My Cousin came round this evening and brought round some Fresh oysters, Scallops, and prawns, my uncle who lives in Smokey bay gave him a STACK of closed Whopper oysters,

Size Of my Hand they were, and Meaty as, full,







So my cousin thought it would be nice to do a seafood cook off..
Did Scallops cooked in garlic and Butter






Oysters Kilpatric , and a prawn Salad in balsamic Vinegar..

Was Delish..

thats how i get my oysters too huge " non restaurant grade" oysters are the best!


got the shack at coffins and know a few of the workers

i got a sack of about 25 doz last time. got about 15 dozen left... cant wait for the next feed!!

Del wrote:


Beautiful del, that's Excellent ...Arnt they just Delish , I snuck a few raw with lemon too, Yummers... VB isn't into eating alot of seafood, he will have prawns, tasted the scallops and some squid, doesn't mind the smoked snapper..
But oysters he thinks there BIG BOOGERS
All the more for me

My Young Fella he is 6 he will EAT anything seafood, marinated mussels, oysters, prawns, fish, squid, even cockles Raw Oysters too, razor fish, I fight him for it when we get a catch

Ill go to the fridge and get a marinated mussel, and half me tub is gone Ill go, have u touched my tub of mussels, out comes the guilty face..

yeah i love my pickled seafood!

only thing i have eaten that i didint like was morten bay bugs. everything else eaten from the ocean ive devoured!

Del wrote:


Same... What didnt ya like aboot the morten Bay Bugs, used to get them in Queensy for round Xmas time ..Yer There a bit on the Plain side , BLOODY expensive to boot..

i caught them while working on the prawn trawlers.. can get them out off whyalla strangely enough

Naaa, There only found on the northern waters of Auss, U sure about that?

Del's right you do get them in the upper gulf. When I lived in Pt Broughton I did the occasional trip out on the crab boat and they were a by-catch,not often but they did get em.

cheers
snapps

Wow, well you learn summit new each day..The spanner crabs I wasn't to keen on..

morten bay bugs
everytime the prawn trawlers used to tie up in the basin, we would head over there in the work ute, and buy the prawns straight from them
they always had mornten bay bugs as well...
so yeah they are caught around here for sure.
had either a choice of good prawns, r seconds, with missing tails or heads etc etc which were half the price.
fine by me.... it was all bait.
prawnies didnt mind seeling off the boat back then, as it was beer money for them
doesnt happene these days though
oh and im with kirk....
oysters look like a lugey
you got a stronger stumoch than my sandy...
i WOULD hurl it back up before i even got the taste of it..

You need that bag of cement Nev... same goes for Kirk...

Ohhh there delish, straight from the sea is even better , one time at smoky we were cleaning Razor fish, big whoppers, uncle had just come in from fishing and there was an oyster attached to a razor fish, so got it off opened it up, washed it, squeeze of lemon and straight down, Mmmm Yummers

rocknev wrote:


Them were the days, when you could fish there too, always caught pannies there, almost every time..

that snapper drop i told kirk about, but he hasnt found yet, has the BIGGEST razorfish ive seen... the heart of one was as big as my palm.
***careful though...they a popular hiding place for blue ring octopus***
my dad was cleaning some for WHITING BAIT, and a blue occy was in one of them

Were prolly gonna be heading out tommoz