If I only lived near the ocean again!

[SuperDuty]

Probably my favorite meal on the planet right here. Oysters on the half and ice cold beer is a pair that can't be beat. My father-in-law loves them too and we often buy a big batch for people to splurge on when we have pool parties. The wifey tried one and said never again lol. 

She loves crab legs tho and I do too. I made us both a big batch of crab legs for her special dinner last night. They say they're an aphrodisiac and it must be true. Lol

 

I love seafood.  Living in the central part of the country kinda sucks since I can't run out and get it super fresh anymore. I use to love diving for lobster and scallops.  Miss those days!

 

[A-Jay]

Me Too.

A-Jay 

[MN Fisher]

The one thing I miss about living in MA/RI - fresh seafood.

[greentrout]

 

live on the gulf coast ...

 

wonderful seafood year round ... great restaurants .... great seafood markets ... great saltwater fishing ... 

 

good fishing ...

 

[SuperDuty]

4 hours ago, greentrout said:

 

live on the gulf coast ...

 

wonderful seafood year round ... great restaurants .... great seafood markets ... great saltwater fishing ... 

 

good fishing ...

 

I was stationed in Pensacola when I was in the Navy. Also lived on Marathon Key in Florida, and in Ocala Florida too. Spent a lot of time in the gulf's waters. Swam with Manatees once when they came up into Homosassa Springs. That was a cool experience. Use to do most of my scalloping out of Crystal River Fl.  Lobster in the Keys of course. My mom moved to Florida when I was 11 so I spent every summer down visiting her. Great times!

[greentrout]

4 hours ago, SuperDuty said:

I was stationed in Pensacola when I was in the Navy. Also lived on Marathon Key in Florida, and in Ocala Florida too. Spent a lot of time in the gulf's waters. Swam with Manatees once when they came up into Homosassa Springs. That was a cool experience. Use to do most of my scalloping out of Crystal River Fl.  Lobster in the Keys of course. My mom moved to Florida when I was 11 so I spent every summer down visiting her. Great times!

here ... navy seabees ... big base ... and well liked ...

 

primarily gulfport/biloxi mississippi ... a long history with different flags from time to time ... we have places here from down and dirty establishments to white glove for restaurants  ... most are great ...

 

pensacola is strong ... the florida panhandle is beautiful ... used to be called the redneck riviera ... no longer ... million dollar homes and up being built there now ... 

 

seafood is plentiful on the gulf coast from texas to florida ... here can fish with waders for redfish and speckled trout ...

 

i've lived all over the country ... liked em all ... but prefer being near the ocean ... 

 

good fishing ...

[SuperDuty]

1 hour ago, greentrout said:

here ... navy seabees ... big base ... and well liked ...

 

primarily gulfport/biloxi mississippi ... a long history with different flags from time to time ... we have places here from down and dirty establishments to white glove for restaurants  ... most are great ...

 

pensacola is strong ... the florida panhandle is beautiful ... used to be called the redneck riviera ... no longer ... million dollar homes and up being built there now ... 

 

seafood is plentiful on the gulf coast from texas to florida ... here can fish with waders for redfish and speckled trout ...

 

i've lived all over the country ... liked em all ... but prefer being near the ocean ... 

 

good fishing ...

Pensacola was pretty cool. When else will a young man be able to live in an apartment, yards from the ocean rent free, get a decent paycheck, while having all expenses paid for. It was nothing more than a a vacation. 

My oldest son folowed my steps and then paved his own way. He enlisted in the Navy, went in for naval intelligence, then went special warfare ST #. He's got crazy stories that'll blow any mind away. One of the craziest to me is a mission he went on that left him stranded floating off the shore of a particular country. He said a massive submarine surfaced yards away to pick his team up. He said it was so quite and all of a sudden this boat just surfaced next to them. Just insane!

Anyways, he left the navy and went to work for a top secret government agency making way more money than I ever made at his age. Now, he's 27 with a resume that far exceeds most men of any age. He gets to write his own book from here on out. He's quite the stud if I do say so myself. 

[N Florida Mike]

I live 15 miles from the ocean. We have gotten different kinds of seafood out of it( mostly fish, shrimp and crabs) all my life. We have done oysters a little, but the laws around here about them are somewhat confusing, esp. about where you can harvest, when , etc.

 It’s a very productive area, you could live on it if you had too.

Ive done everything from offshore to inshore fishing. I taught my middle son, and he knows it probably better than me now. We primarily fish with live and dead bait in salt water, because our goal is a seafood dinner, along with the fun and fellowship that leads up to it. The whole experience is enjoyable to us, from the planning of the trip all the way to the dinner plate.

