I Like Sardines

I love sardines, especially the King Oscar brand packed in extra virgin olive oil. I have Celiac Disease so I avoid gluten. I eat them with rice; I pour the oil onto the rice and season it with whatever I want (mushrooms, spices, raw tomatoes) and eat the fish. The King Oscar brand is twice as much as the cheaper brand but I buy it anyway.

My wife won't eat them and always scowls and covers her nose when I've opened a tin.
 
I like sardines in mustard sauce. Place it on a cracker and eat it. When done, crumble up a few crackers in the mustard, mix well and eat.

Happen to have a tin for lunch today.
 
Not to sidetrack the discussion, but for those of us who spent some time away from home on Uncle Sam's dime, there were any number of most requested items that one wanted stuffed in our "Care Packages." Things like a certain type of tooth brush, toothpaste, or razor was always a given, but the big ticket items, like sardines, was one of several items on the top 10. These were my top 10 must have items:

1. King Oscar skinless & boneless sardines in EVOO.
2. Japanese rice crackers.
3. Beef jerky
4. Large tin of shelled pistacchio nuts.
5. Sea salt and ground peppercorn in handy shakers.
6. Black Forrest Gummy Bears
7. Canned white meat chicken breast
8. Canned corned beef hash
9. Canned Albacore Tuna in water
10. Large bag of beef jerky for dogs (sadly, there were so many stray dogs in the sandbox, and these treats made their year)

Feel free to add what you wanted, if you were on a Middle East vacation. :)
 
SARDINES? somebody say SARDINES?
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Yes, thanks....I'll have a sardine..
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As a Norwegian sardines are in the blood so to speak and a convenient protein source. I prepare mine a little strangely.
1.light spread of creamy peanut butter on toast,sardines crushed,hot pepper sauce {Scotch bonnet sauce from my mother's recipe}ketchup and raw onions.
2.Japanese mayo,mustard,sardines,sliced avocado and hot pepper sauce on toast.
 
I also like sardines, good travelin' food although the new freeze dried stuff makes for a lighter load in the backpack. The old time Cowboys around here must have liked them......if you have ever poked through the trash piles next to some of the old line cabins around here you find a lot of sardine cans (even the old oval ones), pork and bean cans, and peach cans.
 
Don't eat sardines much nowadays. When I was a kid you would get 2-3 layers of sardines in a can. Last ones I ate you got 2-3 slabs in a can. The smoked oysters are fun to play with. My oldest son would take some on Scout camp outs every couple of years (when we had new scouts), put one in his hand and pretend he was hacking up a lugie. Making sure the new boys saw the oyster in his hand he would then pick it up and eat it. Made for some interesting reactions. 12 and 13 yo boys can be so gullible...
Larry
 
Whenever I open a tin of fish, the dogs know they are in for a treat. They love to lick out the can and the lid. If there any bits or oil left on the plate, they will clean that up, too.

I buy canned octopus, too, but the stuff they serve at my favorite Greek restaurant is better. Squid in Ink (Calamari en su Tinta) is great on pasta, but only when I'm batchin' it, because my wife can't stand to look at it. That's okay, more for me.

We both go for smoked fish out of the Great Lakes. There are still some places on the north shore of Superior that have trout, salmon and whitefish. Some of the best fish I ever ate, we caught off Sheboygan, had them smoked and sent home. Expensive, though. Last winter, Shelly's brother brought back smoked tullibees, caught through the ice on Lake of the Woods. Another brother recently brought some smoked carp from Big Stone Lake (headwaters of the Minnesota River, on the SD border). Those were mighty tasty.

My pop used to make what he called a "savory parfait", a big dollop of ikura (red salmon caviar) in a parfait glass with a layer of sour cream bristling with Pik-Nik shoestring potatoes. One of those with some frozen akvit or vodka was a transcendental experience. But that's getting a little off the track....
 
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Marshwheeling in the above post brings up smoked fish. We always get whitefish dip (cracker spread) from St. Ignace in the Upper Pennisula from Manley's. It is literally a shack but renound for the best smoked fish. Best smoked fish you can get anywhere hands down.

Manley's Fish Market - Saint Ignace, MI
 
I LOVES me some sardines. I like the one packed in mustard the best. Put 'em on wheat thins or plain old saltine crackers.

But I offer this word of warning: They WILL make you drink a lot of beer! :D
 
I love the ones packed in mustard. I smoosh them up and spread them on saltine crackers. You're right, women can't stand them. She makes me take the can and lid outside immediately upon eating.
 
My late wife would make us sardine and onion sandwiches for lunch at our beach house in the summertime, which we washed down with Salty Dogs! Then we always had to take a nap. God, how I miss her!

medxam
 
duppie said:
As a Norwegian sardines are in the blood so to speak and a convenient protein source. I prepare mine a little strangely.
1.light spread of creamy peanut butter on toast,sardines crushed,hot pepper sauce {Scotch bonnet sauce from my mother's recipe}ketchup and raw onions.
2.Japanese mayo,mustard,sardines,sliced avocado and hot pepper sauce on toast.
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Had a friend in high school did the sardines and peanut butter for breakfast thought he was one of a kind.
I kind of like them on garlic toast.
 
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