BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe

Subject: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: olddude
Date: 02 Aug 17 - 09:17 PM

My kids went halibut fishing in alaska and limited out, she sent me 45 lbs of filets, anyone have any good recipes for the fish.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: Deckman
Date: 02 Aug 17 - 09:34 PM

You bet I do. Simply fry it in a cast iron fry pan and drizzle "garlic butter" over it. For garlic butter, melt one cube of real butter, with just ONE clove of minced butter. Stir it ... and ... DO NOT over do the garlic. Simply wonderful. bob (deckman)nelson

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: olddude
Date: 02 Aug 17 - 10:47 PM

Thank bro

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Aug 17 - 10:57 PM

A friend of mine who spent a lot of time in Alaska came up with a great baked recipe - put the thick halibut steak into a baking pan (Pyrex is good) and put some thinly sliced onions on top, a little salt, pepper, sprinkle some dill, and spoon over several tablespoons of sour cream. Let it bake until the fish is done.

Personally, I like it on the charcoal grill with nothing but a little butter or oil and garlic to keep it moist. I used to get it fixed this way at a restaurant in Friday Harbor, WA (where they were serving fresh fish from the local fishermen).

And Bob's recipe sounds pretty darned good.

For any halibut to be excellent, the fish still needs to have the opalescent quality of extreme freshness.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: Deckman
Date: 02 Aug 17 - 11:13 PM

"opalescent quality of extreme freshness" ... I once knew a girl like that ... bad bad bob

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: olddude
Date: 02 Aug 17 - 11:36 PM

Lol my fish were alive yesterday as it was overnight shipped professionally by a seafood
OOutfit.. Does sound good baked also. I had some in a restaurant
In alaska
That Itthink was like
Bobs lloved it

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: olddude
Date: 02 Aug 17 - 11:44 PM

I have a freezer full of fresh salmon, I don't like salmon at all but my buddy who owns a bbq place smoked one for me with cajun spice. I admit it was
Good. My Mrs loves salmon hence I brought a bunch home but for me it's halibut oh yeah

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: Teribus
Date: 03 Aug 17 - 01:58 PM

Halibut Fillet with Avocado

Preheat oven to 350°F.
Cut halibut fillets into serving size pieces.
Lay the halibut single layer into a greased baking dish.
Melt the butter in a pan, add mushrooms and onions, and saute.
When the onions are tender, add the bread crumbs, salt, pepper, parsley, and celery salt and mix well.
Combine the egg and lemon juice in a dish and brush the fish with it.
Peel and slice the avocado and arrange over the fish.
Top with bread crumb mixture.
Sprinkle with cheese.
Bake for 35 minutes or until fish flakes easily when tested with fork.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 03 Aug 17 - 02:12 PM

Cue whole load of fish jokes. Our world renowned orchestra in Manchester is the Hallé. I always wanted to go and see the Hallé but it sounded fishy.

:D tG

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: David Carter (UK)
Date: 03 Aug 17 - 03:32 PM

Use this recipe.

And substitute the halibut for the snapper. Go easy on the tarragon, halibut has a more delicate flavour.

I am jealous, halibut costs a fortune in Britain.

Teribus' recipe sounds good too.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: DaveRo
Date: 03 Aug 17 - 04:15 PM

My wife sometimes cooks halibut pepper steaks. It's made like steak au poivre - complete with pouring cognac over it and setting it alight. You need a bottle of chilled white wine per person.

Haven't had it for a while: as David said it costs a fivetune in Britain.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: olddude
Date: 03 Aug 17 - 07:43 PM

Thanks folks, I wish you lived near by I wouldfix yyou up with some

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: Nick
Date: 04 Aug 17 - 07:01 AM

If you have a lot of it, could you perhaps smoke some of it?

Haven't had it for a long time but I think it's nice.

(I avoided commenting as to how you know whether a halibut has been good or bad, once dead they haven't got a lot to say for themselves? Perhaps I'm too judgemental)

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: olddude
Date: 04 Aug 17 - 10:39 AM

Lol perfect

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: Raggytash
Date: 04 Aug 17 - 11:50 AM

Sautee almonds in low salt butter, taking care not to burn the butter, remove the almonds add the fish and cook until it is almost cooked through, remove the fish put the almonds back in add a little white wine reduce,add a little cream and pour over the fish. Serve with new potatoes and asparagus

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Aug 17 - 12:58 PM

See the halibut and the sturgeon / being wiped out by detergent / fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly / but they don't last long if they try!

Also, instead of garlic, a large pinch of thyme, in the butter. Yum.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: Raggytash
Date: 04 Aug 17 - 01:09 PM

Terminus,s recipe sounds interesting, well worth a try. The only slight change I would make would be to cook the onions through and THEN add the mushrooms . .and use good mushrooms not the tasteless button mushrooms so often found in supermarkets

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: olddude
Date: 04 Aug 17 - 03:12 PM

All sounds wonderful, going to make some tonight

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: Teribus
Date: 04 Aug 17 - 08:20 PM

WOW Raggy what a concession!! Thought that it would have been obvious that onions take a little longer than mushrooms so they go in first.

