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W00K #17 said:
Didn't take a pic but frog legs with a simple dry rub (flour, black pepper, salt, paprika,and cayenne) baked in the oven served over cajun rice and some asparagus was pretty darn good.
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I have some frog legs, crappie, bass, trout, and other fish I'm going to fry up in the next couple days.
 
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AnOminous said:
I have some frog legs, crappie, bass, trout, and other fish I'm going to fry up in the next couple days.
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How do trout taste fried? I've always baked or grilled them, or tastiest being foil wrapped and thrown on the coals of a wood campfire.

Bass are hit or miss for me. Largemouth where I'm from just taste dirty, but when I've gone on trips and caught them in brackish water when they're eating on shrimp they taste delicious.

I very rarely eat Smallmouth, but sometimes I'll keep one when the water is cold in spring or fall and I'm just not lucky enough to fill my walleye limit. They always taste great fried, but smallies are probably my favorite fish to target in the whole world and I feel all kinds of awful each time I keep one. Never eaten one when the water is warm so cant say how they taste in summer.
 
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W00K #17 said:
How do trout taste fried? I've always baked or grilled them, or tastiest being foil wrapped and thrown on the coals of a wood campfire.
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Those get foil-wrapped and air-fried. I'm thinking lemon and butter. Crappie gets deep fried.
 
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I'm more of a salmon/tilapia guy.

Trying to get into catfish for frying reasons though. Also what's a crappie.
 
AnOminous said:
Those get foil-wrapped and air-fried. I'm thinking lemon and butter. Crappie gets deep fried.
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Ah yeah pretty much cook the same way minus the air fryer. I always cook em whole and gutted with butter everywhere, lemon pepper seasoning and lemon slices stuffed inside and placed outside the trout.

derpherp2 said:
I'm more of a salmon/tilapia guy.

Trying to get into catfish for frying reasons though. Also what's a crappie.
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Catfish are really good, but if you're frying one that's more than about 2 pounds, cut the filets into nugget sized bites before frying. Will cook much more evenly and have a more palatable texture. My cutoff weight for catfish is 5 pounds, any of them over that weight just don't taste as good, and once they've made it that far id rather let them go and possibly grow to be a real giant fish.

Crappie are a super delicious North American panfish that don't get very big. They are tasty af, but not my favorite fish to go after, unless I can get into a bunch of eater sized and larger ones. With light tackle and big crappie around they are very fun.
 
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derpherp2 said:
Made some variety muffins: Choccy by hand, blueberry streusel using kits, cream cheese using leftovers from chocolate muffin stuff.

You REEALLY need to babysit air fryers baking this stuff, the difference between burnt to undercooked is a few minutes. Specially for stuff with streusel on it.

Also duncan haines blueberry streusel muffin mixes are fucking great. I need to know how they add that moist blueberry taste to their flour mix. Also whatever they did to the blueberries themselves. 7 bucks for like a dozen muffins isn't worth it to me. But it's so fucking good. I'm torn.

Could also go the extra mile with a waffle iron: smoosh a ham with chik-fil-a sauce inbetween two uncooked slices, and some cheese - I like mozarella, waffle iron, then put some peach preserves (raspberry preserves is cringe and seeedy) on top.
And you have a monte cristo.
Drizzle bechemel and blowtorch a cheese (I like double cheesing) instead and you have a croque monsieur. Add a poached egg for a croque madame.
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Cuisinart WM-SW2N1 Sandwich Grill, Silver https://a.co/d/57znE4N

I've had one since I was a kid love making sandwiches this way
 
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The leftover s'mores cookies became ice cream sandwiches. That went well.

We are in the stage where no one is really sure they want to eat animals any more, but they are not willing to eat the amount of vegetables that a vegetarian diet requires.

I'm sure they'll make their minds up one way or another. Meanwhile tonight they asked for steak pie lol
 
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W00K #17 said:
Crappie are a super delicious North American panfish that don't get very big. They are tasty af, but not my favorite fish to go after, unless I can get into a bunch of eater sized and larger ones. With light tackle and big crappie around they are very fun.
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I've never seen this in a store. You almost have to know a fisher who catches more than he needs, or be one yourself.
 
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AnOminous said:
I've never seen this in a store. You almost have to know a fisher who catches more than he needs, or be one yourself.
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I've never seen crappie sold in stores. Like I said they aren't a very large fish and it can take some effort to catch enough to feed a group, they can be really easy to catch sometimes but alot of the time it's gonna require some effort and patience. They really aren't a species that can be harvested commercially. I'll target them occasionally but usually I'm just hoping to catch enough to feed myself and my own.



Most anglers aren't going to give them away for free. Unless you're invited to the big friends and neighbors block party fish fry.

Channel cats I will hand out like parade candy if people want em, but I ain't cleaning/filleting them for you. You gotta put in some effort.
 
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Chicken sandwich with salad, Italian cheeses and seasoning.
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Aquired some onigiri molds and now my rice balls are beautiful! I would have done something nicer than dumping furikake on them but I was half asleep while doing my lunch prep today. Paired with leftover breaded chicken and half an avocado.
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Breakfast was another rice ball with pork sausage patties:
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