Friday Food Fun - Week 16 - Seafood

What kind of seafood do you like?

01. Do you like seafood? Yes
02. Do you know anyone who is allergic to seafood? Yes
03. What is your favorite seafood? scallops, sushi
04. Do you have a favorite seafood recipe? no
05. Do you prefer your seafood steamed, boiled, broiled, or fried? I prefer steamed/broiled/boiled.
06. Do you like raw seafood? Yes
07. Do you like sushi? What kinds? Yes, my favorites are crab, caviar, and the seaweed.
08. Do you have a favorite seafood restaurant? The local cheap place (Easley, SC) is Silver Bay. The local more expensive place (Greenville, SC) Red Lobster. The best seafood restaurant I've ever been to was a buffet place in Florida that we went to on our way to Walt Disney World in November 2000. I don't know the name, but it was the best place. If I remember correctly, there was a wooden crab on the front of the building that was bigger than the restaurant.
09. Do you prefer to dip your shrimp in melted butter/margarine or cocktail sauce? margarine
10. Do you like some tarter sauce with your fish, hushpuppies or other seafood? No
11. Do you like hushpuppies? Sometimes
12. Do you like grit cakes? No

Tastes: Friday Food Fun - Week 5 - Beach Food - Seafood

1. What is your favorite seafood? Probably scallops, but I also love shrimp, crab, lobster, oysters, clams, and I like fish but not as much as the rest of these.
2. Are there certain seafoods you won't eat? No, but there are some that I've never had the chance to try. I will say, because of the way that most of it is prepared, I'm not crazy about deviled crab. I do eat it, but most of the times, I can't taste the crab...all I taste is the spices and so it's not seafood-y to me. Plus, they usually use a lot of onion and that overpowers everything else, so it's not one of my favorites.

3. Are you allergic to any seafood? Not that I'm aware of. I do, however, have a cousin who is highly allergic to seafood, among other things, and he can't even have his food prepared on the same surface or with the same utensils.
4. Do you prefer fried or broiled seafood? Broiled.
5. Do you like sushi (cooked or uncooked)? Yes!

6. What is your favorite seafood item? Well, I'm a sucker for a good bowl of clam chowder or oyster stew, some fried clam strips, or some boiled shrimp dipped in melted margarine, but really any combination of broiled seafood is bound to make me happy. I did find a really good seafood soup at a local sushi restaurant that has lobster, crab, shrimp, scallops, and fish cake in it and it has what tastes like a steakhouse seasoning flavor to it. Very good soup.

7. Do you have a good seafood recipe? Well, when I fix fish at home, I usually simply spray some butter on it and sprinkle it with parsley flakes and then pop it in the oven.

8. When you eat at the beach, do you go out to eat for your seafood, or do you fix it yourself? We usually do at least one shrimp boil (with corn on the cob, sausage and spice bag), but we always go out at least one or two times for a good seafood meal.
9. Is there something other than seafood that you consider to be "beach food" that you always have at the beach? We usually buy sandwich fixings for lunch. I usually like to have a bag of pistachios at the beach. I eat them other times of the year too, but there is just something about a vacation that says enjoy what you eat and what you do, and I love pistachio nuts, so that is one of my treats.