Who is going to try it?

I once caught a good sized pike and my Mom made quenelle, a classic French dish with pike meat. It was not good, at all. Escoffier be damned. Heresy to gourmands but not all things are meant to be eaten, and be I like offal, there’s worse like puke and most likely Caprs…but I am intrigued by the roe, never met any I did not like. In the UK we would fry cod’s roe which looked just like the stuff there. Granular as opposed to bigger ‘beads’ re Salmon or caviar.

Dave
 
Dave Boyle said:
I once caught a good sized pike and my Mom made quenelle, a classic French dish with pike meat. It was not good, at all. Escoffier be damned. Heresy to gourmands but not all things are meant to be eaten, and be I like offal, there’s worse like puke and most likely Caprs…but I am intrigued by the roe, never met any I did not like. In the UK we would fry cod’s roe which looked just like the stuff there. Granular as opposed to bigger ‘beads’ re Salmon or caviar.

Dave
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Pike is good eats. Most of the First Nation guides in Canada prefer pike to walleye.
You did something wrong, like got the notorious pike slime all over the meat.
 
When I first discovered fly fishing for capr in the early 70's. it was at a crystal clear, cold MT oxbow while fishing for Browns. One day I took one home, managed to somewhat butcher-off a couple fillets & made beer batter fish. I cooked them outside on our Elk camp stove. I had tried a few bites & thought ". . . this isn't too bad" when Dad came home. Dad grew-up in Missouri had fished for & noodled all kinds of fish, including capr. He picked up a piece, dipped it in tartar sauce and almost reached his mouth when he asked "What is this?," to which I replied "Carp." "You're crazy," he said and went in the house. And thus ended the experiment . . .

Edit: misspelled crazy (or maybe I really was craxy) & then tried to mispell misspelled.
 
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Billy said:
@Buzzy? 😀

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The video was a really good way to wake up with my first cup of coffee. And no, @Billy - I ain't gonna try Escoffier's recipe for "insufficient" beer braised carp or beer fried carp roe..... not gonna happen.

Back in the days when we lived in Port Orchard, I brought home cod and rockfish and sauteed their roe in butter: delicious!! My eight year old grandson's favorite kind of seafood is ikura, he loves it. Once again, passing on braised carp and sauteed carp roe!

(How did the host of the video not gag when he was prepping the fish?)
 
Depends on the water quality where it was caught. A relatively pollution-free lake? Sure, I'd try a bite just out of curiosity - and half expecting to spit it out. The Columbia River? ... I'll pass on the PCBs and radioisotopes.
 
SilverFly said:
Depends on the water quality where it was caught. A relatively pollution-free lake? Sure, I'd try a bite just out of curiosity - and half expecting to spit it out. The Columbia River? ... I'll pass on the PCBs and radioisotopes.
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Passing on the agricultural drains too........ pesticides, heavy metals, viruses.....
 
Gonna pass on the gutter grouper/sewer salmon...

:)
 
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