Rick Stein fishing for Pike tonight...

[KAYC]

Never tried one but depending on the habitat would not be adverse to trying one, Would it be better cooked whole and picked of the bones?

[jeepster]

depends how you want to serve it, that would make it a bit messy at the table. it's usually filleted then flaked

[zedhead]

enough, i cant stand the talk of eating my favorite fish any longer, talk about eating carp instead, dont they purge carp to get rid of their muddy taste? japs and chinks rate carp as good fodder dont they, youd only have to nip down to the local carp puddle for an hour to fill the freezer for a month!

[jeepster]

calm down zed! carp is another popular fish around the world, i've eaten it in hong kong and poland, not that i'd bother having it again. most nations don't have these double standards (and thats not a personal dig ) about eating coarse fish rather than game or sea fish, seems to be only us brits. never been sure why

[GlennB]

zedhead:

enough, i cant stand the talk of eating my favorite fish any longer, talk about eating carp instead, dont they purge carp to get rid of their muddy taste? ....

A piker at a local lake recommended cutting your pike crosswise like salmon steaks and soaking them overnight in strong salted water, to get rid of the muddy taste. He reckoned they end up with a nice firm texture like monkfish or scampi. Mmmmmm .... yum. Must try it one day.

[smalltincup]

Carp are quite nice if you serve them with a basil/tomato and garlic sauce. Guess you could have a big dinner party if you cooked a 50+ carp. Wot you recon??

[jeepster]

lets do it glenn! dinner round at mine one day

[Norfolkdan]

zedhead:

enough, i cant stand the talk of eating my favorite fish any longer

Don't bother looking at the thread then

 

[ 14. September 2005, 07:51 PM: Message edited by: Norfolkdan ]

[zedhead]

I quite like the idea of eating food that i catch fish or otherwise, which may be a bit odd coming from an ecology student, however if we all kept our catch there would be no fish left in a week. It is strange how us brits dont eat our coarse fish and even some sea fish, that other nations/cultures thrive upon, conger springs to mind and obviously carp, zander etc. is it because we have evolved past that need to kill everything in england as apposed to under developed nations such as china, spain, greece and portugal where the attitude is very much 'if it moves kill it'.

[Norfolkdan]

zedhead:

that other nations/cultures thrive upon, conger springs to mind and obviously carp, zander etc.

and PIKE