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When I visited New Zealand's Stewart Island in 2005 to stay with my brother's in-laws (who run a sea food business there) I had the pleasure of a home cooked di
by teh_klev 7y ago
When I visited New Zealand's Stewart Island in 2005 to stay with my brother's in-laws (who run a sea food business there) I had the pleasure of a home cooked dinner of locally dive caught abalone and my own line caught blue cod. The abalone was cooked in garlic butter and was utterly delicious. I'm not really a huge fan of things that live in shells in the sea, but I could certainly get used to abalone.
Afterwards I was told that the (fairly sizeable) portion of abalone I'd consumed would have cost US$150+ in a US restaurant. I nearly fell off of my chair.
- giardini 7y agoteh_klev says". The abalone was cooked in garlic butter and was utterly delicious. I'm not really a huge fan of things that live in shells in the sea, but I could certainly get used to abalone." But anything cooked in garlic butter is utterly delicious! The abalone is merely a carrier for the hot garlic butter.
- teh_klev 7y agoWell, yes I admit this is true. But the abalone had a nice texture, like nicely cooked mushrooms I guess. Having thought about it, it was actually like eating a really nice plate of foraged-in-the-wood mushrooms cooked in garlic butter but with a background taste that I couldn't properly identify (maybe the sea), but it wasn't unpleasant.