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M MadDogMike Grand Member (8 years) The Anvil of the Sun Joined: Mar 30, 2008 Posts: 11035	M MadDogMike Posted posted on Sat, Oct 13, 2012 8:27 PM I've said before that my daughter and I are allergic to shrimp, crab, lobster, and crawfish. I pretend that I wouldn't like them anyway, that they are just big searoaches. But the truth is that they look really good. I had heard the monkfish is supposed to taste like lobster. It used to be know as "poor man's lobster" back before it got popular. Now at $20-25/lb, I think it cost more than lobster. I made some ceramic lobster tails a few years back and finally found some monkfish to cook in them. (sorry about the blurry cell phone pic) Baked with just a little garlic salt and served with lemon and butter it was pretty good. Also made some monkfish ceviche and monkfish tacos. Did it taste like lobster? How would I know? I've never tasted it :lol: Others at the table said that the taste was remarkably like lobster but the texture was not the same. Was it worth $25/lb? I'm not a big seafood fan, it was OK but frankly I'd rather have 3 pounds of steak at $8/lb instead of a pound of monkfish at $24/lb :D EDIT - in case you haven't seen one before, monkfish are an ugly bastard! DC, you catch any of these? When you come across a big kettle of crazy, sometimes it's best not to stir it Pirate Ship Tree House [ Edited by: MadDogMike 2012-10-13 21:24 ]

I've said before that my daughter and I are allergic to shrimp, crab, lobster, and crawfish. I pretend that I wouldn't like them anyway, that they are just big searoaches. But the truth is that they look really good. I had heard the monkfish is supposed to taste like lobster. It used to be know as "poor man's lobster" back before it got popular. Now at $20-25/lb, I think it cost more than lobster. I made some ceramic lobster tails a few years back and finally found some monkfish to cook in them. (sorry about the blurry cell phone pic)

Baked with just a little garlic salt and served with lemon and butter it was pretty good. Also made some monkfish ceviche and monkfish tacos. Did it taste like lobster? How would I know? I've never tasted it :lol: Others at the table said that the taste was remarkably like lobster but the texture was not the same. Was it worth $25/lb? I'm not a big seafood fan, it was OK but frankly I'd rather have 3 pounds of steak at $8/lb instead of a pound of monkfish at $24/lb :D

EDIT - in case you haven't seen one before, monkfish are an ugly bastard! DC, you catch any of these?

When you come across a big kettle of crazy, sometimes it's best not to stir it
Pirate Ship Tree House

[ Edited by: MadDogMike 2012-10-13 21:24 ]

Post #655427 by MadDogMike on Sat, Oct 13, 2012 8:27 PM