Beach Food in the Mountains

[NCHillbilly]

I've been craving me a big Calabash-style fried combo platter like you get at those little rustic beach seafood shacks. So, I rounded up some good shrimp and some Clark's Hill cats to sub out for the flounder.

Soaking in the Magic Elixir of Goodness (lemon juice and Crystal hot sauce: )



Then, they got seasoned, breaded, and rested in the fridge while I chopped up some taters and some onions and jalapenos for the hushpuppies, and YHFP made up some spicy cocktail sauce.

Everybody into the oil, and onto the platter:



This was quite edible.

 

[tjchurch]

Perfect plate there. I could eat it for breakfast this morning.

 

[Para Bellum]

Dang that looks so good.

 

[pjciii]

That will certainly do.

 

[Nicodemus]

DOUBLE Dadgum!

 

[Kdog]

I could go for a plate of that!

 

[Hooked On Quack]

Just enough to make me mad !!

 

[blood on the ground]

Don't get no better than that.

 

[furtaker]

Dadgum that looks good!

 

[NCHillbilly]

Just enough to make me mad !!

It about whupped my butt, and I'm a right good-sized ol' boy.

 

[NCHillbilly]

Dang dude! You should open a restaurant!

Nope. I'm a decent cook, but I'm lazy, slow, and don't know a thing about running a business. Cooking is about 1% of running a restaurant.

 

[Silver Britches]

Man, that looks so dang good!

 

[Da Possum]

mercy.....

 

[Geffellz18]

That’s a sho-nuff fiiiine looking plate right there!

 

[Paymaster]

Fantastic Food right there!!!

 

[Worley]

Yeah that plate will work Anytime...looks great fella

 

[GA1dad]

Craving flung!!! Looks outstanding!!!

 

[hawkeye123]

Perfect seafood platter!!

 

[shoot870p]

Secret breading to go with the elixir? Corn meal and flour with some pepper?
Sure looks good!
Walker

 

[NCHillbilly]

Secret breading to go with the elixir? Corn meal and flour with some pepper?
Sure looks good!
Walker

Shrimp: Hit them with some Old Bay seasoning, then into some egg and milk wash, then into self-rising flour spiked with plenty of black pepper.
Fish: Seasoned them with my Creole seasoning mix I make up, then dredged in House of Autry seafood breader spiked with black pepper.