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Yeah, I'm a budding pescetarian - I'd eat seafood for my main protein intake if I could afford it every time. Grew up in the Mid-Atlantic so my summer job as a kid was with a net and chicken neck tied to a string, catching blue crabs all day.
We eat plenty of shrimp and a decent amount of fish. I rarely get lobster because of the cost (rather have sushi for the same price point) and almost never get good blue crabs - wife won't clean them and daughter calls them sea spiders. I haven't had a good softshell in a long, long time...
My stepdad was a commercial fisherman at one point so I've eaten about anything that comes out of the water. He made me learn to fillet fish on dead minnows - "If you can filet that, you can dress out any fish anywhere" kinda thing.
We eat plenty of shrimp and a decent amount of fish. I rarely get lobster because of the cost (rather have sushi for the same price point) and almost never get good blue crabs - wife won't clean them and daughter calls them sea spiders. I haven't had a good softshell in a long, long time...
My stepdad was a commercial fisherman at one point so I've eaten about anything that comes out of the water. He made me learn to fillet fish on dead minnows - "If you can filet that, you can dress out any fish anywhere" kinda thing.
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Ban that guy! Guinness is definitely not my favorite, but I appreciate the work they put into creating such a unique beer. Favorite brit beer is Newcastle. That one is a crowd favorite as well, so keep a six pack in the garage fridge for when you have company over.
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I even like the way fresh fish makes me feel after I eat it; an explosion of vital nutrients and fats. Deep water fish like salmon and shallow water fish like I grew up with in MD seems like the fuel our 12,000+ year old bodies were designed to consume.
Now only if I can get the kids not to stare at me when we are out and I order anchovies on my pizza.
Same here. Newcastle Brown Ale is my second favorite beer after Guinness Stout.
I don't really like Lager, or Pilsner, or most ales. But a good Stout, Brown Ale or Porter... that's a real beer.
Wait, I do like bottled Corona with a lime on a hot summer day. So there's a good exception to my rule.
I don't really like Lager, or Pilsner, or most ales. But a good Stout, Brown Ale or Porter... that's a real beer.
Wait, I do like bottled Corona with a lime on a hot summer day. So there's a good exception to my rule.
You basically moved up 2-3 ticks on my internal coolness scale :-)
I even like the way fresh fish makes me feel after I eat it; an explosion of vital nutrients and fats. Deep water fish like salmon and shallow water fish like I grew up with in MD seems like the fuel our 12,000+ year old bodies were designed to consume.
Now only if I can get the kids not to stare at me when we are out and I order anchovies on my pizza.
I even like the way fresh fish makes me feel after I eat it; an explosion of vital nutrients and fats. Deep water fish like salmon and shallow water fish like I grew up with in MD seems like the fuel our 12,000+ year old bodies were designed to consume.
Now only if I can get the kids not to stare at me when we are out and I order anchovies on my pizza.
I've been traveling overnight so much for my job to Greenville SC or Myrtle Beach SC that I've got favorite sushi restaurants in each - if I'm expensing dinner I ain't eating Cracker Barrel. And here in Summerville (Charleston) we have a favorite hole-in-the-wall sushi joint - like 8 tables. That's become our go-to since most restaurants here on Friday or the weekend have a 2-hour wait - but not this one. Thankfully they make their rent by take-out orders so I'm not too worried they'll fold.
Cracker Barrel 
Did you know their NY Strip Steak dinner has 4,900 milligrams of sodium. That's not a type-o.
Holy freaking crap. My intake of sodium is less than that for an entire week.
Then again, that Lobster Florentine I had Saturday night was no lightweight. I mean, a guy's gotta enjoy dinner once in a while. But if I'm going to throw out the rule book for a good dinner, it sure as heck isn't going to be for Cracker Barrel.
Did you know their NY Strip Steak dinner has 4,900 milligrams of sodium. That's not a type-o.Holy freaking crap. My intake of sodium is less than that for an entire week.
Then again, that Lobster Florentine I had Saturday night was no lightweight. I mean, a guy's gotta enjoy dinner once in a while. But if I'm going to throw out the rule book for a good dinner, it sure as heck isn't going to be for Cracker Barrel.
Last time on a road trip we hit up a cracker barrel in the middle of nowhere since it wasn't in the 'may possibly cause montezuma's revenge' territory.
Pretty sure that was my *caloric* content for the week - sodium too. Glad my wife drove afterwards because I went straight to food-coma.
I like my lobster like I like my women - covered with butter with a little Wye River on top. (it's like Old Bay but hyperlocal to the delmarva peninsula and hotter than OB)
//Don't spend too much time parsing that sentence - it's a joke.
Pretty sure that was my *caloric* content for the week - sodium too. Glad my wife drove afterwards because I went straight to food-coma.
I like my lobster like I like my women - covered with butter with a little Wye River on top. (it's like Old Bay but hyperlocal to the delmarva peninsula and hotter than OB)
//Don't spend too much time parsing that sentence - it's a joke.
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Same here. Newcastle Brown Ale is my second favorite beer after Guinness Stout.
I don't really like Lager, or Pilsner, or most ales. But a good Stout, Brown Ale or Porter... that's a real beer.
Wait, I do like bottled Corona with a lime on a hot summer day. So there's a good exception to my rule.
I don't really like Lager, or Pilsner, or most ales. But a good Stout, Brown Ale or Porter... that's a real beer.
Wait, I do like bottled Corona with a lime on a hot summer day. So there's a good exception to my rule.