[TnRiver46]

I ate a single raw oyster once at age 12-13 or so and nearly died. Puked for about 4 days straight. Never again, I don’t even like to see them. Deep fried I can eat 5 or 6 

[SuperDuty]

On 2/21/2020 at 7:08 PM, TnRiver46 said:

I ate a single raw oyster once at age 12-13 or so and nearly died. Puked for about 4 days straight. Never again, I don’t even like to see them. Deep fried I can eat 5 or 6 

Have never had that happen to me from oysters and I've eaten a few thousand probably, but have from fried clams. One of the worst sickness of my life!

[TnRiver46]

20 minutes ago, SuperDuty said:

Have never had that happen to me from oysters and I've eaten a few thousand probably, but have from fried clams. One of the worst sickness of my life!

The human brain is a powerful thing. It will remember to reject certain foods 

[slonezp]

Fresh seafood is relative. While I love mahi mahi and swordfish and crawfish, I also love walleye, crappie , and bluegill. Deep fried crappie is melt in your mouth delicious and bacon wrapped walleye scallops are to die for.

[Oregon Native]

Learned many years ago while living on the Oregon coast that if you can smell the seafood cooking and it's kind of an off smell...don't eat it.  Went to a restaurant on the coast...told my buddy...hope that's not your order....why he says...well it's got an off smell.... he says what ever...smells good to me.

Three hours later he was chumming for us...(Clams)

Miss those Dungeness (sp)

[whitwolf]

Stump sound singles, roasted, grits, fried cornbread, and tea. 

[N Florida Mike]

On 2/21/2020 at 7:08 PM, TnRiver46 said:

I ate a single raw oyster once at age 12-13 or so and nearly died. Puked for about 4 days straight. Never again, I don’t even like to see them. Deep fried I can eat 5 or 6 

I’ve never liked raw ones either. I don’t like any seafood uncooked ( I call that bait around here) I can eat a lot of fried oysters with fairly heavy batter. The less they are battered the less I like them.

Never done any scalloping, but my son has. We used to eat at the closest seafood restaurant to give us a break on cooking. Their scallops were often HORRIBLE. We would complain and they would just say “ sorry” and not even take it off our check. Probably was stingray. We finally quit going there.

[Catt]

I like my oysters like I like my sushi...deep fried! ?

[NYWayfarer]

58 minutes ago, Catt said:

I like my oysters like I like my sushi...deep fried! ?

Same here. Fire was a great invention. It’s a shame to waste it and eat your food raw.

 

I miss the fresh seafood I used to have when I lived downstate. 

[DanielG]

I live in Maine.. a few years ago we traveled the country and when I was in Oregon we decided to have some west coast seafood. I ordered my favorite, the fisherman's platter. It consisted of muscles, prawn, and salmon. I'd never heard of such a thing. I ate the prawn. It was a huge fried shrimp. We don't have them here. A platter here is Maine Clams, Haddock, sea scallops, and shrimp. All fried of course.

 

Also, I noticed the price of Maine lobster to be triple the price almost everywhere else. And it's already expensive here. I found out that people in other parts of the country think we have lobster like people elsewhere eat chicken. Actually we don't. It's usually for tourists. Most Maine people might spring for some once a year in the summer.

 

Another interesting factoid: The gulf stream is warming up. They're selling their lobster boats left and right here. The lobsters are moving north. Biologists tell us that  by 2050 there will be no lobster industry here and it will be greatly diminished before then. Sigh..... Heck, it's on our license plate. Maine and Lobster are almost like soup and sandwich. Gonna be funny when it's not. Right now the other issue is that lobster were part of the Chinese tariff thing. They purchase 60% of our catch. The amount shipped out went from 300,000 lbs. to 30,000 lbs in one yr. China went north a bit to Canada for them. Since the tariff thing was lifted a bit, the worst happened. They stayed with Canada.

 

The lobster industry in Maine isn't healthy right now from the coastal trappers I talk to.

 

That's my fish story....

[TnRiver46]

29 minutes ago, DanielG said:

I live in Maine.. a few years ago we traveled the country and when I was in Oregon we decided to have some west coast seafood. I ordered my favorite, the fisherman's platter. It consisted of muscles, prawn, and salmon. I'd never heard of such a thing. I ate the prawn. It was a huge fried shrimp. We don't have them here. A platter here is Maine Clams, Haddock, sea scallops, and shrimp. All fried of course.

 

Also, I noticed the price of Maine lobster to be triple the price almost everywhere else. And it's already expensive here. I found out that people in other parts of the country think we have lobster like people elsewhere eat chicken. Actually we don't. It's usually for tourists. Most Maine people might spring for some once a year in the summer.

