Any whale recipes?

RRP

OhioEgger said:

Ate lots of head cheese as a kid, and some butcher shops around here still carry it. Bloodwurst was more of a favorite though.

I only had headcheese once, when someone gave my Father a huge hog head. I remember to this very day (and I’m now 79 years old) when I started out the kitchen door and saw that HUGE UGLY head in a box staring at me by the door! I was probably 9 years old and it startled me!!!

Anyway my Mother made that headcheese while I was in school…so I never saw what she did to make it! 

But the memory also connected to the headcheese was Dad brought home the other first time taste treat…French onion sour cream dip for potato chips…

I honestly loved it all! 

alaskanassasin

RRP said:

OhioEgger said:

Ate lots of head cheese as a kid, and some butcher shops around here still carry it. Bloodwurst was more of a favorite though.

I only had headcheese once, when someone gave my Father a huge hog head. I remember to this very day (and I’m now 79 years old) when I started out the kitchen door and saw that HUGE UGLY head in a box staring at me by the door! I was probably 9 years old and it startled me!!!

Anyway my Mother made that headcheese while I was in school…so I never saw what she did to make it! 

But the memory also connected to the headcheese was Dad brought home the other first time taste treat…French onion sour cream dip for potato chips…

I honestly loved it all! 

They sure don’t make them like they used too.

Ozzie_Isaac

alaskanassasin said:

RRP said:

OhioEgger said:

Ate lots of head cheese as a kid, and some butcher shops around here still carry it. Bloodwurst was more of a favorite though.

I only had headcheese once, when someone gave my Father a huge hog head. I remember to this very day (and I’m now 79 years old) when I started out the kitchen door and saw that HUGE UGLY head in a box staring at me by the door! I was probably 9 years old and it startled me!!!

Anyway my Mother made that headcheese while I was in school…so I never saw what she did to make it! 

But the memory also connected to the headcheese was Dad brought home the other first time taste treat…French onion sour cream dip for potato chips…

I honestly loved it all! 

They sure don’t make them like they used too.

Do you think the head was a warning to RRP's dad for crossing the wrong person?

JohnInCarolina

Ozzie_Isaac said:

alaskanassasin said:

RRP said:

OhioEgger said:

Ate lots of head cheese as a kid, and some butcher shops around here still carry it. Bloodwurst was more of a favorite though.

I only had headcheese once, when someone gave my Father a huge hog head. I remember to this very day (and I’m now 79 years old) when I started out the kitchen door and saw that HUGE UGLY head in a box staring at me by the door! I was probably 9 years old and it startled me!!!

Anyway my Mother made that headcheese while I was in school…so I never saw what she did to make it! 

But the memory also connected to the headcheese was Dad brought home the other first time taste treat…French onion sour cream dip for potato chips…

I honestly loved it all! 

They sure don’t make them like they used too.

Do you think the head was a warning to RRP's dad for crossing the wrong person?

It was probably sent by Wes Johnson’s father.

Corv

Not the head cheese, the whale! 

Focus, people.

fishlessman

i would assume that one could make head cheese from a whale, why not

Ozzie_Isaac

fishlessman said:

i would assume that one could make head cheese from a whale, why not

9 kilos of brain, but I wonder how much meat there is to scrape off to make head cheese?

fishlessman

Ozzie_Isaac said:

fishlessman said:

i would assume that one could make head cheese from a whale, why not

9 kilos of brain, but I wonder how much meat there is to scrape off to make head cheese?

i dont know but it could be served with whale milk (more like a cottage cheese)

Ozzie_Isaac

I wonder if the OP contracted a once thought extinct parasite from the whale and is in the ICU?

Botch

Curious as to what a whale nipple looks like, thankfully that terrible night at the tri-Delt sorority at ISU has been successfully erased for life.    

iudex

Hi everyone! Very sorry for not getting back to you, things were weirdly hectic and I didn't get time to cook (for real), let alone engage in the forum!

That sneaky father-in-law already tried a part himself, without including me. Luckily, it worked out and even more luckily, I will be able to have some for Christmas.

I will make sure to report how it was afterwards. I do feel bad for not being able to cook it myself, but on the other hand, I also cannot mess anything up .

I will let you know how it turned out. 

Happy holidays for everyone here!

ThermanMurch

Botch said:

Curious as to what a whale nipple looks like, thankfully that terrible night at the tri-Delt sorority at ISU has been successfully erased for life.    

Classy.  My grandmother was a tri-delt, so was my mother and my three sisters.

Botch

Ewps!    

JohnInCarolina

Botch said:

Curious as to what a whale nipple looks like, thankfully that terrible night at the tri-Delt sorority at ISU has been successfully erased for life.    

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjC0vMIrOAk

Corv

iudex said:

....I will make sure to report how it was afterwards. I do feel bad for not being able to cook it myself, but on the other hand, I also cannot mess anything up .

I will let you know how it turned out....

Thanks for checking in!  Please do let us know; I for one will likely never see whale or get to taste it.

iudex

Best wishes for all in this new year!

Finally back to report on the whale tasting . 

So, what we did was thaw the whale steak and then simply put it in melted (but cooled down) butter. Do not ask me why, but this is what his recipe said. It seems this is mostly done to avoid adding fat during the actual cook, but it still seems weird to me. 

Then we basically pan fried it. I can imagine grilling would work the same, but conserving the whale-infused butter used while frying (typed whale frying there first, lol) would seem nice to pour over the meat and/or side dishes.

The structure was very beef-like and the meat does allow for very rare cooking. What did surprise me, was the taste. It actually tasted a lot like salmon, allbeit a very deep, 'wild' salmon flavour, which I would describe as gamey just because I know no other words for it.

All in all a great experience, glad I was lucky enough to try this!

And of course a picture without forks:

lkapigian

^^^^^WoW^^^

Corv

Thanks for the update, photo and description. Very interesting. I'll probably never have a chance to try that.

Legume

4th look at your post, I just can't believe the picture!  Looks like beef, taste like salmon.  Crazy.

Ozzie_Isaac

I love salmon.
I love beef.
I love butter.
That is amazing.  Thanks for sharing.

Dyal_SC

I would have never thought whale meat would look like beef!  Cool!

Ybabpmuts

My cousin Billy dated a whale in high school. Whenever I got close to her I thought she smelled a lot like gamey salmon. For years I wondered if she had underwear made of old salmon skin, but now I just think she was just all whale. This forum is amazing, the things you learn on here.

Legume

Ybabpmuts said:

My cousin Billy dated a whale in high school. Whenever I got close to her I thought she smelled a lot like gamey salmon. For years I wondered if she had underwear made of old salmon skin, but now I just think she was just all whale. This forum is amazing, the things you learn on here.

@StumpBaby For the purpose of this post, I'm going to call you Donnie.  You know what to do.

Ybabpmuts

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