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Post by curiouspea on May 10, 2006 18:20:30 GMT
I like seafood, but unfortunately Saara has allergies to prawn/shellfish-related stuff, so that's a bit limiting. She's okay with normal fish though You've got me tempted to try scallops - and I just happened to see a nearby Seafood restaurant last Saturday. We might pop in there next week Mr CuriousPea is seriously allergic to crustacaea (sp?) - but he can eat scallops. If anyone is allergic ....you probably ought to check that the restaurant has not used a fish stock which will have inevitably had a look at a prawn or similar....any restaurant sauce may be not the thing for her! Scallops are so good and so easy to cook - from dead simple....to less so. You might do better to buy some from M&S or your fishmonger spend the money you are saving by eating at home on some fabulous wine. Being an ex cook and bottle washer and a keen appreciator of the good things in life, I can honestly say that I prefer to eat scallops at home.
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Post by Bobby on May 10, 2006 18:38:06 GMT
I like seafood, but unfortunately Saara has allergies to prawn/shellfish-related stuff, so that's a bit limiting. She's okay with normal fish though You've got me tempted to try scallops - and I just happened to see a nearby Seafood restaurant last Saturday. We might pop in there next week Mr CuriousPea is seriously allergic to crustacaea (sp?) - but he can eat scallops. If anyone is allergic ....you probably ought to check that the restaurant has not used a fish stock which will have inevitably had a look at a prawn or similar....any restaurant sauce may be not the thing for her! Scallops are so good and so easy to cook - from dead simple....to less so. You might do better to buy some from M&S or your fishmonger spend the money you are saving by eating at home on some fabulous wine. Being an ex cook and bottle washer and a keen appreciator of the good things in life, I can honestly say that I prefer to eat scallops at home. cp is right. Scallops are terribly expensive and really, really easy to cook so the extra money you would spend in a restaurant would be better spent preferably at your fishmongers. Oh, and a decent bottle of wine from the offy. You can tell how fresh they are by the bright pinky orange and off white flesh, something that can easily be masked in a restaurant. Strange really. As an island race I've always been suprised about how little fish we actually eat.
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Post by jilona on May 10, 2006 18:44:54 GMT
Thanks for the scallop recipes and all the fish recipes. You see, I've never been a fish cook. However, I'm finding that I quite like seafood when prepared nicely - still won't do lobster because I can't handle the thought of the poor thing being boiled alive. Hi IO, One of my favourites is green thai curry with tiger prawns. Yum yum yum yum yum. And, so easy to do at home.
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Post by curiouspea on May 10, 2006 18:48:36 GMT
M&S scallops are pretty good.
I live where some of them come from. And when I have once or twice bought them in London branches of Marks and Spencer, they have been good.
I know that I HATE to pay for the mark up on local restaurants locally - I know what they pay - and I pay even less... They are not difficult to cook - less is more - they are nice raw too!
Far better to spend money on a meal out on a dish you would be hard pressed to cook at home...
well that's what we do, and only a suggestion, not a decree as to what you should find funny or anything!
(I apply this to fillet steak to - easy to cook - and spend the extra £££s on some nice wine and saving on the babysitter/taxi...)
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2006 18:59:47 GMT
So you don't do mussels either, IO? shame, I love 'em.
I draw the line at live oysters and agree with - I think - Woody Allen, who said he prefers his food dead, not ailing or terminally ill. I would add that I don't want anything going down my throat in the prime of life, kicking and screaming "do not go gently into that good night." ;D
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