Olddude you are indeed blessed living where you do - reasonably price Halibut but Copper River Salmon too - you have never tasted Salmon until you have tasted Salmon taken from the Copper River.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Aug 17 - 09:19 PM

I remarked last night but it didn't take - halibut is also very expensive in the US, even in the markets where it is caught. Chinook/King salmon is marvelous, but you'll also enjoy sockeye and it's a little less expensive. I buy salmon in a local market that flies it in fresh to my landlocked city. When people are shopping around and looking at the farm-raised artificially colored Atlantic salmon during the season for the fresh wild caught salmon, my advice to them is to skip the farmed fish, buy the best wild salmon their budget will allow, it will always taste better than the farmed and it's better to eat less of the really good fish and savor it more.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Aug 17 - 09:24 PM

I come from a Catholic family with five kids. My dad cooked halibut steak for us in the oven broiler on Fridays. It was edible, but very bland.
Haven't been able to look a halibut in the face since then. Are there ways to prepare it that actually taste good? I've stuck mostly with salmon and trout in my adult years, with occasional shark and swordfish. I like to pay about $6.99 a pound for fish, but that price is hard to find in the last 3 years or so. Farmed trout is a little cheaper, and I really like it.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: Deckman
Date: 04 Aug 17 - 10:17 PM

JOE ... next time you are up this way, we'll show you what REAL SALMON tastes like! Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Aug 17 - 10:58 PM

And while you're at it Bob, send him down to the Pike Place Market and to look around. Careful not to scare him with the geoducks. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: Deckman
Date: 04 Aug 17 - 11:19 PM

Geoducks are enough to scare any able bodied man! bad bad bob

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: David Carter (UK)
Date: 05 Aug 17 - 04:12 AM

Bought some yesterday, despite the price. Just pan fried it in olive oil, served with freshly dug potatoes, some green vegetables, and a Canary island Mojo Verde (coriander, garlic, cumin, vinegar and oil).

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: Johnny J
Date: 05 Aug 17 - 04:34 AM

Keep things simple.

Recipes are like music. Too much unnecessary decoration and ornaments (garnishes) can spoil the dish.

It can also make it less accessible to those with health issues. Some are allergic to certain thins while others, like myself, have to be careful what I eat due to digestion (Hopefully temporary) issues.

Having said that, for home cooking be as adventurous as you like as long as you confirm your guests and family's dietary needs. Restaurants and and over clever chefs, however, can be a menace. :-(

I usually just bake mine in the oven with a little butter on top..Garlic is fine. Generally, I'll cook or prepare vegetables etc separately. It's better for me to do things this way, at the moment.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: JHW
Date: 05 Aug 17 - 05:19 AM

Halalibut anyone?

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Aug 17 - 06:31 AM

Geoduck Song

Dig a duck, dig a duck, dig a gooeyduck
Dig a duck, dig a gooeyduyck, dig a duck a day...
(Fred Penner)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaFJV7czzDI

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: olddude
Date: 05 Aug 17 - 02:04 PM

Teribus, no kid lives in alaska, I just go up and limit out and camp.. Or she overnights fish. I like the copper river salmon smoked.. I like the fresh halibut more.. And rock fish are great also. Caught one and had it on the campfire with butter it was good... Great lake salmon that I catch all the time where I live is not good. So fishy ugh, I let them go or if someone wants them give it to them.. Wild alaska salmon.. Very good but still not my favorite.. Halibut yup.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: olddude
Date: 05 Aug 17 - 02:04 PM

I meant my kid lives in alaska, I don't

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: olddude
Date: 05 Aug 17 - 02:39 PM

I have lot of fish now I
Am aafter
A moose

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Aug 17 - 03:32 PM

Moose is quite delicious, but very lean. Keep some beef fat to mix in if you make sausage, etc.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: olddude
Date: 05 Aug 17 - 04:12 PM

Oh yes, love it

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: michaelr
Date: 05 Aug 17 - 06:12 PM

Made this recently and loved it. But dang, halibut is expensive!

Braised Halibut with Fennel and Tarragon


INGREDIENTS

4(6- to 8-ounce) skinless halibut fillets, ¾ to 1 inch thick
Salt and pepper
6 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 (10-ounce) fennel bulbs, stalks discarded, bulbs halved, cored, and sliced thin
4 shallots, halved and sliced thin
¾ cup dry white wine
1 teaspoon lemon juice, plus lemon wedges for serving
1 tablespoon minced fresh tarragon


INSTRUCTIONS
SERVES 4

We prefer to prepare this recipe with halibut, but a similar firm-fleshed white fish such as striped bass or sea bass that is between 3/4 and 1 inch thick can be substituted. To ensure that your fish cooks evenly, purchase fillets that are similarly shaped and uniformly thick.

