Bower wrote: ↑Fri Feb 04, 2022 7:33 pm Duck soup. Been boiling the remains for days until everything left fell off the bones. Picked out the bones - most of them anyway. Frozen tomatoes, fresh local carrots at the end. Was tempted to use pasta but in the end I went with some pearl barley.
The duck wasn't cheap to begin with, it fed three of us plus one meal of leftovers, and the soup makes another three servings I reckon. So that gets it down to... oh a bit less than $3 a serving. Yikes.

karstopography wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 4:19 am @Bower Newfoundland has to have great Atlantic Salmon. Is there any wild caught Atlantic Salmon still available up there? I would think Newfoundland might have a viable Salmon fishery, but I don’t know. Seems like I read not too long ago people still travel to Labrador to fish for wild Atlantic Salmon.

Wonder what live “Maine” Lobster runs up there? Here, it is way way up there, approaching $20 a pound for a live one from the tank at HEB. Once in a while pre-Covid, we could get it at about $8/#. I’d watch for the shipments and try to get on one fresh batch that had the lower price. Might have been a once a year deal to have it all lined up.

When I lived in and or travelled to New England, some people I knew had lobster pots off Chatham MA. They had some great harvests in the 1990s and I’d get in on those lobster feasts once in a while. Talk about good. Personally, I liked lobster best steamed and served with melted butter and a little lemon.

I loved all the NE seafood, especially the shellfish, the quahogs, blue mussels, soft shelled clams, briny Cape Cod oysters. Of course, not everyone that lives up there likes seafood.

Bower wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 6:55 am @karstopography the salmon I get is Atlantic for sure, but IDK if wild or farmed. There is a recreational salmon fishery here but the fishery for wild salmon is very small or none. All salmon fisheries are closely managed due to the long term damage done to those stocks. We used to get some Arctic Char from Labrador waters, which is more like trout than salmon. There is some sea trout as well but again, very small stocks remaining so not a significant fishery. No other pink fish beats the delicious Atlantic salmon, for me. I am a huge fan of cod as well, but you have to look closely if buying that in the supermarket, so many white fish have been sold as 'cod' but they don't come close to it in taste. Fresh cod is fantastic. There is a food fishery in summer where you can catch your own, but you need a boat for that. Lobster is one of the local fisheries, and Snow Crab has become a big one since the cod moratorium. They are certainly expensive and when you reckon the weight of the shell in a price per kilo, very expensive indeed. I don't crave either of them enough to bother, although lobster is a flavorful treat when you can get it. Shrimp are always available frozen, and sometimes a reasonable price, so I usually have some of that in the freezer. Some are local, some not. Blue Mussels are the real success story for us. They are easily cultivated here just by seeding them on ropes, no extra feeds or chemicals so the product is certified organic, and the one local product that is available here at a reasonable price.
My dad was a marine biologist, so you can guess that we ate every kind of seafood growing up. But I think every Newfoundlander grew up on seafood anyway.
Curiously in my parents' youth they never ate lobster, considering it 'dirty' and a bottom feeder. They used to put them on the gardens!

worth1 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 8:15 am People aren't in the least bit logical when it comes to eating food.
Social prejudice is at the top of the list.
Look how lobster changed from food the feed servants to only the well to do could afford.
People of all classes once ate squirrel.

Bower wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 10:15 am I have a pretty big prejudice against the 'insect powder' they are starting to market as the food of the future. Why? IDK but no interest in trying it, whatsoever.
Maybe as an organic gardener, the inevitable consumption of this or that insect by mistake has made me biased.
Never tasted anything so bitter and nasty as those cabbage butterfly caterpillars... yech!
It's enough to make you work hard to pick the bugs OUT of your dinner.

worth1 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 12:24 pm You can eat a locust but not a catfish.
A carp but not a shrimp.

Bower wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 1:08 pm I've seen chocolate covered ants for sale... no not interested, not even then.
What do you take me for... a woodpecker????!!!
If insects are so easy to raise, great, lots of food for chickens and ducks.

We also went to Expo 67. I remember eating maple fudge. Maple other things too. Maybe maple everything. I remember eating flavored yoghurt (a novelty for us at the time).
Completely missed the wormy piecrust.
I can take some comfort in the fact they were touting bugs as future food in 1967, that's 50 years without any success whatsoever.