From Wikipedia (but from my memory, pretty accurate for the regional version):Okonomiyaki in the Kansai or Osaka style is the predominant version of the dish, found throughout most of Japan. The batter is made of flour, grated nagaimo (a long type of yam), dashi or water, eggs, shredded cabbage, and usually contains other ingredients such as green onion, meat (usually thinly sliced pork belly or American bacon), octopus, squid, shrimp, vegetables, konjac, mochi, or cheese.[1][8][14]
It is sometimes compared to an omelette or a pancake and is sometimes referred to as a "Japanese pizza" or "Osaka soul food".[14][9][15][16] The dish can be prepared in advance, allowing customers to use a teppan or special hotplates to fry after mixing the ingredients. They may also have a diner-style counter where the cook prepares the dish in front of the customers.[17]
It is prepared much like a pancake. The batter and other ingredients are pan-fried on both sides on a teppan using metal spatulas that are later used to cut the dish when it has finished cooking. Cooked okonomiyaki is topped with ingredients that include okonomiyaki sauce (made with Worcestershire sauce), aonori (seaweed flakes), katsuobushi (bonito flakes), Japanese mayonnaise, and pickled ginger (beni shōga).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okonomiyaki
Something I found interesting: While I took 4 years of collegiate Japanese here in the US, when I went for study abroad in '05 I did more intensive language classes. Going back for USAFR to the Tokyo area, folks told me I had a Kansai-ben - basically, a southern Japanese accent. Most folks I interacted with assumed I was a JET teacher since I didn't look or act like a typical GI in Japan.
It is sometimes compared to an omelette or a pancake and is sometimes referred to as a "Japanese pizza" or "Osaka soul food".[14][9][15][16] The dish can be prepared in advance, allowing customers to use a teppan or special hotplates to fry after mixing the ingredients. They may also have a diner-style counter where the cook prepares the dish in front of the customers.[17]
It is prepared much like a pancake. The batter and other ingredients are pan-fried on both sides on a teppan using metal spatulas that are later used to cut the dish when it has finished cooking. Cooked okonomiyaki is topped with ingredients that include okonomiyaki sauce (made with Worcestershire sauce), aonori (seaweed flakes), katsuobushi (bonito flakes), Japanese mayonnaise, and pickled ginger (beni shōga).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okonomiyaki
Something I found interesting: While I took 4 years of collegiate Japanese here in the US, when I went for study abroad in '05 I did more intensive language classes. Going back for USAFR to the Tokyo area, folks told me I had a Kansai-ben - basically, a southern Japanese accent. Most folks I interacted with assumed I was a JET teacher since I didn't look or act like a typical GI in Japan.
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From Wikipedia (but from my memory, pretty accurate for the regional version):Okonomiyaki in the Kansai or Osaka style is the predominant version of the dish, found throughout most of Japan. The batter is made of flour, grated nagaimo (a long type of yam), dashi or water, eggs, shredded cabbage, and usually contains other ingredients such as green onion, meat (usually thinly sliced pork belly or American bacon), octopus, squid, shrimp, vegetables, konjac, mochi, or cheese.[1][8][14]
It is sometimes compared to an omelette or a pancake and is sometimes referred to as a "Japanese pizza" or "Osaka soul food".[14][9][15][16] The dish can be prepared in advance, allowing customers to use a teppan or special hotplates to fry after mixing the ingredients. They may also have a diner-style counter where the cook prepares the dish in front of the customers.[17]
It is prepared much like a pancake. The batter and other ingredients are pan-fried on both sides on a teppan using metal spatulas that are later used to cut the dish when it has finished cooking. Cooked okonomiyaki is topped with ingredients that include okonomiyaki sauce (made with Worcestershire sauce), aonori (seaweed flakes), katsuobushi (bonito flakes), Japanese mayonnaise, and pickled ginger (beni shōga).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okonomiyaki
Something I found interesting: While I took 4 years of collegiate Japanese here in the US, when I went for study abroad in '05 I did more intensive language classes. Going back for USAFR to the Tokyo area, folks told me I had a Kansai-ben - basically, a southern Japanese accent. Most folks I interacted with assumed I was a JET teacher since I didn't look or act like a typical GI in Japan.
It is sometimes compared to an omelette or a pancake and is sometimes referred to as a "Japanese pizza" or "Osaka soul food".[14][9][15][16] The dish can be prepared in advance, allowing customers to use a teppan or special hotplates to fry after mixing the ingredients. They may also have a diner-style counter where the cook prepares the dish in front of the customers.[17]
It is prepared much like a pancake. The batter and other ingredients are pan-fried on both sides on a teppan using metal spatulas that are later used to cut the dish when it has finished cooking. Cooked okonomiyaki is topped with ingredients that include okonomiyaki sauce (made with Worcestershire sauce), aonori (seaweed flakes), katsuobushi (bonito flakes), Japanese mayonnaise, and pickled ginger (beni shōga).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okonomiyaki
Something I found interesting: While I took 4 years of collegiate Japanese here in the US, when I went for study abroad in '05 I did more intensive language classes. Going back for USAFR to the Tokyo area, folks told me I had a Kansai-ben - basically, a southern Japanese accent. Most folks I interacted with assumed I was a JET teacher since I didn't look or act like a typical GI in Japan.
Also, I may have found my partner for the JDM import business I want to put together when I retire :-) Streamline the process of selling into CA (40M people strong) using LLCs setup in Montana. Jay Leno is also trying to get a bill on the ballot called SB 712 which proposes an exemption from California's smog check requirements for collector vehicles that are 35 model years or older. Gotta love that guy.
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