In France, a seafood platter is not unlike this. It’s called plateau fruits de mer, or just fruits de mer, and usually comes on a multi-tiered tower that makes it look like a slimy wedding cake. Needless to say, the best fruits de mer are startlingly fresh. I don’t remember the exact moment I conceived this idea, but I’m pretty sure it was inspired by this French version of a seafood platter. I found a lot to appreciate in my European travels and consider myself a changed and better man for them, but I will admit I prefer our seafood from the Gulf of Mexico. Fried.
137 responses to ““I seafood, I eat it!””
Yuck. Gimme a hamburger.
Debbe 😉 In my experience, receiving $100 tips often involves the female server bending forward facing the customer, or bending over facing away from the customer, while wearing something skimpy. 😉 Not always of course, so just sayin’…I’m not casting any aspersions at you or Janis.
I have probably mentioned I am a generous tipper. “Quality of service” comes first in my calculation of the amount, but I, like most males, may have sometimes factored in a little extra for “scenery”.
Terrie the Leggy Housekeeper has not arrived yet, so I will give the outfit report later. Wasn’t there a C&W song something like “I Like My Housekeepers a Little Bit Trashy”?
Ghost Sweetie, this is for you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfXs0m32A8E
reminds me of my trips to Japan !
I’m with you Jimmy, I loved the seafood from the Gulf.
I can’t eat shellfish and have never been a great fan of seafood in general, but because of my trips to Japan, I enjoy calamari. However, I agree with Jimmy, I like mine fried. I really enjoy a pan fried perch. As a matter of fact, I like most everything pan fried over deep fried. You still get the crunch, but it feels lighter.
Steve:
Presume that means you have a crustacean [shrimp, lobster, crab] allergy, but have no problem w/ clams, mussels, or oysters, which, like calamari [squid] are mollusks. Right?
Peace,
Seafood platter – Yum!
GR 😉 that was back when halter tops were the rage with bare midriffs 🙂
I too miss the fresh shrimp, oysters from the Gulf when I lived in Corpus Christi. When I lived with Ian’s father there in CC, he would love to surf fish in the Gulf. Would bring home some nice size red fish, the ones with the big red dot on the back fin. One would actually get red fish ‘steaks’ from them, also loved the ‘spanish specked bay bass’. Would load the grill and smoke the fillets with fresh fruit and veggies
Steve, when smaller fish were brought home, they were scaled and gutted. I then soaked them in a little salt water, rinse and drain, made an egg batter which I dipped my fish then I rolled them in corn meal and placed them in an oven temp of 350 degrees until they were flaky, added some garlic lemony butter on them….yum!!! No greasey mess!!
…oh, and there is nothing like fresh shrimp brought in that morning from the shrimp boats nightly trawling.
Thanks, Jean dear! Gotten up off your tush yet? 🙂
Gulf coast or east coast or French, I’ll eat seafood anywhere! Yummm!
I once spent over two weeks crawling down east coast from Maryland to Georgia eating seafood three meals a day.
Granted that isn’t longest crawl possible, a crab might have made it. But I literally ate breakfast, lunch and dinner from ocean.
My late husband said he expected me to scuttle sideways under a rock.
Debbe 😉 Yes, halter tops with shorts or a short skirt are normally good for an extra 10% gratuity…as long as no “muffin tops” are involved. 🙂
Ghost and I are going to Maine to see Symply and for a sailing cruise for the Tall Ship Rendezvous. I am planning to eat lobster three meals per day if possible.
One thing the Mary Day does is take you out on a barren island and do an authentic lobster boil.
I don’t know emb. I don’t like the consistency of clams, mussels, or oysters and have never tried them. I was nervous when I had squid, so I only took a small taste at first. When I didn’t swell up, I kept eating them. I have had imitation crap meat which has not caused any issues.
Debbe, there is nothing like fresh fish. It always tastes good. Oven baked is often good too. I have just never had much grease when I pan fry. The butter is just enough to flavor it. I think I could could pan fry shoe leather in butter and it would be good.
Terrie the Increasingly-Skimpily-Clad Housekeeper was wearing cut-off jeans which were short but not as short as the shorts she wore last time. However, they were also “low riders”. Black lace panties, if anyone is wondering, or even if you are not. (See “bending over facing away” in my comment above.)
She was wearing a loose V-necked top today, rather than a tight t-shirt. I’ll have to ask Jackie if one of the bras she gave her is orange and plunging and creates fairly spectacular cleavage. (See “bending forward facing” in my comment above.)
Update: Jackie says “No”, so Terrie obviously likes fetching lingerie as well.
Sea food? Not many types of fish, no clams, no lobster, no crab. Yes to all kinds of shrimp, and scallops. Just have had so little really good sea food I always expect the worst. Scared of small bones in fish. Will occasionally give in to Long John Silvers, but really consider it a grease pit. Captain D’s is a little better because of wider choice of breading, and they do a little better on baked fish.
At salon having pedicure manicure. My manicurist is beautiful mainland Chinese and she is Ghost fan too. I am trying to convince him to get a massage if nothing else. She is so good, does my facials too.
I am feeling really great and little pain. I get off walker next week probably. Go to cane.
emb… I have the crustacean allergy. Fish and mollusks are fine. I have never done any research but I have wondered if there is any connection between the allergy and the sex of a person (Ghost, get your mind out of the gutter!). Several female members of my close extended family have the allergy but none of the males. Odd….
You can develop late in life as my late husband did. He never lost it. I developed in my 30s but no longer have.
Well Galliglo, I have the allergy, but I’m not sure if I want to talk about sex on this blog. I guess that is the way I was brought up! 😛
Gal, sex and seafood have always gone together well for me. 😉 And yes, “amen” to seafood from the Gulf of Mexico. Fried. Except shrimp, which I, slightly, prefer boiled.
Sushi may not be as popular overall in the Village as it is with me. So I will symply tell you the fargone story about the man who walked into a pet store and ate $1200 worth of tropical fish before he realized it was not a sushi buffet.
Will reserve comment on sex and A&J blog, but following through on some URLs has been interesting.
A colleague of the female persuasion* has severe crustacean allergy, has no trouble w/ true vertebrate fish [which, BTW, ‘krab’ is], and won’t try mollusk / fear some chemical affinities to arthropods might trigger the allergy. [Crustacea is a class w/in phylum Arthropoda; you’d think speelczech would know two such diverse invert taxa].
*My esteemed and more than attractive successor, and principal flute in the BSO. To my knowledge, she’s had it forever, and pretty sure not to try it when she ages. One can live w/o shrimp and oysters, though I’m glad I don’t have to.
Peace,
Since one of Jimmys main themes in Arlo and Janis is sex between his two main characters why is it only Ghost and I seem to enjoy it or acknowledge it?