Shrimp Season (pay, today)

[Maineah]

Originally Posted by tcrackly

I just saw headless ME shrimp at Hannaford's for $4.29/lb.

Do you know if they were fresh?? Sometimes they freeze them.

[tcrackly]

I think they were fresh ones by the look of them. I ended up giving in to a craving and buying a few "fresh" scallops. I hope they are O.K.

[Maineah]

Originally Posted by tcrackly

I think they were fresh ones by the look of them. I ended up giving in to a craving and buying a few "fresh" scallops. I hope they are O.K.

Hannaford has pretty good seafood. I do ask to smell the haddock filets before I buy them as i have purchased some bad ones before. They make it right though.

[tcrackly]

Unfortunately my DH has bad memories of seafood truck loading from his youth. To him "fresh" means i day out of the net or off the hook. If it's been frozen at sea maybe. He always reminds me of how long the boat is out...3-6 days at sea, 2 days at the exchange, 1-3 days on the retail display. I 'll catch hell for these scallops for sure.

[toadling81]

I'm loving the abundance of cheap seafood right now. I am pregnant and my cravings are for nothing but seafood! Well, just shellfish mostly, but oh, the haddock chowder!!! We actually made a main course of shrimp cocktail last night, such good winter weather food.

[elston]

I bought a pound of maine shrimp tonight at Hannaford's they arent as small as I thought they would be. The fishmonger said the season is going to be 6 months this year.....last year it was a very short season because of scarity of shrimp.....but he said there are tons of them this year....;He did say as the season goes on ..... the shrimp have a shorter time they stay fresh....so this is the ideal time to get them. He also said, I would never taste shrimp as sweet and flavorful.

I plan to saute them in garlic butter (quick as a flash) and serve them in the rough on the thin linguini.....with perhaps some steamed spinach.

[CoastalMaine]

Originally Posted by toadling81

I'm loving the abundance of cheap seafood right now. I am pregnant and my cravings are for nothing but seafood! Well, just shellfish mostly, but oh, the haddock chowder!!! We actually made a main course of shrimp cocktail last night, such good winter weather food.

Toady,

Congratulations on your pregnancy! When is your due date? Is this your first baby?

I do not want to alarm you, only caution you. Please be aware of seafood safe ingestion while you're pregnant. Do some research and check with your doctor for your baby's safety, okay? You probably already know this, but since I'm a grammy, I tend to fret about such things!

Here's one link:

Pregnant?* Congratulations!* Now what to eat and what to avoid - (http://deliciousorganics.com/PregnantNursing/pregnant.htm#avoid - broken link) eating <---shoot, the link keeps cutting off the -eating part... so when you get to the page, scroll down to 'What you shouldn't eat'

[Fish man Ed]

Come on folks,cookie cuuter scallops? clam mussels for bay scallops? I have worked with seafood for many years and still do and I have never heard of that bing true.

[Maineah]

Originally Posted by Fish man Ed

Come on folks,cookie cuuter scallops? clam mussels for bay scallops? I have worked with seafood for many years and still do and I have never heard of that bing true.

As a kid in Yarmouth I saw people make "scallops" out of skate with a cookie cutter myself. Some elderly people who could not afford to buy real scallops made them. They skates were very cheap or even free if you knew a fisherman who was dragging scallops. From what I have heard from those who ate them regularly they are very close in texture and taste to a regular scallop. I have also seen people take what we called the sweet meat from large surf clams, essentially the shell muscles, bread them and fry them just like little bay scallops. They were a favorite of a friend of mine who was a big surf clam guy.(he still is). He fried them up and put them in hotdog rolls with mayo and lettuce and called them "scallop" rolls. I have eaten this sweet meat myself a number of times and they DO resemble a bay scallop. They are a little tougher when cooked but they taste very much like a bay scallop. There were no Bay scallops around here when were kids just the big ones. In fact bay scallops were slow to catch on because people thought they were just the sweet meat from a big clam!!
This stuff wasn't normally for sale in fish markets but rumor has it the cookie cutter scallops were sighted once in a while.
We ate a lot of fish cooked a thousand different ways back then. We were Catholic and did not eat meat on Fridays. So Friday was fish night for literally everyone we knew. There were some strange recipes and cooking methods back then and a fair number of people who, despite not being well off, found a way to eat some sort of fish on Friday.

[elston]

My Dad swore the skate were used to cut mock scallops.....and he said sometimes you would find the skate wing....with the little cookie cutter holes cut in it. My Dad never misled me....so I trust it was done.