Suddenly I want chicken and ribs. Everything looks so good!

Ron

 

Suddenly I want chicken and ribs. Everything looks so good!

Ron

And tacos ... make lots of tacos with them!

 

 

And tacos ... make lots of tacos with them!

My son makes great fish tacos, enjoyed some over the holidays with a green sauce to die for. Been on a tortillas kick lately. Flour or corn but like flour better. Amazing what you can put in them. Had ham & egg with salsa and cheese a few days ago.

Ron

 

Not quite street food but it used to be a way to make a bit of money. Smoked Mullet! Poor folks would catch some large bull mullet cast netting. Split them down the back, heads and scales on but cleaned. Then slow smoke them over an open oak and hickory smudge fire in their back yard til cooked and dried out. Wrap them in newspaper and sell them in front of the only grocery store in town (one of the reasons we call the small local paper the "Mullet Wrapper"). Now that all the po' folks are getting food stamps and other subsidies you don't see them selling smoked mullet much at all and it used to be very common.

 

 

Seriously sharp knife in a skilled hand.

Growing up Long Island if it came out of the water you ate it. Less of course the East River. Frutti De Mare.

Not quite street food but it used to be a way to make a bit of money. Smoked Mullet! Poor folks would catch some large bull mullet cast netting. Split them down the back, heads and scales on but cleaned. Then slow smoke them over an open oak and hickory smudge fire in their back yard til cooked and dried out. Wrap them in newspaper and sell them in front of the only grocery store in town (one of the reasons we call the small local paper the "Mullet Wrapper"). Now that all the po' folks are getting food stamps and other subsidies you don't see them selling smoked mullet much at all and it used to be very common.

Same way fish and chips came in New England. My dad was from New Bedford Mass. Big treat when we visited grandma up there was the fish (cod) and chips. A good fish portion was $0.35 and same for chips.

Over Christmas we try to do an Italian semi 7 fishes Christmas Eve. My son makes excellent fish tacos and my sister an excellent fish stew. I say semi because meat is available for the non seafood types. That would be a mortal sin in Italy.

Ron

 

When I was living in Dekalb Illinois we'd go to the Navy Pier in Chicago to get smoked fish. Lake caught fresh smoked whitefish or lake trout. Always good!

 

When I was living in Dekalb Illinois we'd go to the Navy Pier in Chicago to get smoked fish. Lake caught fresh smoked whitefish or lake trout. Always good!

Smoked fish is great stuff. Since my days for the Atlantic coast are gone my new focus is Lake Erie perch and more loved Lake Erie walleye. We also have the coho salmon runs in the fall. The Great Lakes offer some good fish. I still miss the Atlantic coastal areas but one gets use to what is available. There is a place in Washington State I order smoked salmon from. Been over 30 years ago I attended a seminar in Denver Colorado. I was buying quite a bit from Fluke at the time. Fluke had a hospitality suite at the conference I had a pass for. In their hospitality suites Fluke offers complimentary products from their home state which is Washington State and they had a mountain of smoked salmon from a place named Larry's Smokehouse. Well Larry is long retired but I now order from his daughter Debbie and her husband. That conference got me hooked (literally). Some of the best smoked salmon I ever had and always a hit over holidays. Good bagels, red onion, cream cheese (I like maple walnut cream cheese) and smoked salmon. Really need high quality bagels and oh yeah, capers. To keep the capers at bay I first spread the cream cheese on each bagel half. Then squish the capers in so they can't roll off and escape. A slice of tomato is optional.

Ron

 

Our stepdad was at the Rust Engineering companies' office in Portland back in the 60s for a few years and he loved to fish. There were several fish canneries that would smoke and can your salmon for a cut of the catch. Even better than the salmon was the canned smoked sturgeon so he'd always get a few in trade. New way of fishing out there. 55 gal plastic drums and a landing net. Scoop and dump! We used to have a caviar business here on the Altamaha delta but they stopped us from sturgeon fishing a number of years ago now. I smoke some king mackerel every year to make fish spread. Once smoked and somewhat dried it freezes well also. Mayo, bit of Worcestershire, lime juice, and a bit of cayenne mixed in it is great on a cracker!

 

 

Pork cracklings, pork rind, more good stuff

Ron

 

Dönner kebab in the parking spot of one of the biggest clubs in Germany (can't recall the name). It was the best dönner I've ever had.

 

The degenerate gambler and #1 son will be heading to our annual Vegas trip at the end of the month. A few comp nights at the Palazzo and the rest of the weekend comp at the Cosmopolitan with some resort credits for food.

I love the Grand Lux Cafe breakfast buffet.

Wicked Spoon Buffet is also great for brunch.

 

Vegas was always a great place for a buffet. When living in San Diego it was like $60.00 USD round trip so 4 day weekends in Vegas were common. Then too that was late 70s.

Ron