Care For Some Smoked Lamprey?

[SmedIndy]

http://www.msnbc.com/news/773497.asp

Link to a story on an ancient cookbook recently released to the public that the nobles in England in the 1500's used.

Mmmm...pike and eel....mmmm.....

[poorme]

they probably went heavy on the seasonings since the meat would have been half rotten without refrigeration.

eel's not bad. problem is it's always sold live and I dont' have the nerve to kill it myself. can you imagine an eel squirming around your kitchen floor?

[Craig S.]

Good lord - if I have to eat chopped sparrow or gulls, you better believe I'm loading it down with cinnamon and saffron.

[spitball]

They're still eating some of that crap in England. Now they smother it in curry.
Want to try something sick?,,,,Kippers

[Rajah]

i've had eel. they use it in some kinds of sushi

[spitball]

Originally posted by Rajah
i've had eel. they use it in some kinds of sushi :makepuke:
I've had friends try to get me to eat eel.....yeah right.
Can I have an appetizer please? Yeah, I think I'll have the monkee brains. Blah!

[Duque]

Originally posted by spitball
:makepuke:
I've had friends try to get me to eat eel.....

Hey, tastes like chicken! How much worse can eel be than, say, calamari?

[SmedIndy]

You watch the Iron Chef, they cook with all kinds of oogy stuff. Crab brains...mmm....

[sweaver]

I refuse to eat sushi unless it's been properly cooked.....and I'll take my steak tartare well-done, please.

Hold the eel.

[SmedIndy]

Spoken like a true West Virginian.

In a Seinfeld-esque moment, I stopped dating someone because they liked their steak well-done and didn't let me order a medium or medium rare without making a face....

But I think I'd need my sparrows cooked pretty well...

[sweaver]

I generally order steak cooked medium. But the scientist in me insists on meats being cooked to a proper temperature. e. coli, you know.

[SmedIndy]

Originally posted by sweaver
I generally order steak cooked medium. But the scientist in me insists on meats being cooked to a proper temperature. e. coli, you know.

Sometimes science takes the fun (or danger) out of life...:p

It's like I learned to never ask rhetorical questions around my friend the engineer....

[spitball]

The subject matter of this thread begs the question.
How the hell did these people live without ice cream???!!!??? :)

[SmedIndy]

Originally posted by spitball
The subject matter of this thread begs the question.
How the hell did these people live without ice cream???!!!??? :)

Not for long....since the lifespan was much shorter....of course it may be the lamprey meat turning....

[Skip]

Originally posted by SmedIndy
But I think I'd need my sparrows cooked pretty well... I believe "laden" sparrows are just fine cooked rare.
Originally posted by sweaver
I generally order steak cooked medium. But the scientist in me insists on meats being cooked to a proper temperature. e. coli, you know. My understanding is that there is little danger for a properly cut steak (as opposed to ground beef).Originally posted by SmedIndy
It's like I learned to never ask rhetorical questions around my friend the engineer.... What choo talkin' about Willis??

(Noone better accuse me of wasted threads! You don't see too many three-in-one quotes).

[KCBOOMER]

This cookbook reads like an Iron Chef standard reference.

[spitball]

I keep thinking of The Big Book of English Smiles.

[gyb13]

Hmmm.....eel (unagi) is delicious....both as an ingredient in sushi or as its own dish (unajyu - literally, eel over rice). did i tell you i'm half-japanese?

[SmedIndy]

Originally posted by gyb13
did i tell you i'm half-japanese?

I didn't realize Jad Fair was a baseball fan!

[gyb13]

Originally posted by SmedIndy
I didn't realize Jad Fair was a baseball fan!
At least eels don't have alternative tentacles ;)

[Skip]

Can we kill this stupid (word of the day) thread? I've lost 15 pounds since it started. Oh ... never mind, keep it going about another week (weck) or two.