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Nebe
02-22-2013, 08:09 PM
Don't throw em back.

Mild in Taste, Elegant in Look, Skate Joins the A-List - New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/26/dining/mild-in-taste-elegant-in-look-skate-joins-the-a-list.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm)

Guppy
02-23-2013, 07:07 AM
Don't throw em back.


Sure, OK I won't,, where do I send them? :devil2:

I applaud the glass on the Block,,, nice job
Gup

PRBuzz
02-23-2013, 07:53 AM
That article is from 1998, that fad is way over! Now they like dogfish. :)
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Nebe
02-23-2013, 08:31 AM
Thanks Guppy :)

Buzz.. This might be true. I saw skate at the store yesterday and it got me thinking about them. Next time I see it, I will buy it and see if I can't do it justice. I hear it tastes a lot like scallops.
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RickBomba
02-23-2013, 08:56 AM
We tried to sell it in an Italian fine dining place at the Cape in 1995. Couldn't move it. It really does taste good. The only fish that gets more tender the more that you cook it.
The only hard part is getting the skin off the wings. It's an acquired talent.

Nebe
02-23-2013, 08:59 AM
The place that I found them yesterday had skinned them. I saw them, then saw the sea scallops and went with the scallops... Next time I will buy the skate.
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thefishingfreak
02-23-2013, 09:44 AM
Skate wings are up around 1.80 a pound to the boat, that's better than pollack most times
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iamskippy
02-23-2013, 09:55 AM
That article is from 1998, that fad is way over! Now they like dogfish. :)
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and Buzzy knows a thing or 20 about doggies! :devil2:

Nebe
02-23-2013, 09:56 AM
Hehehe
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chefchris401
02-23-2013, 10:06 AM
Nebe, skate is delicious if handled right and cleaned the right way.

It gets a bad wrap for al the dealers that tried to pass it off as real scallops.

Lots of ways to cook it.

The other fish that is absolutely delicious is sea robin.

When I worked in montauk we would get giant ones, the meat is so tasty and had a great texture.
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Nebe
02-23-2013, 10:18 AM
Sea Robbin tail ??
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Goose
02-23-2013, 10:26 AM
Growing up we'd always cut the wings off and bring'um home, even buy them fresh off the boat at sakonnet pt for cheap money. They where prepared like any other fish...crunchy cartilage makes them uniquely delicious. You figure... years from now the majority of the population will realize that the poor man scrap's(also know as lobster bait) are just as good , just not as fun to catch

slow eddie
02-23-2013, 10:48 AM
poor mans scallop.. grind out a 2"pipe inside and out till it will cut both ways. skin skate. pound the pipe on the skate wings. eurika, instant scallops.
oldy, but a goodie....

chefchris401
02-23-2013, 11:30 AM
Yeah sea robin tails are amazing
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iamskippy
02-23-2013, 02:46 PM
ZOMG i want fresh seafood so bad now...... come on spring!