hey

i got a good feed of tommies the other day and dont really know any good recipes, so if theres any master chefs in hear please if u can offer your tips

any help is appreciated

thanks david

best ive found with tommies is to soak them in salt water for a coupla hours then shallow fry them in real butter (not marg) and eat with a dash of lemmon and a little salt and pepper..

cant go wrong mate

best to be cooked the day you catch them. they dont store well.

im a big fan of floured then battered and fried. and add some season all spice to the flour, and also some spices to the batter mixture. i use the flour from the flour bag into the batter mixture.

Try melting some butter in a frying pan. Squeeze in some lemon juice & add & squish up a spoonfull of Capers. Fry breadcrumbed fillets in this .....Delicious !!!

If you have got a smoke box, smoked tommies are fantastic.

A mate of mine is famous for his crumbed tommy rolls.
Get your Tommy fillets and roll them in seasoned breadcrumbs,lightly fry them until golden ,then put them into a nice buttered roll with beetroot,lettuce,tomato, salt and pepper and some thousand island dressing.
Bloody beautiful!

piratepom wrote:


yea ive heard that there gr8 smoked but dont have a smoker, woud i be able to do them in a weber??

these all sound very tasty, so keep them coming.
i got about 4 meals worth so might try a few different recipes

cheers david

Cheap weber rip offs are perfect for smoking
They are useless for cooking a roast but great smokers
The real deal will also smoke well with some red gum or hickery
Smoked oysters are the tastiest little treats

I'm another who'll put my hand up for smoking them. Tommies are an oily fleshed fish, which smokes superbly, and there's not much better than enjoying a few smoked Tommies with a cold beer at the end of the day.

They're dead easy to smoke, it can be done in a webber or a cheap smoking box, and once you've tried em you will be coming back for more!

As well as the Tommies and oysters, also try smoking a bit of cheese as well.

Those Australian Herring just don't smoke up as well as the good ol' Tommy Ruffs do!

huge fan of smoking tommies!!!

one of the best snacks to munch on

thanks guys, supose a gas weber will be fine then to???

and were would i get the red gum or hickery???

all this talk is making me want to take them out the freezer now lol

re: smoking in a webber

light just 3 heat beads

find approximately a matchbox full of wood

to slow the burn down, wrap your wood of choice in foil (you dont need sawdust) and soak it in water for a few minutes

place the foiled wet wood on the heatbeads and cover

works well for chicken as well

i always smoke chicken wings like this before cooking (cooked because like my fat crunchy

i have even tried this with success in our oven. place the foiled wet wood over the lowest flame you can muster (my oven is vented to outside, dont try it if yours is not

craig