Lent Is Here - Your At Home Seafood Meals?

Linguine with Clam Sauce

Ingredients:

12 oz. linguine pasta

2 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil

2 tbsp. unsalted butter

2-3 cloves garlic, minced

2 (6.5 oz) cans minced clams, juices reserved

½ cup heavy cream (or half-and-half)

Salt and pepper

Grated Parmesan, for serving


Directions:

Bring a large pot of salted water to boil. Cook pasta according to the package directions until al dente. Drain well.


Meanwhile, in a large skillet or saucepan, heat the olive oil and butter over medium-high heat until the butter is completely melted. Add the garlic to the pan and sauté until golden and fragrant, about 1 minute. Add the reserved clam juice to the pan, bring to a simmer, and reduce by about half. With the heat on medium-low, stir in the clams and the heavy cream. Season the sauce to taste with salt and pepper.


Portion the pasta into warmed serving bowls. Spoon some of the sauce over the pasta and top with grated Parmesan, if desired. Serve immediately.

I’d like to try this with gulf oysters. Seems like it would be a reasonable substitute. Either small oysters or just cut them into smaller pieces.

I've been making more pasta meals using Palmini and/or Shiritaki (miracle) noodles. Shrimp, broccoli, mushrooms and pasta. Louisiana brand has a pretty solid lemon butter, and garlic butter sauce in a jar, or a simple light sauce with olive oil and seasonings.

Shrimp Tostadas

Toast low carb tortillas in the air fryer until crunchy, or fry in pan
Quick guacamole or just sliced avocados
Top with sauteed or grilled shrimp and few dashes of Cholula.

Shrimp salad- boiled eggs, shrimp, celery, dill, capers, mayo, mustard, salt, pepper

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egg salad

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More expensive than a crawfish boil these days.

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Ahhh, Lent. The time of year we fast and abstain by over indulging in expensive AF seafood. The true meaning of sacrifice.

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Exactly…People who “don’t eat meat” during lent piss me off. They say they’re sacrificing by gorging themselves with fried seafood

Lol. Catholics eating seafood on Fridays pisses you off? Really?

No-meat is supposed to remind you of the “sacrifice” Jesus made for you.

It’s a food board. Just trying to get some recipes and ideas for seafood meals for fun.

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No-meat is supposed to remind you of the “sacrifice” Jesus made for you.

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I’m sorry but downing all you can eat crawfish and fried shrimp and catfish does NOT remind me of a single sacrifice anyone has ever made. Ever.

Also, that was probably not the best use of quotation marks.

I bet you’re fun to hang out with.

Give us a humble seafood recipe that we can cook instead of downing all you can eat crawfish. This is a food board, after all. And the thread topic is seafood meals.

Gris Gris already did.

It’s nothing personal against you. If anything, I’m more pissed at the poster who said Lent is about “keeping it simple” and then proceeded to post about how they will be having fried catfish, boiled shrimp and crawfish etouffee. Catholics have got to take a step back and see how Lent, especially in Louisiana, is such a joke to people not in the religion. Catholics never eat better than during Lent around here.

Why discuss this in a thread about recipes and what seafood you cook at home?

Take it to the OT where this is discussed ad nauseum every year.

Not all Catholics eat as you describe.