1. Sprinkle fish with 1/2 teaspoon salt. Melt butter in 12-inch skillet over low heat. Place fish in skillet, skinned side up, increase heat to medium, and cook, shaking pan occasionally, until butter begins to brown (fish should not brown), 3 to 4 minutes. Using spatula, carefully transfer fish to large plate, raw side down.

2. Add fennel, shallots, and 1/2 teaspoon salt to skillet and cook, stirring frequently, until vegetables begin to soften, 2 to 4 minutes. Add wine and bring to gentle simmer. Place fish, raw side down, on top of vegetables. Cover skillet and cook, adjusting heat to maintain gentle simmer, until fish registers 135 to 140 degrees, 10 to 14 minutes. Remove skillet from heat and, using 2 spatulas, transfer fish and vegetables to serving platter or individual plates. Tent loosely with aluminum foil.

3. Return skillet to high heat and cook until sauce is thickened, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove pan from heat, stir in lemon juice, and season with salt and pepper to taste. Spoon sauce over fish and sprinkle with tarragon. Serve immediately with lemon wedges.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: olddude
Date: 05 Aug 17 - 08:58 PM

Mike sounds great

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Aug 17 - 11:01 PM

I miss the food threads that used to run years ago. Rick Fielding started some doozies - quite often prefaced by a description of a spectacular kitchen disaster from an early failed attempt.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: Teribus
Date: 06 Aug 17 - 05:40 AM

Moose, or Elg as it is known as over here, is superb - fortunately I've got loads of it and will be going for more in October, quota for the week is normally five animals and the landowner tells us which ones we can go after (i.e. Mature Bull, young Bull, Cow, one-and-a-half year old, or Calf).

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Aug 17 - 08:25 AM

Moose and elk are in the same "elk" family, but there are separate animals called moose (think Bullwinkle) versus elk (looks like a very large deer) in North America. Do you have the same distinction there?

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: Teribus
Date: 06 Aug 17 - 12:11 PM

ELG Acme NOT ELK


Elg - Alces alces

North American examples of the species is larger Alces Americanus(Same with the North American and European Bison). In Norway Moose is called ELG Alces Alces.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 06 Aug 17 - 07:49 PM

I'm not that adventurous with white fish but the recipe I saw Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall do on the telly (for a bunch of students who couldn't afford chippie fish and chips) has never let me down. It's always a bit of a bugger getting the exact timing exactly right so take my timing as an extreme approximation, depending on the thickness of the fish.

I've always done this with home-made oven chips, par-boiled salted spuds cut into wedges and put into an extremely hot oven on a baking tray with groundnut oil. When the spuds are within ten minutes of being done, turn the oven down to 190 and put the chips on to another tray. Put the fish on the now-vacant but oily chip tray, skin down. Season with a bit of salt and put into the oven for five minutes. Meanwhile, make a baste with a crushed garlic clove, lemon juice, freshly-ground black pepper, chopped fresh thyme and extra virgin olive oil.

After five minutes remove the fish and douse with the baste. Put back in the oven. It could be another three minutes, it could be seven. When you gently part the fish, the centre should be nice and white. It's a pain, but you have to keep checking. Another five minutes should easily see the fish done. The resultant fish and chips is nirvana when consume outdoors on a warm evening.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: olddude
Date: 07 Aug 17 - 12:30 PM

Steve I going to try that tonight... So far every recipe has been awesome

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: olddude
Date: 07 Aug 17 - 12:44 PM

My son in law is taking me for caribou also so hopefully we will have lots of fresh meat

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Aug 17 - 10:25 AM

I understood elg/elk, and I think you can understand that the words are so similar that they have a common root and convey something about the kind of animal they name. Interesting to see that there is an Old World version of the moose, a member of the elk family. Even if you call them elg.

I buy groceries from a local discount/salvage store that purchases items right at the sell-buy date from regular retail stores clearing them out. It's always quite a mix, lots of gourmet items and fancy yogurts, kefirs, cheeses, meats, etc. What can be frozen is and a few other things are repackaged into consumer-size packaging. Sometimes a vendor decides they just can't sell an item and though it is way before the sell-by date they take a loss and move it out. So every so often I find things like pickled herring for 25 cents on the dollar of the original cost. I loaded up on herring in wine sauce a couple of weeks ago. No cooking, no prep, I simply fork a few pieces out of the jar for a snack. These expire in a couple of months, but they'll be gone long before then.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 14 Aug 17 - 10:21 AM

the only good halibut is a dead one...

when you're a halibut, theres not much incentive to behave well and be a good halibut.

virtue has its own rewards, but not if you're a halibut. If you're a good halibut - people eat you.

Shocking!

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone have a good halibut recipe
From: olddude
Date: 15 Aug 17 - 11:26 PM

Steve, your recipe and Teribus recipe were superb. Heaven