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Re: How I cook Stripers
Posted By: B.K. In Response To: Re: How I cook Stripers (jlmann)
Date: Monday, 10-17-11, at 2:33 p.m.
As a transplanted Georgia boy, I have to tell you that Scuppernongs (pronounced "scupanon") are native grapes that grow wild throughout the Southeast, and are one of the reasons that Georgia was settled by Oglethorpe-he mistakenly thought they would rival the French and Spanish wine trade-boy, was he wrong! They are delicious to eat, but have a very thick skin, and make a syrupy sweet wine. Scuppernongs are green often with vertical golden stripes, and are distinguished from Muscadines, another wild grape, which are dark blue-black, and even sweeter.
Stripers (Rockfish, here in Baltimore, where they are the King of Gamefish) are treated with respect: my favorite way to prepare them is to roast them whole- clean and scale, head and tail on (the cheeks and eye sockets are delicious!), stuff cavity with paper thin slices of lemon, raw onion, fresh thyme and salt& pepper, lay atop a layer of thin sliced potatoes, slather with butter and a little white wine, roast in a hot oven until just before flesh flakes. Sheer gastronomic heaven!
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