well it's my birthday(41),and i love fish,so for dinner tommorrow we're gonna have some. anybody have a good recipe for poor mans lobster(who can afford the real stuff?).i hope cod works, cuz thats what we bought.by the way my ma said i should do what my dad does he's been 39 for 39 years.

thanks folks,

fred holding @ 29

-- fred in wi (sixuvusmeyers@aol.com), February 11, 2001

Answers

Any chance you can get your hands on some fish cheeks? Not joking here, a friend who used to work at a large fish market used to get them for me. She told me they actually throw these away and they are the most delicious pieces of fish I've ever tasted. Sort of like sweet scallops more than lobster I'd say. I used to make a scallop roll out of them in a toasted hot dog bun and put home made tarter sauce on it........yummy and then some! If I remember correctly these usually came from large cod fish. I like imitation crab/lobster which is packaged polluck with flavoring from crab/lobster. Cheaper and tasty. Happy 41st. by the way, your still a youngster!

-- Bob Johnson (Backwoods_Bob@excite.com), February 11, 2001.

I did have a recipie yrs ago for poor mans lobster. I can't find it at the moment, always seems to work like that. I recall you could use cod or haddock and you boiled it in a cheesecloth for a bit of time with some vinegar. I'll have to see if i can find it in my recipie collection. I never did make it. it sounds so good, and i'm a big lobster fan.

Bernice

-- Bernice (geminigoats@yahoo.com), February 11, 2001.

Happy birthday fred, now you are older than your father!!! Don't have a recipe, just wanted to say happy birthday.

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), February 12, 2001.

http://soar.berkeley.edu/recipes/meat/seafood/poor-mans-lobster1.rec

-- ~Rogo (rogo2020@yahoo.com), February 12, 2001.

Great recipe site, Rogo. All these years and I thought poor man's lobster were crawdads.

-- Laura (gsend@hotmail.com), February 12, 2001.

Laura, that's what my gramps called crawdaddys, I never knew there was an actual recipe until this post!!!

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), February 12, 2001.

I bought some imitation lobster at the store last summer and it listed Alaskan Pollack as the main ingredient.

-- Sandy Davis (smd2@netzero.net), February 14, 2001.

I can send you real ones for 1/2 of the advertised prices. Not cheap, mind you, but a service to other countryside friends. I may, in return, ask for an at cost shipment of whatever is the goodie from your neck of the woods! The old Maineiac -

-- Brad (homefixer@SacoRiver.net), February 14, 2001.