Sunday, July 1, 2012
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Gefilte Fish! Cooking Carp...
We chose to honor our carp with an interesting recipe and after a short google search we found one of the most common ways to cook carp is Gefilte Fish... So here we are a couple of guys with no experience in the old world cooking a classic dish.
So like any red-blooded American we went to you tube and found a video of someone making this and we just did what she did. Here is her video if you care to watch.
Ingredients:
2lbs of carp
White Pepper
3 eggs
Matzo
Onion
Carrot
Salt
Sugar
Parsley
Garlic
Oil
Horse Radish Sauce
Boil some water with onion peels, carrots and parsley. Traditionally you'd make a fish stock out of the bones and head of the fish. We are not traditional.
Drop some Matzo in a food processor and pulse it up, then transfer it to a bowl.
Now drop in an onion, garlic, salt, white pepper, oil, sugar into the processor and chop it up. Add that to your bowl.
Here comes the real fun! Add 2lbs of carp fillets to the processor and chop it to a pulp. Once it looks really gross add that to the bowl.
Break 3 eggs into the bowl and mix everything together until it's well blended.
By now your water should be ready, remove all the carrots, onion peels and parsley from the pot.
Shape the fish mush into small oval patties about the size of the palm of your hand and lower them into the pot.
Let them boil for at least 20 minutes.
Serve them hot or cold and dip them into horse radish sauce.
Stay tuned for a video of us eating this fish. We can't tell if it's good Gefilte fish or not, we have no base line. but it reminds us of fish meatloaf...
We now have a freezer full of this fish, so feel free to invite us to your next potluck!
So like any red-blooded American we went to you tube and found a video of someone making this and we just did what she did. Here is her video if you care to watch.
Ingredients:
2lbs of carp
White Pepper
3 eggs
Matzo
Onion
Carrot
Salt
Sugar
Parsley
Garlic
Oil
Horse Radish Sauce
Boil some water with onion peels, carrots and parsley. Traditionally you'd make a fish stock out of the bones and head of the fish. We are not traditional.
Drop some Matzo in a food processor and pulse it up, then transfer it to a bowl.
Here comes the real fun! Add 2lbs of carp fillets to the processor and chop it to a pulp. Once it looks really gross add that to the bowl.
Break 3 eggs into the bowl and mix everything together until it's well blended.
By now your water should be ready, remove all the carrots, onion peels and parsley from the pot.
Shape the fish mush into small oval patties about the size of the palm of your hand and lower them into the pot.
Let them boil for at least 20 minutes.
Serve them hot or cold and dip them into horse radish sauce.
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| YUM! |
Stay tuned for a video of us eating this fish. We can't tell if it's good Gefilte fish or not, we have no base line. but it reminds us of fish meatloaf...
We now have a freezer full of this fish, so feel free to invite us to your next potluck!
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
The Hex is On
Ran into this beauty at the train station in Exeter, NH last night and again this morning. I believe it is Hexegina limbata. From head to tail it was well over 3 inches. This is what a Fish and Game biologist had to say about them last year at this time.
"Beginning about four weeks ago, a large cream-colored mayfly began arriving on waterbodies in Northern New Hampshire. They belong to the genus Hexagenia and are some of the largest mayflies in the world. Referred to as a “Hex-hatch”, these mayflies serve as a dinner-bell for hungry fish. Almost every type of fish will rise for these flies and they are an important food in both their adult (terrestrial) and nymph or emerger (aquatic) stages. Both cold and warmwater fishermen can be seen casting these imitations. Watching a fish rise for a surface strike is as good as fishing gets for me." – Andy Schafermeyer, Regional Fisheries Biologist from http://www.wildlife.state.nh.us/Fishing/Fishing_Reports/2011/071411.htmlSaturday, June 23, 2012
Holy Carp! Fish Number 39!
We've finally done it!
Carp is a fish that we've been chasing for more than a year, quest fans will recall that last summer we went fishing with NH Chronicle for Carp, ended up with a couple of bluegills.
Then in the fall we went bow-fishing for carp with Amy Quinton from NH Public Radio... We mostly just shot arrows into the Merrimack and giggled... NO CARP
Then in desperation we buddied up with carp expert Nick Pacelli from Southern New England Outdoor and Nature Site (blog) Nick taught us all about carp gear, method and Todd Donovan from NH Trout Undiscovered for a December carp adventure... and once again nothing but cold and lots of laughing! But on a positive note we got to canoe up a freezing cold Merrimack River to the coal burning power plant!
We headed out again in January with Uncle Ronnie and were stiffed again...
this time it's personal.
We had two hours of free time this Wednesday and happened to be in Manchester near the airport. So we stopped into 7-11 bought a loaf of Wonderbread and headed to our super secret carp spot.
As we approached the river we could see the carp rolling and splashing. Our hopes were high!
We took a slice of bread, drizzled some vanilla extract onto the bread and squished it around a small hook.
Then we cast it out into the carp zone.
After about 40 minutes the line started to move, Clay set the hook and it was game on!
Clay was fishing with 8lb test and the carp made a few epic runs. After about 5 minutes of fighting and running Clay had the fish at his feet. It was the biggest freshwater fish he had ever landed.
It's scales were bigger than quarters and the fish easily weighed 15lbs! Not too shabby.
After a few pictures we filleted the fish and packed the meat on ice... stay tuned for a recipe.
Carp is a fish that we've been chasing for more than a year, quest fans will recall that last summer we went fishing with NH Chronicle for Carp, ended up with a couple of bluegills.
Then in the fall we went bow-fishing for carp with Amy Quinton from NH Public Radio... We mostly just shot arrows into the Merrimack and giggled... NO CARP
Click here to listen to our adventure on NHPR
Then in desperation we buddied up with carp expert Nick Pacelli from Southern New England Outdoor and Nature Site (blog) Nick taught us all about carp gear, method and Todd Donovan from NH Trout Undiscovered for a December carp adventure... and once again nothing but cold and lots of laughing! But on a positive note we got to canoe up a freezing cold Merrimack River to the coal burning power plant!
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| We're not the most fashionable bunch of anglers! |
We headed out again in January with Uncle Ronnie and were stiffed again...
this time it's personal.
We had two hours of free time this Wednesday and happened to be in Manchester near the airport. So we stopped into 7-11 bought a loaf of Wonderbread and headed to our super secret carp spot.
As we approached the river we could see the carp rolling and splashing. Our hopes were high!
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| The Bait! |
We took a slice of bread, drizzled some vanilla extract onto the bread and squished it around a small hook.
Then we cast it out into the carp zone.
After about 40 minutes the line started to move, Clay set the hook and it was game on!
Clay was fishing with 8lb test and the carp made a few epic runs. After about 5 minutes of fighting and running Clay had the fish at his feet. It was the biggest freshwater fish he had ever landed.
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| Should have brought a bigger cooler! |
It's scales were bigger than quarters and the fish easily weighed 15lbs! Not too shabby.
After a few pictures we filleted the fish and packed the meat on ice... stay tuned for a recipe.
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