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mac5155 wrote:Is Swordfish any good?? A restaurant I went to last night just started carrying it and I was so tempted to try it. I've never had it before.
You have to be careful buying swordfish, because there's a yard-long parasites that can get into the fish's flesh. If the fish isn't handled and butchered properly, those puppies can end up on the plate and it usually means 24 hours of being no more than 10 feet from a bathroom. That said, if you have a reliable purveyor the meat can be very flavorful, especially when grilled. As c2i mentions, it has a fairly pork chop-like texture, so I tend to cook it as I would a pork chop.
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Yeah I mean this place is definitely a mid-scale restaurant and I believe it was priced at $23.99 (this is a lot for a dinner where I live) :lol:
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Price point isn't as much of a concern as is the frequency of their fish deliveries and if they do any butchering of the fish in-house or if they get it already portioned as steaks. If it's already portioned you need to know how reliable/competent their purveyor is, too. And far too many restaurants only get fish deliveries twice a week.

My wife once made the mistake of talking about the problems of ordering fish in restaurants one night out at dinner with a bunch of co-workers. She started parroting some of the stuff she had read in Kitchen Confidential and said "Well, it's Monday so I won't be having fish..." Unknowingly, she was sat at a table beside that restaurant's fish purveyor, who let her know in no uncertain terms that she was full of poop.

D'oh.....
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I tend not to eat "fresh" seafood more than about 20 miles away from an ocean.

#picky
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columbia wrote:I tend not to eat "fresh" seafood more than about 20 miles away from an ocean.

#picky
Ever been to Vegas? :pop:

(to be honest... I have no idea how they do it)

P.S. Living in NY there are a couple of dozen great sushi restaurants, but the best sushi I've ever had ANYWHERE was in Chicago. Go figure.
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I assume that (some) good restaurants have very fresh....but others....no.

Keep in mind that stuff like this goes on:
http://www.aboutseafood.com/content/sea ... eling-fish" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Not necessarily related to "fresh", but you have to be suspicious of inland joints.

As an aside, I'd rather have previously frozen wild salmon, than the "fresh" version that is farm raised.
Only one of them has any flavor.
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columbia wrote:I tend not to eat "fresh" seafood more than about 20 miles away from an ocean.

#picky
This is a general rule of thumb I follow. Except for crab legs. Mmmmmm

Fwiw I got the coconut shrimp that night, instead of swordfish
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mac5155 wrote:Yeah I mean this place is definitely a mid-scale restaurant and I believe it was priced at $23.99 (this is a lot for a dinner where I live) :lol:
what place are we talking about?
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i love whole crabs, but i hate crab legs. /csb
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canaan wrote:i love whole crabs, but i hate crab legs. /csb
and you say NAN sucks...
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canaan wrote:
mac5155 wrote:Yeah I mean this place is definitely a mid-scale restaurant and I believe it was priced at $23.99 (this is a lot for a dinner where I live) :lol:
what place are we talking about?
Grille 31 in Mt Pleasant.
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the wicked child wrote:
canaan wrote:i love whole crabs, but i hate crab legs. /csb
and you say NAN sucks...
crab legs are for passive crab enthusiasts. if you dont have the sand to break apart the whole thing and devour, you are a minor leaguer.
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canaan wrote:
the wicked child wrote:
canaan wrote:i love whole crabs, but i hate crab legs. /csb
and you say NAN sucks...
crab legs are for passive crab enthusiasts. if you dont have the sand to break apart the whole thing and devour, you are a minor leaguer.
when i think of a whole crab I think of blue crab.. and i don't care for them.
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columbia wrote:I tend not to eat "fresh" seafood more than about 20 miles away from an ocean.

#picky
I think nowadays you can reliably get properly fresh seafood up to perhaps 200 miles away from where the fish was caught. I mean, look at the menu for Le Bernardin in Manhattan. They currently have geoduck as a dinner offering, and those things are native to the PacNW. (not known if there's a farmed product available on the east coast)

Then again, dinner at Le Bernardin has a $120 prix fixe.................
canaan wrote:crab legs are for passive crab enthusiasts. if you dont have the sand to break apart the whole thing and devour, you are a minor leaguer.
Crab coral, mmmmmmmmm.............
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I don't eat ocean arachnids crustaceans.
Never.
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columbia wrote:I don't eat ocean arachnids crustaceans.
Never.
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Don't be so crabby about it. :pop:
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lobster bisque is one of my favorite things
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mac5155 wrote:
canaan wrote:
the wicked child wrote:
canaan wrote:i love whole crabs, but i hate crab legs. /csb
and you say NAN sucks...
crab legs are for passive crab enthusiasts. if you dont have the sand to break apart the whole thing and devour, you are a minor leaguer.
when i think of a whole crab I think of blue crab.. and i don't care for them.
Same.
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crabs are the best. snow crabs... blue crabs... i bet those freaky 12" long japanese spider crabs are delicious, too.
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I'm all about the Dungeness.
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King crab. Or as my buddy calls them, crab hotdogs
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Ruhlman's Turkey Gravy Recipe For Thanksgiving
http://ruhlman.com/2011/11/turkey-gravy-recipe/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Mom's coming to L.A. for Thanksgiving. First time she was out here was for my wedding four years ago, but that wasn't much of a vacation. This will be proper holiday, tho, with sightseeing and shenanigans.

Making Thanksgiving dinner for her and Mrs. Tif. Quail (instead of turkey), roasted leg of lamb, cauliflower gratin, green bean casserole (my take), and pumpkin cheesecake.

Gonna be a good day, 'tater.
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putting the turkey in the brine tonight and deep frying that gobbler tomorrow.