Never ever throw a fish head or frame away!

[HiDelight]

I am making this most wonderful soup for dinner

http://beyondsalmon.blogspot.com/2007/02/uha-russian-fish-soup.html

seriously I was given a bunch of beautiful HUGE salmon heads and tails and wow I can tell you they are my favorite parts !!! I do not get the way folks freak if there is a head on their fish (my dear friend makes me put a napkin over the eyes of our whole fried fish when we go out! so I make a bandana and blindfold the fish just for her

..to me it looking it the eyes assures I am getting a fish !

Sad part is if I had not been excited to take the ..they were going to be tossed

then this wonderful soup would not be heading to my table today ..this is a must try recipe

want to share fish/shellfish, soup, stew, tea and chowdah recipes?

 

[injunjoe]

Yummy that sounds good!

The meat in the jowl is the best on the fish!

Not sure if you all seen this on the news or not but imported fish was being sold as Grouper, this fish looked nothing like Grouper. Can't fool this old redneck!

Restaurants were sold boxes labeled Grouper so the sold it as such.

 

[obsessed]

I also dig a fish head... I am definately a tail to snout type person.

 

[HiDelight]

I prefer to only eat fish when I see where it comes out of the water

Pretty easy to do here

I am by no means a redneck..but I know what I am getting when I buy or receive fish ..it is always smart to learn about all the types of fish so you know what to do with it ..I like many fish that other people call "trash" fish but only because I did not know that was what they were called when I ate them!

I hate when people try to fool folks it is so not needed in life ..bad Karma I say!


Yup Obsessed nose to the toes


waste nothing! What is the point of doing in anything if you are going to waste!

(this soup is so good I feel like I have been reborn )

seriously it is the best ever ..I changed the recipe added some tomatoes and spiced it up a lot ..then I did not have potatoes so will serve it for dinner with rice (if it lasts I keep having bowls of the broth!)

make fish stock you guys! use any fish you like but you have to try your own fish stock

I use James Beard's process ..I did when I started anyway I may have embellished over the what 45 years I have been cooking? wow that dates me (I a 51 inf you want to know)
To make the stock
clean the fish heads well get rid of the gills and anything that looks nasty (gills and guts and boiling hard make fish stock bitter)

put into a pot cover with water and half a bottle of good white wine ..I used a lemongrass sake I had on hand instead
a big handful of fresh herbs..they must (for me taste varies) include Italian parsley ..fennel, a nice strip of ginger, bay leaves, rosemary and thyme

simmer (for about 20 min) ..do not boil...strain pick the meat off and restrain ( I picked over a pound of beautiful salmon chunks off two heads and two tails).. add back bones and high simmer with the herbs salt and fresh cracked pepper also 6 to 8 smashed up roasted Roma tomatoes.. for about 35 min ..let sit until cool in a bowl of ice water ..strain (I strain through a strainer then a stainer with a piece of cheese cloth ..I like this to be clear)


I then made the soup above with the changes I said ..now I am staring at my accomplishment wondering if now is too early for dinner ???

I could do the backstroke in a bowl of this stuff

who does not love soup?

 

[curly_kate]

Can't say I come across too many salmon head here in the midwest. More likely to get catfish heads.

 

[HiDelight]

Can't say I come across too many salmon head here in the midwest. More likely to get catfish heads.

can you make soup out of catfish heads I wonder?
I know I have made a trout chowder but I used some smoked trout because the flavor was a little muddy

trout stock ..failure with out smoked trout in it

but crayfish shells and heads ..make wonderful stock ! crayfish bisque

you have those there I betcha

 

[HiDelight]

try these Jewish fish meatballs they are really good and can be made out of any fish ..in fact they should be made out of things like carp even it is a way to make a muddy fish taste good and really I adore this dish with beetroot horseradish

Happy New Year :bouquet

http://www.jewishrecipes.org/recipes/gefilte-fish/index.html