Canned crab, sardines, sprats

[+ friendofsheila]

Times being hard, I take what help I can get, when it crosses my path.

 

Today I found a bag of canned food at the curb, none expired:

 

1 - clams

1 - crab meat

1 - sardines in lemon mustard sauce

2 - sardines in harissa sauce (ingredients says red pepper)

2 - smoked sprats

 

Not a bad haul for free, but I'm not familiar with these kinds of foods. (The closest things I ever ate growing up were tuna sandwiches, tuna casserole and fish sticks.)

 

The clams I think I can put in my spaghetti sauce. The rest I'm unsure how to use.

 

My recipe books mostly talk about adding mayo and making sandwich spread. I'd rather have something a little more like hot, dinner food.

 

Any suggestions? (Keeping in mind I know how to cook, and already know how to use a search engine to find recipes)

[+ Truereview]

Well, I'm not a cook, but I could always make good tacos, quiche, and omelettes with pretty much anything. Learned that during lean times in graduate school. I once surprised my college roommates with a Sweetbreads quiche. They loved it and they still have no idea what they scarfed down.

 

Once you put a red or green sauce on tacos, you can pass anything as the filling. Corn tortillas are always a less expensive option than flour tortillas. They also last longer and are more filling.

 

Thinking of ya, TR.

[seaboy4hire]

Times being hard, I take what help I can get, when it crosses my path.

 

Today I found a bag of canned food at the curb, none expired:

 

1 - clams

1 - crab meat

1 - sardines in lemon mustard sauce

2 - sardines in harissa sauce (ingredients says red pepper)

2 - smoked sprats

 

Not a bad haul for free, but I'm not familiar with these kinds of foods. (The closest things I ever ate growing up were tuna sandwiches, tuna casserole and fish sticks.)

 

The clams I think I can put in my spaghetti sauce. The rest I'm unsure how to use.

 

My recipe books mostly talk about adding mayo and making sandwich spread. I'd rather have something a little more like hot, dinner food.

 

Any suggestions? (Keeping in mind I know how to cook, and already know how to use a search engine to find recipes)

 

Crab Rangoon

 

Sardines on saltine crackers

 

Clams in pasta sauce or soup

 

Spats wtf is that?

 

Hugs,

Greg

[mike carey]

Crab meat would go well in scrambled eggs. Another idea for it would be to use it with a couple of handfuls of wilted rocket with lemon juice to use to go with linguine.

 

Greg, sprats [edited] are little fish.

[Kenny]

Spats are canvas shoe coverings. They are delicious sautéed in a bit of butter, white wine and shallots. Charlie Chaplin said so.

[seaboy4hire]

Spats are canvas shoe coverings. They are delicious sautéed in a bit of butter, white wine and shallots. Charlie Chaplin said so.

 

If the fish isn't bigger than my pinky it goes no where near my plate. The size of my fish is where I become a size queen.

 

Hugs,

Greg

[BabyBoomer]

 

Spats wtf is that?

 

Hugs,

Greg

 

 

Greg, spats are little fish.

 

It's SPRATS.

 

~ Boomer ~

[mike carey]

It's SPRATS

I know, typo!

[rvwnsd]

Sardines are also good on wheat crackers. I would imagine that sprats would be good too.

[+ glennnn]

Spats are canvas shoe coverings. They are delicious sautéed in a bit of butter, white wine and shallots. Charlie Chaplin said so.

 

OMG You made me actually laugh out loud, really loudly, too. I mean guffawing!! and now all the people at Starbucks are staring. One wants to know what is soo funny and he is cute, too. Shall I go for it?

[+ WmClarke]

OMG You made me actually laugh out loud, really loudly, too. I mean guffawing!! and now all the people at Starbucks are staring. One wants to know what is soo funny and he is cute, too. Shall I go for it?

Yes. Go for it!

[Rudynate]

Sprats are supposed to be milder than sardines. I have tried to develop the habit of eating sardines because the fat is so healthful but I find them intolerably fishy.

[Bargara Leatherboy]

I eat sardines mashed up in apple cider vinegar and chili sauce. Eat them on toast or crackers.

