Fresh Halibut

Re:Fresh Halibut (joerogo)

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:54:40 GMT

Tony5885

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Me Two! If it wasn't for Spam, this site would starve!

Re:Fresh Halibut (mayor al)

Sun, 08 May 2011 11:18:18 GMT

Janet still has a 'life-goal' of a Halibut fishing expedition to Alaska. I don't know if we can ever get back there. But she sure wants to try, so I will keep the plans near the top of the 'to-do' list.

Re:Fresh Halibut (Michael Hoffman)

Sun, 08 May 2011 00:00:20 GMT

Yes Ma'am.

Re:Fresh Halibut (lleechef)

Sat, 07 May 2011 23:55:52 GMT

Stick to the compasses......you'll have better luck with the halibut. Those fish are not partial to peaks.

Re:Fresh Halibut (Michael Hoffman)

Sat, 07 May 2011 23:13:41 GMT

Hey, I'm a Coast Guard licensed unlimited skipper. I know compasses and peaks

Re:Fresh Halibut (lleechef)

Sat, 07 May 2011 23:09:57 GMT

Talk to Bushie. He's the expert on crazy compasses and twin peaks!

Re:Fresh Halibut (Michael Hoffman)

Sat, 07 May 2011 22:02:36 GMT

Well, you see there are these twin peaks that we always used as markers for heading back to the harbor after a day of fishing. As you probably know, sometimes in the northern lattitudes compasses can go a little crazy.

Re:Fresh Halibut (lleechef)

Sat, 07 May 2011 21:59:08 GMT

Thank you agnesrob for the welcome back. I'm very glad to be back!
As for Mr. Hoffman and The Mayor, well, they seem to be somewhat distracted for some strange reason. Something to do with dogs and Twin Peaks....I dunno.......I thought we were talking about halibut here!

Re:Fresh Halibut (agnesrob)

Fri, 06 May 2011 19:52:16 GMT

Lleechef, Welcome back. When I first joined you posted often and then disapeared. Glad to see you return!!

Re:Fresh Halibut (Michael Hoffman)

Fri, 06 May 2011 17:08:10 GMT

Puppy. I mant puppy. Now I'll bring lleechef's wrath down upon me. And I can't imagine what else you might have thought I was describing.

Re:Fresh Halibut (mayor al)

Fri, 06 May 2011 16:54:34 GMT

MH,
Puppies? we only had McDuff at that time. We got Demi later that year ! Oh, perhaps the K-9's weren't what you were describing?
Hot Dog Empire, Reprobate is one of the nicer things that OLD FART in Ohio calls me. B U T , he is older than me, so we cut him some slack when he goes over the edge !!

Re:Fresh Halibut (Hot Dog Empire)

Fri, 06 May 2011 16:30:31 GMT

Michael Hoffman

you old reprobate.

LOL! wow, I have not heard that word in years! Good Stuff

Re:Fresh Halibut (Michael Hoffman)

Fri, 06 May 2011 10:24:29 GMT

No fair! That was a great shot of those puppies. But I'm glad you're back and good, you old reprobate.

Re:Fresh Halibut (mayor al)

Fri, 06 May 2011 05:42:34 GMT

89 MH.
The Photo in question is filed in the 'Greatest Roadfood Personalities' folder on my desktop. It is a classic and will remain in the dusty files as far as I am concerned.
Some years back, 1988 or so, I caught a 47 lber in Salas Puedas Bay near Ensenada, Baja del Norte. One of the deckhands fillet it for me into some wonderful 'steaks' . That is only only Halibut "keeper" I have ever caught.

A quick side note. All is well. The Doc says he thinks he got it "ALL". Home safely.

Re:Fresh Halibut (Michael Hoffman)

Wed, 04 May 2011 23:08:32 GMT

That halibut is lovely to look at, but ... .

At the Giant Eagle supermarket here it was $19.99. That's a drop from $22.99 about two weeks ago.

Re:Fresh Halibut (lleechef)

Wed, 04 May 2011 22:35:27 GMT

Thank you buffetbuster!

And Mr. Hoffman you will need to talk to the mayor about that Twin Peaks pic. Hopefully he lost it. I'm sure y'all would rather look at that lovely halibut above.

It was $18.99 in our local market yesterday and it did not look pristine.

Re:Fresh Halibut (Michael Hoffman)

Wed, 04 May 2011 10:08:51 GMT

I, for one, was hoping for the Twin Peaks photo.

Re:Fresh Halibut (buffetbuster)

Wed, 04 May 2011 10:01:15 GMT

Welcome back lleechef!!!! You were greatly missed!

Re:Fresh Halibut (lleechef)

Wed, 04 May 2011 09:41:00 GMT

Thanks Mr. Hoffman, Mayor and Sundancer. Nice to be back. Mr. Mayor, I thought you promised not to show that pic.....no, I guess it was the one of me patting the pooches, the Twin Peaks one.