 

Another interesting factoid: The gulf stream is warming up. They're selling their lobster boats left and right here. The lobsters are moving north. Biologists tell us that  by 2050 there will be no lobster industry here and it will be greatly diminished before then. Sigh..... Heck, it's on our license plate. Maine and Lobster are almost like soup and sandwich. Gonna be funny when it's not. Right now the other issue is that lobster were part of the Chinese tariff thing. They purchase 60% of our catch. The amount shipped out went from 300,000 lbs. to 30,000 lbs in one yr. China went north a bit to Canada for them. Since the tariff thing was lifted a bit, the worst happened. They stayed with Canada.

 

The lobster industry in Maine isn't healthy right now from the coastal trappers I talk to.

 

That's my fish story....

I feel as though a few biologists said life as we know it would be over due to a lack of fresh water by 2020 as well..... 

[DanielG]

9 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

I feel as though a few biologists said life as we know it would be over due to a lack of fresh water by 2020 as well..... 

Probably the same few biologists that are climate deniers.

 

Actually when I was teaching science, Years back when the oil issues were in full swing and it was a new thing, I was talking with the kids about how clean, fresh, palatable water was going to be a big issue some day. And sure enough, throughout the world it is a huge issue now. It's regional but it's the cause of most of the worlds premature deaths each year.

The World Health Organization estimates that 3.575 million people die from water-related diseases a year.

And, 1.6 million of those are children.

 

So, it would seem that those few scientists were right. I had my septic system replaced this year after a 50 year run with the old one. That's a long time. I live at a lake. The hoops I had to jump through were quite formidable to get it replaced properly. A big headache but without it we'd be in more trouble than we are now.

[TnRiver46]

I predict that humans will continue to make faulty predictions as well as faulty infrastructure until the bitter end. And hopefully I will eat as few ray oysters as I can between now and then 

[Way2slow]

Why ruin a perfectly good food by cooking it.

I want my oysters right off the bottom or fresh off the boat. No sauces to cover up the flavor, pop em loose, open em up and eat em.  Maybe a few saltine crackers with them, but nothing else.  As for the beer with them, you can pour that stuff back in the horse.

For a good steak, I'm about the same way, just warm it up and throw a little salt and pepper on it.  I like to have a very hot bed of coals, in the grill, throw it on for about a minute on each side, just to get a little sear on it.  A lot of times I'm cutting off pieces of raw to munch on while cooking.

Of course these days, the hardest part about having a good streak, is finding one.  That's hard to do these day.   Not long ago, I ordered some that were $27 a pound, and could have gone to the Piggy Wiggly and gotten crap I ended up with for $7 a pound.  Have never had the nerve to order any of those $50- $75 dollar a pound ones.  That's eating a little too high on the hog for me.

[TnRiver46]

2 hours ago, Way2slow said:

Why ruin a perfectly good food by cooking it.

I want my oysters right off the bottom or fresh off the boat. No sauces to cover up the flavor, pop em loose, open em up and eat em.  Maybe a few saltine crackers with them, but nothing else.  As for the beer with them, you can pour that stuff back in the horse.

For a good steak, I'm about the same way, just warm it up and throw a little salt and pepper on it.  I like to have a very hot bed of coals, in the grill, throw it on for about a minute on each side, just to get a little sear on it.  A lot of times I'm cutting off pieces of raw to munch on while cooking.

Of course these days, the hardest part about having a good streak, is finding one.  That's hard to do these day.   Not long ago, I ordered some that were $27 a pound, and could have gone to the Piggy Wiggly and gotten crap I ended up with for $7 a pound.  Have never had the nerve to order any of those $50- $75 dollar a pound ones.  That's eating a little too high on the hog for me.

I cook them so I don’t have to vomit over and over, that’s why 

[kayaking_kev]

I lived on Tybee Island in Georgia for a year, right on the beach and sadly I never really ate any of the seafood, mostly because my wife can't stand it. The only thing I did eat while there was some of a shark that a guy caught from the beach, it wasn't bad, but wasn't great either. I don't know about oysters, but I would at least try it once.

[Boomstick]

I like pretty much all seafood to be honest, shellfish, filleted fish, king crab, blue crab, clams, oysters, cod, salmon, catfish, tuna, swordfish etc.

 

I live in Western, MA where we don't have the same access to fresh seafood as the eastern part of the state, but we can still get it fresh and never frozen it's just a little more expensive.

 

When I was a kid, I had a fairly mild allergy to seafood. I wouldn't die or stop breathing, I'd just feel sick 30-60 minutes after eating it, throw up and then feel fine. I could eventually keep down anything besides lobster, just stop eating when I start feeling slightly funny and I'd be fine, and eventually that went away and the last couple of times I ate a lobster tail, I kept that down too.