Seafood Mixture Tonight .

[marsh man]

Bought a few bits of seafoods on Sunday so I thought I would do them tonight , I had one of those Thermidor king prawn gratin left from the other night so that got used , tried some deep fried Monk Fish pieces , a carton of Breaded Calamari and some stir and fry lightly done in oil, and with a spoonful of Tartar sauce on the side . verdict , the gratin was nice , Calamari like strips of rubber , Monk fish was done alright but over rated and the stir fry was alright , the Tartar sauce finished it off

[TIGHTCHOKE]

Glad that you are experimenting. Well done.   

[Weihrauch17]

Squid is superb when cooked by a really good Chinese, one of my favourites.

[ditchman]

Very mediteranean....i will have to up my game 

[marsh man]

11 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

Glad that you are experimenting. Well done.   

I stuck some flour on the fish pieces and put them in the deep fryer when it got to the maximum heat , they were ok but didn't have a lot of taste , the Calamari were like eating strips of rubber , I done them alright and even added a couple of minutes on the stated time , all done in around 30 minutes 

 

1 minute ago, ditchman said:

Very mediteranean....i will have to up my game 

One of those rare times where the look is better than the taste , I have got some Jerk chicken for tomorrow , it wont look as nice but I recon it will taste better , we will see . MM

[7daysinaweek]

Looks like a tasty plate.

[marsh man]

31 minutes ago, 7daysinaweek said:

Looks like a tasty plate.

We don't do to bad for old'uns 7diaw , at least we try , as for a tasty plate , you would need better teeth than my new ones to try and eat the plate 😋

[mossy835]

looks very nice MM

[marsh man]

2 minutes ago, mossy835 said:

looks very nice MM

Possibly looked better than it tasted mossy , maybe I was expecting to much and I am nowhere near good enough to get the best out of anything , still , my ole dog ate his bits quicker than I did so someone liked it  

[amateur]

3 hours ago, marsh man said:

...... the Calamari were like eating strips of rubber , I done them alright and even added a couple of minutes on the stated time .......

...... and that's where you went awry.

Calamari has to be cooked either super fast or very slow to be tender.

In-between gives you the rubber.

[marsh man]

1 minute ago, amateur said:

...... and that's where you went awry.

Calamari has to be cooked either super fast or very slow to be tender.

In-between gives you the rubber.

You could well be right amateur , the gratin took the longest so the oven was already hot when I put the Calamari in , I believe it said put them in for 12 minutes and it had about 14 minutes left on the timer , time I put the veg on the plate they were most likely in for 15 minutes , 

You live and learn although I don't think I liked them enough to try again , still you don't know until you try it .   MM

[mel b3]

9 hours ago, marsh man said:

Bought a few bits of seafoods on Sunday so I thought I would do them tonight , I had one of those Thermidor king prawn gratin left from the other night so that got used , tried some deep fried Monk Fish pieces , a carton of Breaded Calamari and some stir and fry lightly done in oil, and with a spoonful of Tartar sauce on the side . verdict , the gratin was nice , Calamari like strips of rubber , Monk fish was done alright but over rated and the stir fry was alright , the Tartar sauce finished it off

Bostin 👍.

[JKD]

Looks nice MM, like something you get in a pub restaurant 😋

I know you didn't really like it,,,, so did you complain to the chef and get a refund 

[TIGHTCHOKE]

4 minutes ago, JKD said:

Looks nice MM, like something you get in a pub restaurant 😋

I know you didn't really like it,,,, so did you complain to the chef and get a refund 

Or a RE THINK?   

[Bobba]

Calamari…… Reminds me of a family joke at the expense of Mrs B.
B-in-law has a place in the south of Corfu. Always wishing to be polite and learn “please, thank you etc” in local language Mrs B also learned “good morning” which she would use on our early morning walks. The greeting is Kalimera………(I suspect you’ve guessed it) The locals looked perplexed as she would say Calamari. After a while we corrected her but the joke remains.

[JohnfromUK]

13 hours ago, marsh man said:

Calamari like strips of rubber

I have to admit to having similar experiences with calamari (squid rings).  It very easily goes rubbery and I have never had any that had much flavour to it either. 

Not something I would choose as it just doesn't seem to work for me (and I have tried on a few occasions at home - and had 'out' occasionally).  Never had any that I found good.

[marsh man]

3 hours ago, JKD said:

Looks nice MM, like something you get in a pub restaurant 😋

I know you didn't really like it,,,, so did you complain to the chef and get a refund 

I just had a long thread about about a 19p type refund so I am not going down that road again  , I did mention it to myself but it just went in one ear and out of the other as I said the calamari was a calamity and neither of us took it seriously 😋

 

3 hours ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

Or a RE THINK?   

After having a post mortem ( no I ain't dead) it wasn't nice enough to re try to get it right , you might had liked it but it wasn't for me , still you can't knock me for giving it a go .

[7daysinaweek]

12 hours ago, marsh man said:

We don't do to bad for old'uns 7diaw , at least we try , as for a tasty plate , you would need better teeth than my new ones to try and eat the plate 😋

 👍

[ditchman]

i have used squid rings in place of "O" rings whilst rebuiling a D8 cat transmission.....

its called "field expediancy"

bloody mediterranean foriegn muck💩

Edited 5 hours ago by ditchman

[islandgun]

Looks well tasty MM

[Penelope]

14 hours ago, marsh man said:

like eating strips of rubber , I done them alright and even added a couple of minutes on the stated time

Over cooked by the sounds of it.

[JKD]

1 hour ago, marsh man said:

I just had a long thread about about a 19p type refund so I am not going down that road again  

 

 

Can't say I noticed 🤔😆

[marsh man]

1 hour ago, ditchman said:

i have used squid rings in place of "O" rings whilst rebuiling a D8 cat transmission.....

its called "field expediancy"

bloody mediterranean foriegn muck💩

I know what you mean , when my dog stretched this morning he expanded 4 inches bigger , he's alright now , mind you , he just jumped up into the back of my motor and ended up on the passenger seat.