Reply With QuoteAh yes. Have to admit I tried some at a fishing weigh in once and was not bad. Have also smoked some bonito in my fish smoker and that was good as well - just couldn't get over the fact I was eating bait.
Saw a cooking program over the week-end (Ainslie someoneorother) and i swear he was cooking slimy mackerel on his barbie. Anyone ever cooked up any slimies?
Tony
Ah yes. Have to admit I tried some at a fishing weigh in once and was not bad. Have also smoked some bonito in my fish smoker and that was good as well - just couldn't get over the fact I was eating bait.
Tony seen the same program yes they were slimmie's, I haven't tried them but I have tried yakka's I am not much of a fish eater but they didn't taste too bad. Alot of people in Sydney and so forth buy yakka's and slimmie's at the fish markets per kilo. I can't get over the fact that we use them for bait I think I will stick to fillet o fish meal from macca's.
THAT'S DISGUSTING
this is queensland - home of the summer whiting, the coral trout, snapper, red emperor .....
Yep smoked slimies and yakkas aren't too bad, they even come up well breaded and deep fried.
cheers
joe.
With my mum being Italian, I'm used to being asked, "why use it for bait, just eat the bloody thing!". SOme of the relies in Vic even eat CARP!!!!!!
Up here (NQ), whiting and garfish are only ever used as bait. #Never really hear of people eating them!
Had a mate once who's mum swore by eating sardines (the ones i'm sure we all target for bait). #When we were about 14, headed out fishing to Fitzroy island, and came up with the brilliant (well we thought it was at the time!) idea to catch as many sardines as we could, and sell them to tackle shops. #Came home with about 15kg sardines. #She told us to squeeze the stomach contents out, then de scale them by running your hands against the scales, dust in flour and deep fry. #Eat them as chips!!!!!! #Dunno, never tried it. #Probably would be ok tho! #Have to give it a shot one day
Dan
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I think Ainsley and his cooking show are english arent they?? Small mackeral are the norm up there in the northern hemisphere, not sure if they are the same species of fish but I know for sure that small oily fish like these are very common and popular as food fish and generally considered a delicacy there. Cant say i've had them BBQed but they taste great raw with a bit of soy sauce and wasabi
Dan your story reminds me of the time i was told to do that with river sardines, well got a net full and washed,descaled,deheaded and coated in seasoned flour, then cooked in vhot oil...crisp and tasted pretty good. went down even better with a mug of rum.
cheers baldy
What you are talking about is the Atlantic Mackerel, Scomber scombrus: http://www.fishbase.com/Summary/Spec...sname=scombrus
The Pacific grows a bit bigger, but they seem to be very similar in terms of life-history and ecological niche - probably very closely related but separated into Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
The slimy mackerel is Scomber australasicus:
http://www.fishbase.com/Summary/Spec...=australasicus
i agree with chris.........never hear of cooking bait in my family. >
"why" ???
"whats the time"
Finished work one saturday afternoon a few years back, came back to the contruction camp to find our Italain cook all excited about some fish he had bought down at the Coffs Co op.
BBQ'd WA pilchards for dinner that night (fresh caught).
"But that's bait," says I.
"No No, Dats Beaudifuuul!" says he.
Scaled and thrown straight on the plate.
Gut shrinks up into the head.
Hold head and tail and just suck the fillet of the side, flip over and do the same for the other, toss the frame and into another one.
Pretty nice actually.
Live and learn!
Cheers
Jeff
so how do you eat your prawns if you don't cook themOriginally Posted by snappa
i agree with chris.........never hear of cooking bait in my family. >
# # # # # # # "why" ???
every fish is potentail bait!
exactly right basserman, u use prawns for bait dont ya?, most things from the ocean r good to eat, where we come from there is a way of preparing nearly everything that comes out of the ocean, im not one of these pricks that takes anything they catch, this is Australia, not a third world country, no one should be starving here, so there is no need to keep any undersize fish, but i love seafood, so anything legal i catch i eat it! if u catch squid try using some of the ink mixed with rice in a frypan, just a little though, its very strong, but i tastes lovely, its a traditional dish in Spain(im not from Spain, we're from South America) its called Arroz Negro or "Black Rice" the sicilians use it too, very nice
i like bundy black -its a traditional dish from bundaberg - a town near the sea.
what does squid ink taste like? is it slimy?
chris
i'c seen this squid ink pasta in a very $$$$ sydney spanish restrunt and holy @#%# was that pricy!
i'm like you but carlo i will give anything at least one go
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