Last of the Striper, Pan Fried ala BGE

Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker

Quick little post about the last of the one fillet.

Some home made breadcrumbs (we pulse stale bread in the food processor instead of throwing it out) were jacked up with a little cumin, sweet curry, salt, pepper, and paprika. upped the crunch potential with a little coarse corn meal. brushed the steaks with a little olive oil and then dredged in the bread crumbs (did that twice each side).

Fired up the BGE to 400-500 ish, dome open. Some peanut oil into a hot cast iron pan for a few minutes a side



and finished, resting


quickly grilled some romaine and summer squash


and then plated up with some roasted potatoes.



made a quick garlicky aioli with a little added basil chiffonade, and nailed it with some parsley

mmm mmm good.

as a funny side note, the dude i went fishing with stopped by while i was at the grill. the dome was shut to roast them a bit while they were on the second side, frying. he had come by to pick up his fillet (damn), and had told me he was going to foil it on the grill with some peppers and onions. he asked "what's cooking" and i opened the lid to take them out, putting on the veggies.

i always like when someone stops by and asks "what's cooking?" even better that he was going to be going away now having seen them like that and settling for foiled fish. every time i go fishing with someone their suggestion for cooking the fish is to foil it with peppers and onions. what gives?

Mainegg

He can keep his peppers and onions! that looks great Jeff. Wonder if he still foiled it??

Little Chef

Stike....That's a nice lookin' cook there! I sure do miss my NE Stripers! :( And yes, I even love the bluefish, too!
Now that poor filet is doomed to foil with peppers and onions??? :pinch: I might have told him he couldn't have it! :laugh: Poor, poor striper. No justice in that. :S
Nice cook.

Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker

i'm sure he did.

told me it was "aw-sum" that way

Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker

yeah, i really didn't wanna give it to him..

you see the other striper cook from last night?

i liked it as much or better. wife and my oldest preferred this. i tried to tell my youngest it was a chicken nugget :woohoo:

elzbth

That is the best looking fish I've seen in a long time. I don't care for foiled fish at all - your method is much more to my liking. Can't wait to give this a try. I'm thinking a nice red snapper filet would work well.

Frank from Houma

Mightyfine striper

Wrapping in foil would make it Striper en Papillote

Basically steamed fish with veggies

I have done it with pompano but with several other veggies as well - prefer fish several other ways

cookn biker

Nice cook Jeff!! I love fish pan fried.

ResQue

I have never foiled rockfish with peppers and onions. A real good treat, if you haven't tried it, is to cube the rockfish, coat heavily with mayo, and generously sprinkle with old bay. Wrap that in foil and cook til fork tender.

Edit: BTW, your fish looks great. I am a big fan of not foiling but the mayo and old bay is just delicious.

Nature Boy

Dang.

Very nice.

Cheers
Chris

Woodbutcher

Wow Jeff that looks great! I'm going to borrow that bread crumb recipe and fry up some fish. Nice photo's too. Thanks for sharing.

FlaPoolman

Fried is my favorite with fish and that looks good enough for a road trip
As much as I like to eat I still think catching them is the best part.

Gator Bait

 
Looks awesome St!ke, I agree with LC, miss the striper's and the blues. Used to drift in with the tide up through Duxbury bay at night with a big knot of clam worms just off the bottom. The schoolies would be thick as fleas. Striper's often got baked, blues hit the grill. I used to get more flounder than anything else and they would get breaded and fried in butter. Yum!

Gator

 

Lawn Ranger

Meal looks great...you're the real deal.

LR

eenie meenie

Stike, if chicken nuggets tasted like that fish, I would start eating them.

Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker

dunno about "the real deal" LR, but thanks.
I wish I'd been able to keep the other fillet too. Alas...

My older boy was debating whether the fish from the night before was better, or this one. Nice to hear a kid raving about fish