What's Cookin? show down in rat town edition

went to a party once in maryland that had bushel baskets of steamed crab to eat. very good tasting but so much work to get to a little bit of crab meat. now in fredrick maryland we used to go to a place that had good clams.

 

To each his own

Some people love oysters

I can’t eat one

 

A friend many years ago took me out on Cape Cod to a clam shack and said we were going to have fried clams and I thought yuck

That thought went away quickly

Same thing happened with a different friend who suggested we order steamed clams

My mother was Irish I grew up on boiled potatoes

If anyone is ever in Chicago area I highly recommend Bob Chinn’s Crab House

https://www.bobchinns.com/

Especially the blue crab claws with garlic

 

I'm with you on that!

 

I love most seafood but, there are some I just won't eat. Raw clams, oysters and crab. I'm spoiled in that, for years, I worked for a guy who wouldn't eat any seafood that had been frozen. We had some form of seafood almost every day so, we ate what we caught same day. Sometimes to the extreme! For instance, once we ate lobster for breakfast lunch and dinner for 6 straight days (think Bubba and the shrimp)

 

I agree - I should have included the words "self-proclaimed" crab capital. It's like Philly where everybody sells Philly Cheese Steak Sandwiches. Everybody in Baltimore sells some variation of crab this and crab that with lots of crab cake assortments. I thought their crab cakes were pretty good but I haven't been to The Salty Dawg to try theirs.

 

Are we talking the same Salty Dawg Saloon? The one I was at was on Homer Spit Alaska and they don’t bother with food.

 

Not even Eskimo Pies?

 

my dad has always made oyster stew on his birthday. it's very good and very simple. oysters, butter, milk and salt and pepper.

 

I live the broth

Then I flip the oysters into someone else’s bowl

 

i like them in the stew but would never eat one on the half shell. probably like eating snot and a booger.

 

I told my wife I thought fried okra tasted like fried boogers

So she thought she had me so she asked how I knew what boogers tasted like

I reminded her at one time I was a kid

 

Wife brought home about 25 wings from her work. Gonna be tossing them back along with some beers.

 

Seared scallops wrapped in bacon sautéed in onion butter, grilled asparagus and scalloped potatoes. NY cheese cake thick like cement. Go Steelers!

 

Eat N Park potatoes soup and club sandwiches.
It is 24 degrees in western Pa this morning.

 

I love fried or stewed or freshly shucked!

 

Ok are the scallops seared or sautéed they aren’t the same

Do you start with raw bacon on the scallops or do you partially cook it first

I just bought a bag of scallops

 

This is what makes the world go round

It would be extremely boring if we were all the same

I can eat cannibal sandwiches other people not so much

 

Pan seared scallops served over pasta with a creamy garlic sauce

 

I like the smoked ones!

 

That's the face I make if I even THINK about trying to choke down a raw one! Now, raw scallops? I'm there!

 

I don't eat a lot of sushi but I enjoy going with friends who do and I do enjoy salmon and tuna