Your favorite PNW seafood?

[CountryGent]

Inspired by a couple of active threads here, I thought I'd toss this out, considering we live in a beautiful region filled with a great many ponds, lakes, streams, tributaries, rivers, and the ocean, teaming with much bounty:

• What are some of your favorite species from fresh and salt water sources?
• Have any delightful recipes to share?

Enjoy, friends.

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[osprey]

Hard choice. I would have to say It would be a three way tie between Sockeye, Dungeness crab and spot prawns.

 

[KKG]

Salmon and Clam Chowder(if you can find someone who makes it right)!

Fresh caught Trout that is Pan Fried in Butter over an Open Fire!

 

[Kruel J]

Don't forget the razor clams!

 

[jbett98]

Fresh Springer Salmon.

 

[Pete F]

I love most all of NW seafood, but razor clam chowder is probably my favorite. The Embarcadero in Newport used to have the best, but it has been a while since I stayed there. I used to take a couple of quarts home with me.

 

[osprey]

Don't forget the razor clams!

Damn, I forgot about razors. All right make it a 4 way tie. My Mother makes razor clam fritters fried in bacon grease that are to die for.

 

[bbbass]

Inspired by a couple of active threads here, I thought I'd toss this out, considering we live in a beautiful region filled with a great many ponds, lakes, streams, tributaries, rivers, and the ocean, teaming with much bounty:

• What are some of your favorite species from fresh and salt water sources?
• Have any delightful recipes to share?

Enjoy, friends.

Crab, hands down! Second is the clam chowder made by the Tea Room in Brookings.

For fresh water it would be largemouth and smallmouth bass. Soooo mild!!!

 

[BSG 75]

Halibut cheeks. They taste more like scallops than fish.

 

[JuglansRegia]

Probably pacific halibut, I think the wife like the dungeness, full freezer of both right now. I forgot to mention Newt, my crazy cat digs the crab, its kind of annoying though.

 

[USMC-03]

All of it...

Pacific oysters, salmon, ling cod, razor and steamer clams, crab.

I just like seafood but nobody else in my family does. Consequently I'm required to not eat it at home so there's no lingering odor...

 

[jbett98]

A well made seafood stew with fresh baked sourdough bread has about everything one could want in a meal.

 

[No_Regerts]

Dungeness crab, prawns, lingcod, rockfish, razor clam chowder, walleyes!

 

[WAYNO]

Crab, pink shrimp, and ocean bottom fish. A fourth would be sturgeon.

Although salmon, steelhead and trout have always been a plentiful catch for me, they are too fishy for my taste.

 

[Joe13]

Lobster, shrimp, salmon and clam chowder (though I can't really eat the chowder anymore).

Salmon is what I think of for NW seafood.

 

[Flymph]

I'm a huge fan of salmon candy...
Fillet the salmon or steelhead, cut 3" steaks of the fillets.
Pour about 2 cups worth of soy sauce in a bowl, mix with a cup and a half or so of water, 3/4 bag of brown sugar, add about a table spoon of pepper, a few quartered garlic cloves, a table spoon of lemon juice... pretty much sweet and salty to taste.
Soak salmon at over night turning occasionally.
Smoke anywhere from 160-190 for about 4 hours over alder and apple wood chips. Baste every 45 minutes or so with maple syrup filled with coarse ground pepper.
Enjoy!

I like nehalem bay crab as well, and I'm a total sucker for good clam chowder. Rock bass fish & chips are great too!
I like crappie from fresh water, if you can find them safe to eat.

 

[The Heretic]

 

[Joe13]

I'm a huge fan of salmon candy...
Fillet the salmon or steelhead, cut 3" steaks of the fillets.
Pour about 2 cups worth of soy sauce in a bowl, mix with a cup and a half or so of water, 3/4 bag of brown sugar, add about a table spoon of pepper, a few quartered garlic cloves, a table spoon of lemon juice... pretty much sweet and salty to taste.
Soak salmon at over night turning occasionally.
Smoke anywhere from 160-190 for about 4 hours over alder and apple wood chips. Baste every 45 minutes or so with maple syrup filled with coarse ground pepper.
Enjoy!

I like nehalem bay crab as well, and I'm a total sucker for good clam chowder. Rock bass fish & chips are great too!
I like crappie from fresh water, if you can find them safe to eat.

My diabetes came back just reading that post lol

 

[edslhead]

My huntin buddy just got back from campin at SealRocks on Hoods Cannal and he gave me a couple a crabs, some oysters and a dozen or so steamers. Made it into a seafood pizza with alfredo sauce, monteray jack , cheddar and pecorino cheese. Left off the oysters for later and added some bacon

 

[Mikej]

My huntin buddy just got back from campin at SealRocks on Hoods Cannal and he gave me a couple a crabs, some oysters and a dozen or so steamers. Made it into a seafood pizza with alfredo sauce, monteray jack , cheddar and pecorino cheese. Left off the oysters for later and added some bacon

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^^^ Winner Winner, seafood dinner!!

Very cold, fresh out of their beds, oysters on the half shell. The only salmon, if I had MY choice....Properly bled/iced/filleted/skinless, left to settle for 24 hours, early Willamette River spring salmon.

It's all pretty good, and I'll eat any of it with great gusto. Not to much, to often of any one thing though.