crab is the bomb! Wild salmon, halibut, shrimp ...

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2/28/09

ushakrishnan

Crabs- cooked in a spicy gravy! My mother makes a killer dish! But I'd settle for just about any seafood.

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2/28/09

moreorlesley

I LOVE seafood!!

#1 Lobster
#2 Clams (Steamed)
#3 Whole belly fried clams
shrimp, scallops, salmon..

Now I'm hungry. lol

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1. 2/28/09
  
  GiftShopping
  
  Yeah, I hear ya. When I created this discussion, I started to get hungry and or every time I read it. lol
2/28/09

NatetheGrate

Lobster, lobster, lobster, even though it's not kosher.

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2/28/09

danj88x

shrimp, crab and lobtser, tough choice between my favorites

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2/28/09

annz

I'm almost vegetarian, but I just cannot give up seafood. My favorites are scallops, salmon, crab. And any sushi. This whole discussion is making me hungry.

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2/28/09

roentarre

I love oysters, mussels and scallops.

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2/28/09

drjay1966

Sushi...

Mmmmmm...damn, now I want some...

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3/01/09

Lydia

Salmon, no doubt. Here in the Pacific Northwest we are fortunate to have the best. Some sea lions entered the Columbia River a few seasons ago and have stuck around eating salmon in spite of actions to deter/frighten them. Officials were given permission last week to begin trapping and killing them beginning this weekend. The word from nature groups is that the sea lions (which are not native to the river, I must add to keep this balanced) are responsible for only 7% of the salmon loss. The rest is due to overfishing and dams. Big issue here.

I don't mind sharing salmon with some sea lions. This is a very touchy issue here, especially when you can see the points made on all sides.

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3/01/09

Bharatheeyam

You looks very slim but your list is as big as sea.

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3/01/09

Perky

I love buttered prawns. It's a must have whenever I dine at a seafood restaurant.

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3/01/09

dinsquared

Lobster. Lobster. Lobster.

But I'll take any of it, really.

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3/01/09

lovesome1

anykind!!! but i miss eating lobster as a kid in maine=( this is reallllly making me hungry

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3/01/09

rmaxwell142

I love shrimp and lobster. I haven't tried any other seafoods yet! Not much of a fish person either.

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3/01/09

xmarks

Lobster in the rough #1 but I love clam chowder too.

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