Roe

It's not the super high quality method but here's how I separate roe when I'm in a hurry. Take a large bowl and fill with water as hot as you can handle. Let it soak a minute. Then run hot tap water and massage the roe sac and lightly "brushing" off the individual eggs. They should fall off fairly easily once hot. Then once done switch tap water to room temp and run while cleaning out the small pieces of skin. I stir and add water and repeat. Then drain it well. Leave in colander or sieve over a bowl but cover it so it doesn't dry out. Don't worry if the eggs looked a little cooked. Left in frig overnight they will come back to normal color. Then season.

Crash, ya read in history stories how liver was the bomb.  Chunk and sauté, ect?

Crash, ya read in history stories how liver was the bomb.  Chunk and sauté, ect?

Sure. Also have read how fish liver is really good for you, I've just never prepared it. Fry it up in oil and serve when it stops bleeding?  Prepare it like ankimo?  Is it toxic?  Since this is a roe thread it bears mention that cabezon roe is toxic to humans and you should not eat it. What about lingcod liver?  Is there a dioxin concern?

Etc. Google isn't helpful. It seems to thing lingcod and cod are the same thing, and errybody wants to sell you cod liver capsules.

I've been gorging on bacon wrapped shad roe lately.  Mmmm mmmm good!!!

-Allen

I've been gorging on bacon wrapped shad roe lately.  Mmmm mmmm good!!!

-Allen

Bacon makes everything better.

I've been gorging on bacon wrapped shad roe lately.  Mmmm mmmm good!!!

-Allen

Is it that easy? Just wrap the roe in bacon?  I am curious because I want to get my kids into some fightin' fish and shad seem to be the one that has the most numbers to keep the youngest from getting bored.

I've been gorging on bacon wrapped shad roe lately.  Mmmm mmmm good!!!

-Allen

Is it that easy? Just wrap the roe in bacon?  I am curious because I want to get my kids into some fightin' fish and shad seem to be the one that has the most numbers to keep the youngest from getting bored.

Yup!

-Allen

Thanks.  Now the hard part-which bacon flavor.  I guess I will experiment.

Thanks.  Now the hard part-which bacon flavor.  I guess I will experiment.

I'm normally a plain thick cut or pepper thick cut bacon kind of guy, but for shad roe I bust out the applewood smoked.

-Allen

I met my wife over roe. Her first words to me were "don't throw that out". She was leaning over the fence in my backyard watching me clean a coho. I've never tossed out roe since.

In Alaska I have eaten salmon roe dredged in cornmeal and fried.

You take the whole skein, run it through some seasoned cornmeal and fry it like a fillet.

The texture is a bit odd, but the flavor is pretty good.

Salmon caviar is good eats too.  I am willing to try anything once.   Even ate sand shrimp earlier this year.  Was pretty good!

Yeah...the whole sand shrimp thing still gets you some REALLY funny looks!
I love telling people that one!

Uni!

Actually that is gonads!   

I've been gorging on bacon wrapped shad roe lately.  Mmmm mmmm good!!!

-Allen

The shad roe you brought to GS8 was my first. It was really good. Taste like oyster!

I tried salmon roe at a sushi place last year. It was disgusting...I feel like it wasn't fresh. Once the berries popped I felt a little green around the gills. I'm pretty open to trying new things but I couldn't stomach the taste. I would be willing to try it again if it were prepared some of the ways that I've read on here.

Halibut roe is awesome pan fried in some Zatarains. 

I shot a Ling last year that had a bunch of eggs in it...stir fried them with some eggs and they were pretty good...

Not as good as the Halibut though. 

And yeah, like Crash said, don't mess with cabbie roe...

Sincerely,

Jim