okeefe4prez
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Y'all need to stop in Darlington, SC over Labor Day on your way to get seafood. Me and some boys are tent camping for the Southern 500. I haven't tailgate camped bince the Iowa-Penn State game in 2010.
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Y'all need to stop in Darlington, SC over Labor Day on your way to get seafood. Me and some boys are tent camping for the Southern 500. I haven't tailgate camped bince the Iowa-Penn State game in 2010.
Chickenlounge
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Yeah, we get their postcards. Never been yet, but need to try it out. It's not every Monday though. I thought it was only like 4 Mondays in Iowa City?
MelroseHawkins
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Fryowa
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My thoughts on catfish...ymmv...
I don't eat eat river catfish or farm raised. There are a couple smaller lakes around me that I take them from, river cats (aside form the PCB problems) are really muddy tasting and farm raised fish are super fatty. When you filet one you'll see the whole top half the fillet is yellow (fat). I assume this is because their whole life they don't have to really move or compete for food, they just get a bunch of pellets thrown at them every day. If anyone's bad experiences came from a restaurant, they 99.9% had farm-raised fish.
The second thing to do to make catfish (or any bigger fish) taste great is to bleed it right after landing it. Catch it, cut the gills (they die almost immediately), and straight into a cooler on ice. The fillets will be bright white instead of pink and no strong taste. A lot of people will keep a stringer of catfish tied up in the water all day long and wonder why they taste like ass.
Last thing I do is cut out the lateral line out of the fillets without cutting through the whole thing. Just a V notch on either side and it comes right out.
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Fryowa
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I get 25 days a year PTO, 8 paid holidays, the week between Christmas and New Year's off paid, and we get to pick any day of the pay period our birthdays fall in to take off paid. Here they're big on making people take time off so it's use it or lose it. No buyout or carryover.
I struggle like hell to use it all.
MelroseHawkins
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Some fish I soak in a milk bath before frying up which seems to help quite a bit. Like bass that I've had in the freezer a few months or something.
Fryowa
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Labor Day weekend is a big ass fish fry at my place and smoked ribs for people who don't eat aquatic animals.
There will be some major ladderball and horseshoe competition going on so keep your head on a swivel.
Ree4
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That would be me, ugh can't stand fish or sea bugs
Fryowa
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VandeKamps fish sticks and Red Lobster don't count.
You have to try fresh, wild-caught, non-frozen stuff made by someone who can cook it competently.
EstronHawkKing
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Man, I could eat seafood every other night. Shrimp, lobster, crab meat, grouper & some beers with oysters on the half shell add some lemon juice and cocktail sauce with some crackers.
Ree4
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What's VandeKamps? I have had plenty of fresh fish, still don't like it. Had to go to Red Lobster for the mother in law's bday on Sunday, ugh I couldnt stand it - the smell gave me a headache. Never had fish at Red Lobster though. Went to the Outer Banks in NC for a wedding in May and some of the wedding party who live in the area went to one of the local markets and got some fish, still couldnt do it. I don't mind shrimp now and again, I mowed through some spicy garlic with banana pepper that was really good and some crab and red pepper pizza down there but man, I like the turf meat.VandeKamps fish sticks and Red Lobster don't count.
okeefe4prez
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Sorry to bump this and derail football talk in the days before the most important Iowa football game of this millennium, but I have a Pit Barrel Cooker set for delivery tomorrow and was planning to smoke on Saturday with my TV outside with the game on. Do any of you dudes have one of those?
