I have even let the kids catch the notorious Sail Catfish and we ate them prepared this way too! They are never thrown away by my family, they always call me to cook'em for them! Main key is "no bloodline!" I was born in Pensacola and grew up on the GOM. When I lived in Cape Hatteras and Virginia Bch, Va. people there didn't eat Mullet, but they all ate Bluefish. Mind you, they have some "big" Bluefish in the Atlantic. After living in that area, I learned to eat it also. I now live back down here in the Panhandle and I have to say that I can eat just about everything in the GOM. As far as the Bluefish, I fillet it, skin it, bone it out, split the fillet down the center and remove "all" of the bloodlinecompletely, don't even leave a spec of it. After rinsing the fillets, I take milk, fresh garlic and fresh lemon juice, black pepper ans salt. I mix all of that together, keeping in mind to make sure your seasonings and garlic are pretty heavy in it. I soak the fillets overnight, making sure they are completely submerged. I then make my breading with a 70% AP flour and 30% yellow corn meal, garlic powder, onion powder, Lawry's seasoning salt, Old Bay, salt and pepper. I put my breading into a double lined plastic bag and mix it all together, keeping in mind to have my seasonings pretty generous. I drain the milk mixture from the fillets that were soaking overnight. I take a few rew eggs and whisk them together. I pour this over the fillets and make sure they are all covered with the eggs. Then I heat up my grease and hope that the homemade potato salad, baked beans and huspuppies are ready to go! These fillets will go very quickly when they come out of the grease so I hope you catch a lot of them. They will be a big hit! Oh, don't forget to have fresh lomon wedges, cocktail and tarter sauce to go with them!
If someone tries this method, please drop me a mono and let me know how it turned out! I bet you'll love it!
Tight Lines!:hungry
If someone tries this method, please drop me a mono and let me know how it turned out! I bet you'll love it!
Tight Lines!:hungry