Happy Hump Day Guys and Dolls:“FUKI, YAKI, SAKI, WANT SOME SEAFOOD?” That’s right Speakies it is officially Week of the Oceans and to Joey Z that means seafood for eating. I must confess as I have mentioned in several posts my favorite food is from bountiful pleasures of the sea, how about those words? No kidding I’m a big seafood fan I think it all started when I was a wee Joey Z whose mother served him Mrs. Paul’s fish sticks and fries. Then came Granny O. who made those delicious salmon cakes served with her enormous French fries. Of course there was that wonderful flounder, fries and slaw that came every Friday when my mother ordered it for dinner from Top Road Tavern. I can still see wee Joey Z crossing Brunswick Ave. to pick-up our order at 5:00 p.m. The memories of catching Fluke out of the Atlantic Highlands and Roe preparing her beer battered fish for the family to enjoy. Seafood, seafood I could go on for hours but I would start to get real hungry and right now I don’t have access to seafood unless I skip out to Mickey D’s for a fast fish sandwich. Shall I name the rest of my favorite seafood delights, yes and they are as follows:
Shrimp – Anyway you cook them.
Scallops – Broiled in butter or fried.
Flounder – Fried, broiled, stuffed with crab and old time Joey Z favorite.
Lobster – My rich man’s delight when we are cruising.
Clams Casino – Crecco’s in Trenton, NJ had the best.
Mussels Marinara - LaGondola served the very best.
Oysters on the Half Shell – Never had one but it’s on my list if I don’t look at them first. Bucket List item to eat.
Enough seafood already there are more holidays to speak about like Animal Cracker Day but to me they are only cookies of my childhood past but in honor I promise to eat some one day. Have a great day Speakies and think Seafood.
2 comments:
Joe, in 1980 I took a course on an island in Maine. The local dock had a "Stewart's" affair called the Harraseeket Lunch & Lobster Pound. I think a pound is like a "kennel" till they market lobsters. For a scant (less than $5), you got a "cull", which is a lobster with one claw, huge order of fries and slaw and drink.
Shorty's on Mullberry and Brunswick had a great flounder fry every Friday.
Count me in for sea food. Even had my own boat on LBI for a few years. The "belly cut" of the fluke is where the flavor is!
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Skip: Never ate at Shorty's is the place still around?
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