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[coraa]

We went shopping today and I came home with a beautiful little trout, which I ought to cook tomorrow before it begins to be less beautiful.

What would you do with trout?

[Poll #1562789]

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[dancambull.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it is because I always had trout while camping, but I would say BBQ it with butter and spices and then splashed with lemon and some parsley. The broiled dish would likely come close, but we always like our fish relatively plain, but that certainly isn't for everyone.

[tedeisenstein.livejournal.com]

BBQ trout? Huh. My family's always had it either sauteed in butter, or lightly dusted with flour or cornmeal and then sauteed. BBQ would be heresy here: it'd overwhelm the subtlety of the fish.

(And, yes, we're snobbish. We used to take vacations in the Adirondacks, where there was a trout stream about 30 feet from the kitchen: 20 minutes from water to plate - gut, de-scale, de-head, lightly dust with flour and salt, throw into sizzling butter, and *poof* Manna.)

[dancambull.livejournal.com]

Well, there wouldn't be BBQ sauce on it, we just didn't tend to camp with a pan. I wouldn't say it ever overwhelmed the fish, just gave it a light smokey grill flavor.

[tedeisenstein.livejournal.com]

Ah. We're using different definitions for "BBQ". Hereabouts (just down the road a bit from Kansas City), barbeque by definition includes a tomato-based sauce, and usually some sort of cooking involving long periods of time and lots of smoke from strongly-flavored wood (hickory, say), the type that pretty much requires a kitchen, sauces, and Weber-type grills (and that's for small portions).

Your BBQ is out-in-the-woods over-a-campfire cookery, right? Much simpler, fewer ingredients - and no tomato-based (KC barbecue) or vinegar-based (North Carolina) or bastardized-offspring (Texas)* sauces.





*It's a joke! Honest!

[dancambull.livejournal.com]

Yes, in my family BBQ and grilling are interchangeable, the thing to which you refer is smoking...funny how that works. I agree that that would be "murder" to a good trout.

[coraa.livejournal.com]

That sounds delicious. I haven't cleaned the grill and gotten it ready for summer cooking yet, but once I do, I think I will have to get more trout and cook it that way!