Feast of the Seven Fishes

I'm doing it for my first time too!! Here is my menu:

- [ ] Lump Crab Caesar Salad (1. Crab, 2. Anchovies in homemade Caesar dressing)
- [ ] Chinese Takeout Style Shrimp Toast (3. Shrimp)
- [ ] Garlic Butter Steamed Clams (4. Clams)
- [ ] Red Snapper w. Crawfish Cream Sauce (5. Red Snapper, 6. Crawfish)
- [ ] Lobster Mac and Cheese (7. Lobster)

I won't bore you with my process notes. Our dining room is on a different floor than the kitchen, so it will be chaos getting the table set while everything remains hot, but I'm looking forward to the challenge.

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crabs in tomato gravy

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That's something I've never eaten, certainly never cooked. Not sure I've even seen it on a menu.

The tomato doesn't overpower the crab flavor?

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What's your thoughts on fried oysters as part of the Caesar Salad?

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I order this at any restaurant that offers it. I vote yes.

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Our dining room is on a different floor than the kitchen

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Dafuq!

All good suggestions......I thought about adding oyster dressing, but We decided that the stuffed eggplant was heavy enough. My oyster dressing has a meat component, so it is sort of out of keeping with the non meat tradition

I thought about Seafood Gumbo and may still do it....maybe. I experimented with Cioppino last week and while good, my wife was not a fan and one of my son's came over with his wife and while not against it were not exactly for it.

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Grilled Trout with lemon, butter, and capers (speckled trout)

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How are you grilling a speckled trout?

I love grilled fish and specks but my attempts at grilling them was a miserable failure.

I grill speckled trout and found the best way is to not have the grill scorching hot. Medium hot to hot and a clean well oiled grate

I brush melted butter or olive oil on one side of the fish and lightly season with salt only.

Then I season the other side however I want no oil.

Then grill it only on the one side until cooked through. You might need to close the grill towards the end for a minute or two to let it finish.

Then remove and plate grill side up.

Works great and much less likely to break apart.

Or flip it and let it break up and use on the salad in lieu of crabmeat. Which I’ve done a few times before I tried this way.

Trust me it’s the least strange thing about my home

OP: I thought about seafood gumbo or cioppino as well, but it feels like cheating.

Did it a few years ago with friends so it was easy to split it up

Caviar
Octopus salad
Crabmeat Bruschetta
Lobster Arancini
Italian baked oysters
Clam spaghetti with homemade pasta
Whole roasted fish (couldn’t find branzino but don’t remember what we did)

I'm liking it! Maybe a store bought shrimp ring....and pasta salad