/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.10779389]

What the fuck do I do with salmon heads? I'm thinking soup, but what kind of soup? I'd like to do something involving red wine but recipes seem to favor white wine instead. Could I just wing it with something in the ballpark of italian flavors and do well assuming I'm confident in my abiility?

[Anonymous No.10779392]

>>10779389
remove the collar bone and roast it with garlic butter and lemon, use the rest in a stock

[Anonymous No.10779398]

I use them as bait to catch crabs.

[Anonymous No.10779402]

>>10779389
>>10779392
Marinate them in 'vark sauce and grill to perfection

[Anonymous No.10779404]

>>10779389

well, theres a lot of good meat in the collar. it's good for searing or baking or you could brine and smoke or bake everything, scrape off all meat, and make a salmon mousse or rillette.

i think fish soup is kinda gross usually but something like a tomato salmon bisque or bouillabase might be dope

[Anonymous No.10779414]

>>10779392
>>10779402
I'm really set on a soup as I'm entertaining, otherwise I'd probably just marinate them in something or put a light coat of dry seasoning/split them down the center and grill the whole head + collar.

>>10779404
Thinking something tomato based but open to suggestions. I like fish soup but it doesn't get reheated so I usually make it in a cast iron bowl by portion, this is my first time doing a larger batch or working salmon heads into a soup.

[Anonymous No.10779434]

>>10779414

i think it's gonna need to be tomato based to hold up against something as oily and assertive in flavor as good salmon.

>tfw back in ohio after living/cooking in seattle for 4 years
>tfw all salmon is inedible

fuck this shit

[Anonymous No.10779444]

>>10779389
They make an awesome stock. I split them down the middle, then sear them in a pan (both sides). Stick em in a saucepan, add water, and simmer very gently for about 45 min. Now you have a delicious, but very basic, fish stock.

You can use that stock for all sorts of things: soup, seafood stews, gumbo, sauces...

If you wanted to go italian it would be great with some white beans, tomatoes...maybe some short pasta thrown in?

[Anonymous No.10779446]

>>10779414

then go use Google you massive faggot

>hey /ck/ looking for suggestions on x
>no not that
>or that
>actually I already have something in mind I just want you to tell me it sounds good

every. fucking. time.

[Anonymous No.10779457]

>>10779389
Usually a fishead soup.

Tomatoes

Tamarind base

Salmon heads

Dill

Pickled Mustards

[Anonymous No.10779463]

>>10779434
Seek out fish markets that take pride in their product. Not all fresh frozen is created or kept equally. If the butcher is also the fishmonger and store is predominantly asian with a small cookery there you're in the right kind of place.

>>10779446
I mentioned wanting to use red wine because recipes call for white wine friend. I have 7 or so tabs open right now but none of them look like what I'm seeking.

>>10779444
Was leaning towards this since it's familiar territory. Thinking about adding some clams in shell and some other seafood to the mix. Do you think the salmon stock would respond well to red wine being incorporated into it? I plan on leaving the head in the soup as presentation is secondary to flavor and the group I have coming are big fans of seafood. There will be no leftovers.

>>10779457
Sounds really good but I've never actually cooked with tamarind before.

[Anonymous No.10779478]

>>10779463
10779444 here
Clams would be a great idea. If you can get some good shrimp or prawns that would also be excellent. If it were me, I'd take it Thai style and make tom yum (assuming you can get the requisite herbs). Your wine idea didn't occur to me but I think it could work if you got a good hard sear on the heads. You need a robust meaty element in the stock to counter the wine. Grill the heads & shrimp if possible.

[Anonymous No.10779482]

>>10779463

i'm not getting "fresh off the boat this morning" fish no matter what.

do what other anon said, make stock and cook down some tomatoes and italian herbs and shit in it, puree, cook beans, cook off some spicy italian sausage deglaze with tomato fish puree, add beans/butter/lemon juice and garnish with some fennel/dill/parsley or maybe mint dressed in olive oil and lemon juice.

that sounds really fucking good.

