Best Shellfish?

[Nyati]

I prefer my shellfish from cold waters, the region of Galicia in NW Spain has great lobster, crab, clam, you name it ! Ireland also has very good shellfish.

An exception is a type of prawn which is only found in southern Spain, on the Atlantic coast, which is just delicious.

 

[Safari Dave]

Maine Lobster for me!

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

I’m not sure I have ever tried a shellfish other than shrimp. Perhaps it’s due to my proximity to the sea, I’m in rural Illinois, or maybe I just need to get out more.
Fresh seafood is hard to find. I would have to drive at least an hour, probably two, to find seafood that has not been dead for a couple days.
Also, neither of my parents like seafood, so I was never exposed to it. I’ll try it sometime just not sure when.

You’ve got an open invite up here any time Wyatt I’ll put you up and introduce you to the world of shellfish.

 

[WAB]

You’ve got an open invite up here any time Wyatt I’ll put you up and introduce you to the world of shellfish.

I’m coming back in October. Let’s grab a schooner.

 

[Wyatt Smith]

You’ve got an open invite up here any time Wyatt I’ll put you up and introduce you to the world of shellfish.

That’s awful kind. If I’m ever up that way (not too unlikely, grandpa’s siblings are scattered across Canada) I’ll sure look you up.
If you ever happen to be down here I’ll cook us a beef tenderloin, although I’m sure you know all about those.

 

[steve white]

Forgot about the humble choice of a good clam chowder!

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

I’m coming back in October. Let’s grab a schooner.

I’m sure something can be arranged, I probably could scare up a few birds if your still looking for a big pheasant.

 

[cajunchefray]

Born in Thibodaux and grew up in Lake Charles. Spent my life on 14 ft flat bottoms until I went off to the army (to my dermatologist's delight).

Back in the early eighties when I was a starving captain, my new bride and I would take the boat and two huge igloo ice chests into the Rockefeller Reserve and fill one with blue crabs twice the size of anything ever shipped to Maryland and the other with specks and reds. We would keep a dozen or two crabs for ourselves and half a dozen specks. The remainder went to the seafood dealer. We were flush for a couple of weeks.

But stone crab claws...................

@RedLeg, the seafood catches for you and your wife, a King's meal.

 

[cajunchefray]

Yes, Louisiana Crawfish, well purged in clear running water (not called "mudbugs" for nothing). clean them up, then Zartarians Crab Boil, or Old Bay, some whole lemon, fresh garlic cloves, small red potatoes, salt.

I find this discussion fascinating, as just a Cajun from Louisiana, that gets to cook and has traveled a little bit,

My humble takeaway is that seafood, around the world, has some specialness. Harvested fresh, and prepared properly, really good eating.

Thats when I appreciated mussels from Prince Edward Island, the ancestral home of my relatives from Nova Scotia.

 

[mark-hunter]

Less known, one of the best.
Mediteranean shell fish, often confused with word shrimp, or prawn, Scampi are neither.
They are with hard shell )as opposed to shrimps soft shell= and they are close relative to lobster (lat. Homarus gammarus)

So, the champions of mediteranea cuisine

Scampi
(Nephrops norvegicus), sometimes called norweigan lobster - not to bi mixed with shrimp)

They inhabit Mediterranean waters and eastern Atlantic waters up till Norway and Sweden.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

I find this discussion fascinating, as just a Cajun from Louisiana, that gets to cook and has traveled a little bit,

My humble takeaway is that seafood, around the world, has some specialness. Harvested fresh, and prepared properly, really good eating.

Thats when I appreciated mussels from Prince Edward Island, the ancestral home of my relatives from Nova Scotia.

estu descendant des acadians de l’explosion ? Si oui, est votre nom de famille et d’ou’ Viennent von ancestries?

 

[Challer]

I’m not sure I have ever tried a shellfish other than shrimp. Perhaps it’s due to my proximity to the sea, I’m in rural Illinois, or maybe I just need to get out more.
Fresh seafood is hard to find. I would have to drive at least an hour, probably two, to find seafood that has not been dead for a couple days.
Also, neither of my parents like seafood, so I was never exposed to it. I’ll try it sometime just not sure when.

There walleye a perch for you guys

 

[Challer]

It’s hard to imagine lobster was considered prison food up to the early 1900’s

 

[DieJager]

Goose barnacles

 

[Wyatt Smith]

There walleye a perch for you guys

Don’t forget crappie!

 

[steve white]

Spot prawns from Alaska and abalone

really fresh abalone is a TREAT, only had it in San Francisco personally--would make the trip there just for that alone.

 

[BigGame]

Interesting shellfish at the fish market in Dar es Salaam. The local fishermen were explaining that the Chinese prize these shellfish. I was more interested is checking out the sea snakes and other crazy ocean creatures in the market.

 

[booker]

My top 4, there are more but these are the ones I would make a special trip for.

1. Conch and Spiny Lobster in the West Indies for sure #1
2. Stone Crab in Florida
3. The plethora of clams and mussels off Ireland and Scotland
4. Paella I had in Malaga Spain

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

Many years ago, we stayed at the Oyster Bay hotel just north of Dar es Salaam. In those days it was more a collection of shacks. We had a huge plate of prawns and when they came they smelt a little off. We feasted anyway and they were delicious, and no ill effects beyond the normal Dar gut. Best prawns I have ever had.

 

[Hunt anything]

Interesting shellfish at the fish market in Dar es Salaam. The local fishermen were explaining that the Chinese prize these shellfish. I was more interested is checking out the sea snakes and other crazy ocean creatures in the market.
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We call those bulldozers here on the gulf coast, taste like spiny lobsters.