Smoked
Fish
Cooking Time: 2 hours
Fresh fish such as Sailfish, Marlin or Kingfish
1 ½ cups of sugar
¼ cup of granulated garlic powder
1 gallon of water
Fillet fish and cut into pieces 6 inches long by 4 inches
wide by 1 inch thick. Soak in 1 ½ cups of sugar to ¼ cup
of granulated garlic powder to
1 gallon of water. Soak overnight and cook on P.D.Q. Add
hickory chips and cook for approximately 1 hour. Add more
chips and smoke one more hour. Remove and cool
Fish Dip
1 pound of smoked fish
¼ cup of chopped celery
¼ cup of chopped onion
1/3 cup of mayonnaise
Dash of Tabasco
1 teaspoon teriyaki sauce
Flake the fish with a fork and combine other ingredients.
Chill. Use as a dip or spread on crackers.
Lobsters
Cooking Time: 35 minutes
Fill indirect fire boxes with briquettes. Place live lobsters
in direct fire boxes and put grill rack in place to prevent
their escape
Lobster Thermidor PDQ
1 lobster per person
2 cups white wine
Parsley
Thyme
Bay leaf
Tarragon
Mix 2 cups white wine with 4 cups of water. Season to taste
with parsley, thyme, bayleaf and tarragon. Steam 1 ¼ -1 ½ lb.
lobsters (1 per person) for 5 minutes. Remove from stock.
Cool, cut in half lengthwise. Remove vein sack behind head,
liver and coral roe.
Reduce lobster juice to 3 cups. Take off of heat. Add
roux (5 tbsp flour, 6 tbsp butter mixed). Boil 1 minute
more to thicken. Add hot sauce (recipe below) by droplets.
Hot Sauce Recipe
1 tablespoon mustard
2 egg yolks
½ cup cream
Cayenne to taste
Slowly bring back to a boil, stirring with a wooden spoon
for 2 minutes. Thin sauce out with 5-6 tablespoons more cream
if necessary (sauce should be just heavy enough to coat a
wooden spoon). Taste for
seasoning.
Place lobster halves shell side down over indirect heat
in P.D.Q. Brush with butter. Grill 5 minutes – Turn – grill
meat side down 5 minutes – turn shell side down again – Fill
meat side with hot sauce – grill 5-10 minutes more
until done. Serve extra sauce on the side.
Roasted Oysters
Cooking Time: 8-10 minutes per bushel
Fill indirect fire boxes with briquettes. Put ½” of
water in the drip pans. Place well washed oysters on grill
rack and cook with lid closed.
Scallop Skewers P.D.Q.
Cooking Time: approximately 10 minutes
1½-2 lbs. scallops (bay scallops work best)
Bacon
¼ cup bourbon
¼ cup lime juice
¼ cup soy sauce
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
2 or more tablespoons brown sugar (to taste)
Mix above ingredients in a ceramic bowl. Add scallops. Marinate
for 2 hours. Thread scallops onto skewers (metal or water
soaked wood skewers are preferable) alternating with a slice
of bacon. Grill over direct heat for approximately 10 minutes
until bacon is crisp and scallops are done.
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