[Anonymous No.10779491]

i'm >>10779482 but to piggyback off of >>10779478 , after cooking off your sausage and garlic and whatever, deglaze and cook down some red wine then incorporate the tomato/fish head puree and beans.

my mouth is actually watering

[Anonymous No.10779511]

Thanks guys. I'll be keeping an eye on the thread just because salmon heads are a favorite ingredient and different peoples' favorite recipes using them are always nice to try out.

[Anonymous No.10780289]

>>10779389

[Anonymous No.10780292]

>>10779389
>>10780289

[Anonymous No.10780298]

>>10779404
Salmon soup is fucking top tier though

[Anonymous No.10780301]

>hipsters are now forcing themselves to eat fish heads to apologize for being white
Let me guess, you put cilantro and limes on it. The ultimate in noxious, foul-tasting white guilt ingredients.

Don't forget the (((kosher))) salt!

[Anonymous No.10780321]

>>10780289
>>10780292

go away.

there's a video of a halibut loin flipping around in an oven.. it's from salt/lemon juice making the muscles cells fire.

>>10780301

this board is the worst. what does this even mean?

>it's weird to use the whole animal
>cilantro and lime are white guilt ingredients
>kosher salt is bad

are you tryna trick me again?

[Anonymous No.10780325]

>>10779389
>>10780289
>>10780292

[Anonymous No.10780334]

>>10779389
>red wine and salmon heads
sounds great make sure to load up on the allspice too

[Anonymous No.10780355]

>>10780325
A vegan poster with an anti vegan statement on it.
????

[Anonymous No.10780361]

>>10780325
>when the cognitive dissonance results in supporting the view of the side you claim to be against
kek

[Anonymous No.10780404]

>>10780325
Hell yeah!
Humans are number ONE, baby!

[Anonymous No.10780887]

>>10779389
I personally grill it with some soy sauce and lemon juice. Good fat and meat in the cheeks.

[Anonymous No.10780900]

>>10779389
if you're mixing fish and red wine you shouldn't be confident in your ability senpai

[Anonymous No.10780919]

>>10779389
i bought one once and made a joke to the cute lady cashier who recognizes me that i bought it so i wouldn't get lonely. never actually used it and just chucked it.

[Anonymous No.10781031]

>>10780289
Is this alive? Interesting that someone can inflict such suffering just for a gimmick.
>>10780355
>>10780361
>>10780404
Isn't the point that dominating another human using force is seen as morally wrong so if we are doing that to animals we degrading ourselves?

>>10780900
Kek

[Anonymous No.10781038]

>>10781031
>Is this alive?
No you fucking moron.

It's ATP in the muscles being released due to chemical reactions usually from salt, lemon juice, etc.

[Anonymous No.10781049]

>>10780325
This isn't even correct, the thing that distinguishes humans from other animals is sapience.
We don't treat animals the same way as other people because animals aren't self-aware.

[Anonymous No.10781187]

>>10779389
My girlfriend's parents makes soup with them. Not sure what it's called since they're Chinese.

[Anonymous No.10781216]

>>10779389
Make Tom Yum Soup, I used to work in a Thai place which has a sushi place right across the street and since they don't use the head they would always give it to us. I put some nugs in once and got the whole staff high, it was a great end to a busy day.

[Anonymous No.10782216]

>>10780900

I already came up with one way of how he could use red wine and salmon heads in the same dish.. lrn2cook fag

[Anonymous No.10782233]

>>10780289
>cameraman gets spooked in the end
Wew

[Anonymous No.10782257]

>>10781031
>Isn't the point that dominating another human using force is seen as morally wrong so if we are doing that to animals we degrading ourselves?
Wewlad! What fucking brainlet philosophical system thinks that? lmfao
This is something that goes on all the time in all nations. The very function of the state is to keep people docile by the implicit threat of violence from police/military, and it's only under the domination of the state that we are forced instead to cooperate or act subservient