[Tonyko]

I ONLY stopped to tie my sneaker and when I looked up my bag was GONE. Thank you very much hope you enjoy the crab!

[Rudynate]

I eat sardines mashed up in apple cider vinegar and chili sauce. Eat them on toast or crackers.

 

Good idea, the vinegar and chile sauce would cut the fishiness. I'll try it.

[+ friendofsheila]

Thanks to everyone. It sounds like the "anything goes" tacos and the Crab Rangoon are the closest I'm going to get to real dinner food.

[+ friendofsheila]

 

Once you put a red or green sauce on tacos, you can pass anything as the filling. Corn tortillas are always a less expensive option than flour tortillas. They also last longer and are more filling.

 

Thinking of ya, TR.

 

Thanks. The tacos sound like they'll work best with the sardines with harissa, since they are already spicy.

[+ Tygerscent]

Times being hard, I take what help I can get, when it crosses my path.

 

Today I found a bag of canned food at the curb, none expired:

 

1 - clams

1 - crab meat

1 - sardines in lemon mustard sauce

2 - sardines in harissa sauce (ingredients says red pepper)

2 - smoked sprats

 

Not a bad haul for free, but I'm not familiar with these kinds of foods. (The closest things I ever ate growing up were tuna sandwiches, tuna casserole and fish sticks.)

 

The clams I think I can put in my spaghetti sauce. The rest I'm unsure how to use.

 

My recipe books mostly talk about adding mayo and making sandwich spread. I'd rather have something a little more like hot, dinner food.

 

Any suggestions? (Keeping in mind I know how to cook, and already know how to use a search engine to find recipes)

Make a pizza with some of that and halved small cherry tomatoes or stir in with a little butter, white wine, pepper, garlic and angel hair pasta~

 

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[+ friendofsheila]

Make a pizza with some of that and halved small cherry tomatoes or stir in with a little butter, white wine, pepper, garlic and angel hair pasta~

 

 

My mind is boggling at the thought of sardine pizza. (I think I've only had sardines once before in my life, but I did have clam and mushroom pizza once, which was nice.)

 

If I can handle sardine/harissa tacos, I'll try the pizza next. Thanks, Tyger.

[+ friendofsheila]

My new best friend, the public library, got me a book that included some sardine recipes. When I read them, I zero'd in on a couple that had me make patties (grain, egg, onions, spices), some that were deep-fried.

 

(That was when I remembered: fat is the friend of people with little money! It makes a meal more filling.)

 

Still, it took me a bit to face up to the prospect of sardines turning into something I'd enjoy (my only experience with sardines were so fishy I never went back). I got brave this weekend and started.

 

The first can I opened was so smelly, but the second (the dill-mustard) was tolerable so I tasted it. It was close enough to tuna that I remembered a tuna burger recipe that I liked from a long time ago. I pulled that out and pulled it together. Boning those tiny little fishes were a pain, though.

 

After making it and pan-frying the four patties (from 2 cans of sardines plus 1 can of smoked sprats), my apartment smelled like a seaside grease-eteria.

 

But they went down pretty okay with a sort-of tartar sauce I made.

[+ friendofsheila]

Sprats are supposed to be milder than sardines. I have tried to develop the habit of eating sardines because the fat is so healthful but I find them intolerably fishy.

 

RudyNate, you might be able to handle the dill-mustard sardines, from Trader Joe's, that I had. It tasted a lot like tuna, but I did have to remove the bone.

[+ friendofsheila]

While times are better, I'm still not above grabbing hold of help when it floats by:

 

I found 2 jars of fish at the curb (again? Hmmm.)

 

http://www.manischewitzstore.com/assets/images/Manischewitz/Manischewitz/10086_MA_RedSod_Gfish_Jell_24z_SILO.jpg

and

 

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41w7hoIs8OL._SY300_QL70_.jpg

 

How do you eat these? Just microwave and serve with mashed potatoes?

[+ VeryHappyCustomer]

Chilled, with a dollop of horseradish.

[+ friendofsheila]

Chilled, with a dollop of horseradish.

 

Chilled fish?? Really?

[+ VeryHappyCustomer]

Really.

http://www.seriouseats.com/talk/2009/04/how-do-you-serve-gefilte-fish.html