Anyway, after all the fishing I've done I have to say that catching a halibut is the best. You can pretty much tell where the salmon and trout are but those darned halibut are lying on the ocean floor, at least 200 ft. down. You have to have a lot of patience (and a lot of fuel as you tend to go farther and farther out in search thereof) but it pays off in the end if you actually get one. We would go back to the dock in Whittier, fillet it, pack it in the cooler, drive home and fire up the grill. Big slabs of grilled 'but with a little tomato-basil beurre blanc sauce and you think you died and went to heaven.

Re:Fresh Halibut (Sundancer7)

Wed, 04 May 2011 07:06:02 GMT

Welcome back chef Lisa. We all look forward to your post of great culinary skills.
If anyone knows how to prepare Halibut, I am sure that it is you.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

Re:Fresh Halibut (mayor al)

Wed, 04 May 2011 05:20:23 GMT

Yeah Lisa, Welcome back. Nice to read your messages again.
We recall our day with you on the water. No luck fishing, but I will not forget you working that little one-burner stove in the boat-cabin making a great meal for all of us.
Here's the lunch we enjoyed at the Seaview Cafe in Hope, Alaska with Lisa a few years ago.

And here she is working hard in the tiny cabin of her boat.

Re:Fresh Halibut (Michael Hoffman)

Wed, 04 May 2011 02:48:17 GMT

That's about the way I figure the cost of venison. When you add in everything, including the medical bills for the back after you've dragged your deer two miles out of the woods, not to mention all the other costs of a hunt and you're talking about $80-$100 a pound. I know walleye costs me at least $40 a pound, and salmon and steelhead -- you don't want to know.

By the way, welcome back lleechef.

Re:Fresh Halibut (lleechef)

Wed, 04 May 2011 00:41:24 GMT

We caught quite a few halibut on our boat (no luck with the Mayor and Jan when they went out with us) in Prince William Sound. Sometimes it was a matter of hours that we caught the fish and it wound up on the grill. It was a gastronomic delight. My friends used to say, "you're so lucky, it's $8.99 at the market". Right. Figure in the cost of the boat, the insurance, the dock fees, the FUEL, the gear, the bait, etc.......we figured that fish cost us somewhere around $65.00/lb. But who cared?! We had fun and we caught fish and it was delicious.

Re:Fresh Halibut (pnwchef)

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:58:47 GMT

here are a few pictures of the Halibut half............

Re:Fresh Halibut (Foodbme)

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:44:24 GMT

We can get good Halibut here ON SALE for $18.99 a # @ AJ's Fine Foods. http://www.ajsfinefoods.com/pdf/WeeklyAd.pdf

Re:Fresh Halibut (BelleReve)

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:35:05 GMT

Our local paper's food ads came out two days ago with halibut advertised as $5.99, I'm in shock, get to the store, there's two packages with 3 fillets in them each, about 4"x6", 1/2" thick, but the package is labeled $23.95 a pound. So I say to the guy behind the counter, will they adjust the price at the register? He never cracked a smile, then informs me it's $5.99 a fillet.

Re:Fresh Halibut (pnwchef)

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:35:10 GMT

GCD1962

I buy all my Halibut (and other fish items) from suppliers in Alaska. The Halibut goes from the boat, to process, to the freezer so it's really more fresh than buying fresh somewhere else. I keep it in the freezer for over a year at times and it's still perfect. For Halibut and King Salmon I purchase from ask for Dick, super guy to work with.

That's not really a bad price for the 10lb package. I figure after knocking down the Halibut tail half, I got about 8lbs from a 10lb half, making it a 80% yield, 20% waste. the last time I bought a half a Halibut was two years ago. I told the Fish Monger we ate the last piece of his fish two months ago, making the last few pieces frozen for 20 months. I told my wife not to expect much, I would have to check out the Filet after it thawed, we were both impressed with the quality of a 20 month frozen fish filet. I will be making the family fresh batter dipped Halibut today from some small end and scrap pieces. the taste of the fresh Halibut does not come a close to frozen, the taste of the fresh is fantastic....................PNWC

Re:Fresh Halibut (GCD1962)

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:49:57 GMT

I buy all my Halibut (and other fish items) from suppliers in Alaska. The Halibut goes from the boat, to process, to the freezer so it's really more fresh than buying fresh somewhere else. I keep it in the freezer for over a year at times and it's still perfect. For Halibut and King Salmon I purchase from http://www.alaskacannery.com/ ask for Dick, super guy to work with.

Re:Fresh Halibut (pnwchef)

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:06:06 GMT

mayor al

We looked at, but didn't buy the 2 lb package of Halibut at Costco last weekend....$29.95. Amazing how the price has climbed over the winter.

Al, it may be good, but it's not $29.95 good. The more I read this, the more I think I should order another 10 lbs. I could not believe, I ate the last piece of Halibut I bought two years ago, a few weeks ago. The Halibut was just as good as if I bought it a month ago and froze it. I blackened it and served it Veracruz style..................PNWCHEF

Re:Fresh Halibut (mayor al)

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:13:57 GMT

We looked at, but didn't buy the 2 lb package of Halibut at Costco last weekend....$29.95. Amazing how the price has climbed over the winter.