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JackKnife, my guess is that you are French... [!--emo&:P--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/tongue.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'tongue.gif\' /][!--endemo--] How can you expect anyone to terminate the life of such a beautiful creature, when one can eat potatoes and be happy... As for me, I just had some bread and cottage cheese [!--emo&:)--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/smile.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'smile.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
[!--QuoteBegin-charlotte+Nov 10 2005, 09:45 AM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(charlotte @ Nov 10 2005, 09:45 AM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]JackKnife, my guess is that you are French... [!--emo&:P--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/tongue.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'tongue.gif\' /][!--endemo--] [/quote]
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I'm French but even in my country there are very few people that know how to catch, kill and cook these animals. I'm from a very peculiar region. (no more comment)
[!--QuoteBegin-charlotte+Nov 10 2005, 09:45 AM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(charlotte @ Nov 10 2005, 09:45 AM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]How can you expect anyone to terminate the life of such a beautiful creature, when one can eat potatoes and be happy... [/quote]
Sensations, adventures, experience, curiosity and ... fondness for food!
If I told you all the animals/plants I've been eating all over the world in the name of this principle...you'd be disgusted probably! [!--emo&:D--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/biggrin.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'biggrin.gif\' /][!--endemo--] [!--emo&:D--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/biggrin.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'biggrin.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
Not to mention the exotic beverages/spirits! [!--emo&;)--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/wink.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'wink.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
Disgusted, no... (Fried insects? Monkey brains? [!--emo&;)--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/wink.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'wink.gif\' /][!--endemo--] )
But ever since I watched some octopus thing bounce away from my plate, I prefer to see the things alive [!--emo&:D--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/biggrin.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'biggrin.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
[!--QuoteBegin-charlotte+Nov 10 2005, 04:35 AM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(charlotte @ Nov 10 2005, 04:35 AM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--](Fried insects? Monkey brains? [!--emo&;)--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/wink.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'wink.gif\' /][!--endemo--] )
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Hmmm, I was reading about those very dishes last night.
[a href=\'http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9687163\' target=\'_blank\']Seven foods that require a fearless stomach[/a]

In case you're too lazy to read the full article (which is very good), here's the 7 foods:
1. Fried spiders
2. Sea cucumber
3. Ortolan
4. Olive loaf
5. Hákarl (putrefied shark)
6. Cobra heart
7. Monkey brains

I have to disagree with #4. I love olive loaf. Ate it all the time as a kid. I didn't find it frightening at all.

For anyone who has never tried them, may I recommend some [a href=\'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_mountain_oysters\' target=\'_blank\']Rocky Mountain oysters[/a]? They're quite good.
 
[!--QuoteBegin-SinisterMinisterX+Nov 10 2005, 11:00 AM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(SinisterMinisterX @ Nov 10 2005, 11:00 AM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]Hmmm, I was reading about those very dishes last night.
[a href=\'http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9687163\' target=\'_blank\']Seven foods that require a fearless stomach[/a]

In case you're too lazy to read the full article (which is very good), here's the 7 foods:
1. Fried spiders
2. Sea cucumber
3. Ortolan
4. Olive loaf
5. Hákarl (putrefied shark)
6. Cobra heart
7. Monkey brains

I have to disagree with #4. I love olive loaf. Ate it all the time as a kid. I didn't find it frightening at all.

For anyone who has never tried them, may I recommend some [a href=\'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_mountain_oysters\' target=\'_blank\']Rocky Mountain oysters[/a]? They're quite good.
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Mhhh! I've ate spider monkey brains (for real). It has a wierd feel when it's in your tongue, but it's not very different for eating cowbrains tacos!
 
Conor, we're trying to talk about real (if unusual) foods here. If you want to gross someone out, take it to fark or some similarly brainless site.
 
[!--QuoteBegin-JackKnife+Nov 10 2005, 11:28 AM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(JackKnife @ Nov 10 2005, 11:28 AM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]I'm quite surprised that nobody made a comment on my recipe.
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Because it took me a few days to check my cooking books to see if it was mentionned. I guess you eat sea anemones when you're on holiday in Corsica but it's not a local recipe, is it ? Where did you learn that recipe Jacko and where can I eat some ? Another point: I think I've read once that some varieties of sea anemones could be poisonous. Is it true ?
 
[!--QuoteBegin-syl+Nov 10 2005, 10:10 PM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(syl @ Nov 10 2005, 10:10 PM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]Because it took me a  few days to check my cooking books to see if it was mentionned. I guess you eat sea anemones when you're on holiday in Corsica but it's not a local recipe, is it ? Where did you learn that recipe Jacko and where can I eat some ? Another point: I think I've read once that some varieties of sea anemones could be poisonous. Is it true ?
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Dear Lady,
First don't call me Jacko alright?
Second you're right: we do eat sea anemones in Corsica. However, only communities located close to the sea do. And we keep the secret for us!
Can sea anemones be poisonous? Bullshit! at leat for temperate species...
Where could you eat some? He he not in a restaurant, even in Corsica! At my place perhaps one day! Beware of species identity if you were to try yourself, not all species can be cooked as I suggested above.
Cheers anyway.
Good luck.

