[Magdalen] Winter Boredom

[Jay Weigel]

Except for the fish my brothers caught, mostly bluegills and crappies, we
didn't get fish very often....fish sticks and those amorphous squares of
breaded fish that I always referred to as "fish planks" were about it. My
mom did have a thing she did with ocean perch and tomato sauce that was
pretty good, but mostly she couldn't cook fish. She *murdered* scallops,
and as a result I hated them until I was well grown up and had them cooked
properly at the shore. Then I discovered how yummy they really are. I
really discovered fish and seafood in high school when a local restaurant
had something they called a Seven Seas Buffet on Fridays. My friends and I
would save our allowances and go out maybe once every couple of months if
we weren't dating anyone and enjoy that. Yummy! Now if I get anywhere near
the ocean, it's seafood all the time.

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I grew up in Michigan and ate fresh water fish all my life... caught by us
> or bought in the store.  My dad loved 'pan fish' (Blue Gills, Bass, Perch)
> and taught me how to clean (gut) and remove the head and scales, dust with
> flour then cook them whole in the pan (then on the plate we gently ran a
> knife up backbone, peeling back one side  like opening a book, and then
> removed the bones in one gentle tug).  I loved Superior Whitefish when in
> college in the UP and also fresh water herring - so delicious gently baked
> with butter in a 400 oven *briefly*.  And Walleye Pike.... oh, I do miss
> freshwater fish.
> Lynn
>
> ps. a friend told me recently of a restaurant in St. Ignace that served
> fried whitefish livers and that they were delicious - anyone ever have
> those??
>
> Lynn
>
> My email has changed to: houstonKLR at gmail.com
>
> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>
> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not
> a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me."
> attributed to Erma Bombeck
>
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> From: "Cantor03--- via Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 1:24 PM
> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Winter Boredom
>
>
>>
>> In a message dated 1/30/2015 1:13:39 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> fleenerj at gmail.com writes:
>>
>> Whitefish from
>> Lake Michigan, carefully baked or broiled, never  dried out.>>>
>>
>> My mother, who was generally a very good cook, literally murdered
>> the seafood we had available in the Upper Midwest of the 1940's and
>> 1950's.  Shellfish, and the common fish filets now available  were
>> not yet on the horizon in the 1940's there.
>>
>> We lived on one of the innumerable lakes, and relatives and friends
>> would bring us tons of freshwater lake fisn - Crappies, Sunfish,  etc.,
>> and always  not cleaned - providing an unpleasant task for us  kids.
>>
>> Mother fried the hell out of these fish and they came out tough and
>> bony.  I did not like fish as a result.
>>
>> Enter my Uncle Utz and Aunt Alma.  They lived at the edge of  Lake
>> Superior, and had the good stuff available, especially Lake Superior
>> Whitefish.  And Aunt Alma knew how to prepare it.  It was  wonderful,
>> and restored my faith in sea (lake) food.
>>
>>
>> David Strang.
>>
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