Cola's Croaker
During the summer the river is full of Croaker and we love to eat them. However it is always a daunting task of cleaning a pile of croaker after fishing. Plus you always loose a lot of meat when you filet out a croaker. Dave came up with a delicious solution to loosing meat when cleaning. Granted you do not save a lot of time when cleaning, because you do have to scale all the fish. This was the second time this summer we had Cola's croaker and we decided to make Croaker taco's on the patio.
Cola's croaker
1) Scale the fish completely
2) Cut all the way down the belly and remove all insides (return to the bay)
3) Cut out the gills!!
4) Place whole fish on a cookie sheet
5) Get the grill "fired up"
6) make cuts down the sides of the fish (4-5 on each side)
7) oil down the fish with canola oil
8) Season with old bay, blackened fish seasoning, soul seasoning, and pepper
9) Then grill the whole fish (a large spatula is handy)
10) Grill until you can pull the fish apart
11) Picking through a fish is fun and there is a lot less meat wasted when eating this way
Last night dave kept the cookie sheet on the grill and picked through the fish while people put together taco's! On a soft shell we placed cheese, lettuce from the garden, salsa (can't wait till we have our own salsa), avocado, lime, sour cream, and a big scoop of croaker!!! The kids loved it!! It was delicious. The best part... is the process. Hanging out on the patio, thankfully cooler evening, mojito's, kids playing, and people could eat when they were hungry. Eric came over after he and I were unsuccessful catching a carp in Rosegill (he wants to add a carp to his species list of fish caught) He takes off on Tuesday, we are going to miss him, but we will visit him in British Columbia and I hopefully can add salmon to my species list!!! Maybe we will make salmon taco's?
Cola's croaker
1) Scale the fish completely
2) Cut all the way down the belly and remove all insides (return to the bay)
3) Cut out the gills!!
4) Place whole fish on a cookie sheet
5) Get the grill "fired up"
6) make cuts down the sides of the fish (4-5 on each side)
7) oil down the fish with canola oil
8) Season with old bay, blackened fish seasoning, soul seasoning, and pepper
9) Then grill the whole fish (a large spatula is handy)
10) Grill until you can pull the fish apart
11) Picking through a fish is fun and there is a lot less meat wasted when eating this way
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