PS: I had some monkey meat in Latin America but I didn't try the brain....
 
[!--QuoteBegin-JackKnife+Nov 11 2005, 04:10 PM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(JackKnife @ Nov 11 2005, 04:10 PM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]First don't call me Jacko alright?
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I won't.

Thanks for the details
 
Let us move up north now, to Sweden. One of the culinary delights of this country is surströmming, fermented fish. It smells so bad (sorry, SMX [!--emo&:)--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/smile.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'smile.gif\' /][!--endemo--]) that I couldn't bring myself to taste it... All of you thirsty for knowledge can read more [a href=\'http://www.svensson.com/norge/sur1.htm\' target=\'_blank\']here[/a].
 
[!--QuoteBegin-charlotte+Nov 11 2005, 10:40 AM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(charlotte @ Nov 11 2005, 10:40 AM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]...It smells so bad (sorry, SMX [!--emo&:)--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/smile.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'smile.gif\' /][!--endemo--])...
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No need to apologize, as you're describing a real food. My earlier comment was directed at someone who had posted about fingernails and bodily secretions as food.
 
[!--QuoteBegin-charlotte+Nov 11 2005, 04:40 PM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(charlotte @ Nov 11 2005, 04:40 PM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]Let us move up north now, to Sweden. One of the culinary delights of this country is surströmming, fermented fish. It smells so bad (sorry, SMX [!--emo&:)--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/smile.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'smile.gif\' /][!--endemo--]) that I couldn't bring myself to taste it... All of you thirsty for knowledge can read more [a href=\'http://www.svensson.com/norge/sur1.htm\' target=\'_blank\']here[/a].
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Ho Boy! I've heard about this one before but unfortunately I couldn't find it. I must pay a visit to Sweden.... [!--emo&:)--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/smile.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'smile.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
[!--QuoteBegin-JackKnife+Nov 12 2005, 12:36 PM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(JackKnife @ Nov 12 2005, 12:36 PM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]I must pay a visit to Sweden.... [!--emo&:)--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/smile.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'smile.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
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[/quote]Seriously, if you like to eat fish as I do (and not just seafood), Sweden is the country. They usually eat it sour with dill, cooked potatoes or knäckebrot (which is ok too), but also with all kinds of nice sauces, au gratin, grilled...
There is also a traditional Swedish crayfish celebration, where bright red crayfish is being served in a family circle with lots of vodka.
 
[!--QuoteBegin-charlotte+Nov 13 2005, 11:16 AM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(charlotte @ Nov 13 2005, 11:16 AM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]There is also a traditional Swedish crayfish celebration, where bright red crayfish is being served in a family circle with lots of vodka.
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Sounds brilliant! [!--emo&:)--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/smile.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'smile.gif\' /][!--endemo--] . I must definitely visit this country!
 
For all those who are interested into simple recipes…
This is a fish recipe (it was my yesterday’s lunch). I used a common fish that belongs to the Triglidae family namely le grondin perlon. A quick look into my books yielded English (tub gurnard) and Spanish (bejel) common names.
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This fish Latin name is Trigla lucerna. It is beautiful fish with wonderful blue pectoral fins. I took a couple of pics to illustrate this post:
T. lucerna has a body shape typical of all the members of the Triglidae family. Its head is bonny and it has large (blue) pectoral fins.
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It is common in western European and Mediterranean costs. Cheap.

My specimen weighed 1.5-2.0 Kg.
I cooked it using a very simple recipe:
Cut 1 Kg of potatoes in 5 mm slices. Put potatoes into a casserole; add salt, 2 bay leaves and a fair amount of pepper. Put the fish (or several smaller specimens if you don’t have a big one). Cook (separately) the onions during 10 min in some butter. Add them to the fish with 60 g of additional butter and a glass of white wine (Australian, Chilean, Italian, Spanish, American wines are inadvisable, always prefer French wines, it's a tip [!--emo&;)--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/wink.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'wink.gif\' /][!--endemo--] ). Close the casserole and cook in oven (210°C) during 40 min (or any other way of cooking).
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I started my meal with oysters and I had white wine all along…
Cheers!
 
I'm simply breathtaken. My next "guess" - you are a sea biologist and/or author of cookery books [!--emo&:D--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/biggrin.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'biggrin.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
[!--QuoteBegin-charlotte+Nov 14 2005, 01:15 PM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(charlotte @ Nov 14 2005, 01:15 PM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]My next "guess" - you are a sea biologist and/or author of cookery books [!--emo&:D--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/biggrin.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'biggrin.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
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You're getting hot! Play again - insert coins! [!--emo&:D--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/biggrin.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'biggrin.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
 
[!--QuoteBegin-JackKnife+Nov 14 2005, 05:05 PM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(JackKnife @ Nov 14 2005, 05:05 PM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]...insert coins...
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[/quote]Oh yeah? I thought Maidenfans was a free site [!--emo&:rolleyes:--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/rolleyes.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'rolleyes.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
But this fish is beautiful indeed, especially the pectoral fins.
 
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