Your favorite PNW seafood?

[Yarome]

Simple is always better! Salt, pepper, lemon, butter, garlic, and maybe just a pinch of sage cause it's how Gramma did it! Can go nuts from there with pan fried and sauteed goodness with fancy schmancy wine sauces and exotic rubs, but I much prefer simple, let the food do the talking, not the foo-foo!

Exactly this. It's the preparation and cook you put on it... not the foo-foo that makes seafood shine.

 

[Knobgoblin]

Please don't marinate premium proteins unless you are really bored.
Just build a complimentary sauce.

 

[Koda]

Favorite sauces, marinades, etc. for seafood?

Drizzle Dijon butter sauce over baked salmon and thank me later...

2tbsp butter
1tbsp dijon mustard
1/2 lemon, squeeze the juice
simmer 3 minutes.

 

[Ura-Ki]

Drizzle Dijon butter sauce over salmon and thank me later...

2tbsp butter
1tbsp dijon mustard
1/2 lemon, squeeze the juice
simmer 3 minutes.

Add a little Miricle Whip to that and bake in the Oven, ........................magical!

 

[Mikej]

Why ruin perfectly fresh and delicious sea fruits?? Keep it natural! Light spice, a lemon squeeze... and of course... BUTTER!

I will say, we've been using a specific seasoning blend for close to 30 years now. Perfect for just about anything, but especially shines on sea fruits. The garlic gourmay's zesty garlic blend. Practically a "family secret" ingredient everyone always raves about... so keep it under your hat.

Zesty Garlic Seasoning 10oz.

For anything you like garlic on...bread, veggies meats, potatoes...everything!

garlicgourmay.com

A proprietary blend of garlic salt, onion, black pepper, basil and chili pepper. Any protein, garlic bread, hot butter dipping sauce... you name it.

Yes! Only thing I'd add to the "Simple" thing is Dill. Dried dill/fresh dill. When I used to get the Salmon/Steelhead, clams, crab, oysters, perch (still get some oysters a couple/three times a year) the first eating was very basic seasonings. After that I'd do a little more with them. Crab for instance, heaps of it on a simple crab salad. Oysters, on the half shell, with nothing more than 3 drops of FRESH lemon juice. Next eating, crab cakes.

 

[NeoBlackdog]

Add a couple of roasted peppers to your butter as you melt it and then dip your crab or what have you in that. Mmmmm...

 

[ma96782]

IF, you're buying and stockpiling canned tuna. Food for thought. Without even mentioning the FAKE TUNA stuff.

MSN

Aloha, Mark

PS.........WAIT, Wait, wait.......What was that about FAKE tuna?

An Alarming Amount Of The Tuna You Eat Isn't Tuna. Here's How To Spot A Fake.

Oceana has reported rampant mislabeling of fish. Here's how to know what you're getting.

www.huffpost.com

 

[Yarome]

IF, you're buying and stockpiling canned tuna. Food for thought. Without even mentioning the FAKE TUNA stuff.

MSN

Aloha, Mark

PS.........WAIT, Wait, wait.......What was that about FAKE tuna?

An Alarming Amount Of The Tuna You Eat Isn't Tuna. Here's How To Spot A Fake.

Oceana has reported rampant mislabeling of fish. Here's how to know what you're getting.

www.huffpost.com

That does change things.
If you eat your seafood out of a can then yes.... you'll need all the "foo-foo" you can muster to fool yourself into thinking it actually tastes good.

 

[fishfearme]

Trout. My favorite tasting fish hands down. Salmon and steelhead are similar and a close second to me.
Maybe it's childhood memories but a good trout with some lemon after some fishing/camping puts me in heaven

 

[Mikej]

Trout. My favorite tasting fish hands down. Salmon and steelhead are similar and a close second to me.
Maybe it's childhood memories but a good trout with some lemon after some fishing/camping puts me in heaven

Used to love trout myself. But then, the trout I grew up catching/eating had natural pink/red meat. The stuff they call trout now grosses me out just touching it. Get me some high lake Brookies and I'd fry em ' up and eat skin, meat and the crispy fins!

 

[fishfearme]

Used to love trout myself. But then, the trout I grew up catching/eating had natural pink/red meat. The stuff they call trout now grosses me out just touching it. Get me some high lake Brookies and I'd fry em ' up and eat skin, meat and the crispy fins!

This. High elevation brook is great! Used to fish the upper truckee river in ca had some great book trout there. The scenery couldn't be beat

 

[Koda]

Used to love trout myself. But then, the trout I grew up catching/eating had natural pink/red meat. The stuff they call trout now grosses me out just touching it. Get me some high lake Brookies and I'd fry em ' up and eat skin, meat and the crispy fins!

if I understand right Brook trout are an invasive species here in Oregon and can even hurt the native species...?

 

[oremike]

Dungeness Crab stuffed Bacon wrapped Prawns. I don't remember where I ate them but now I want some.

 

[orygun]

Dungeness Crab stuffed Bacon wrapped Prawns. I don't remember where I ate them but now I want some.

Oh, Hell Yeah!

 

[Tony617]

Dungeness Crab stuffed Bacon wrapped Prawns. I don't remember where I ate them but now I want some.

Everything tastes better with bacon. I enjoyed bacon wrapped scallops, bacon wrapped filet mignon, plain bacon. Yummy!

 

[NeoBlackdog]

if I understand right Brook trout are an invasive species here in Oregon and can even hurt the native species...?

Technically, yes, but they've been there so long they'll never be eradicated. They compete with Bull Trout.

 

[Mikej]

if I understand right Brook trout are an invasive species here in Oregon and can even hurt the native species...?

Yeah, supposedly. I came to Portland from Utah in 1983. Was a fisherman from an early age with my grandpa and dad. And by myself or W/friend when I was in my tweens. Camping trips with family through ID, WY, MT and all over Utah. It was a shock moving here and finding such sterile waters in the high mountains, creeks and rivers. Utah fish and game made sure waters had fish, all kinds. For some reason many populations of fish there bred successfully. Even in high mountain lakes and streams.
I look back and now and know that those were the best fishing days of my life.

 

[Koda]

Technically, yes, but they've been there so long they'll never be eradicated. They compete with Bull Trout.

Ive never understood it how they manage brookies, in some streams they have no limit or size limit. Slaughter them essentially.

But then in other streams they have a limit or are closed to fishing entirely.

Brookies are a delicious trout.

 

[MacReady]

IF, you're buying and stockpiling canned tuna. Food for thought. Without even mentioning the FAKE TUNA stuff.

MSN

Aloha, Mark

PS.........WAIT, Wait, wait.......What was that about FAKE tuna?

An Alarming Amount Of The Tuna You Eat Isn't Tuna. Here's How To Spot A Fake.

Oceana has reported rampant mislabeling of fish. Here's how to know what you're getting.

www.huffpost.com

I had no idea this morning I would be reading about how common fake fish is and that will cause "anal leakage" so thanks for that I guess... I think I need another cup of coffee lol

 

[NeoBlackdog]

Ive never understood it how they manage brookies, in some streams they have no limit or size limit. Slaughter them essentially.

But then in other streams they have a limit or are closed to fishing entirely.

Brookies are a delicious trout.

I think the theory is that in waters that historically or currently sustain populations of Bull Trout the Brookies are considered vermin and so they want them gone.
Truth is, we've altered things so very much that the ecosystems will never go back to the eco-freak Utopian ideal of a landscape free of the effects of man unless, of course, we are willing to eliminate man from the equation.