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FoldCatOne Full Grown Flour Bluffian
Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 1159 Location: Kerrville
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 10:41 am Post subject: How To make Home Cooked Seafood Taste Like A Good Restaurant |
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Ever wonder how a restaurant makes their sauces and Crab cakes, and soups taste so much better than at home. here is the possible reason - and you can't find the stuff in the store. This might solve the riddle.
http://www.soupbase.com/Seafood-Bases/products/5/ |
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CopanoCruisin Full Grown Flour Bluffian

Joined: 22 Apr 2006 Posts: 1064 Location: West shore of Copano Bay
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 11:28 am Post subject: |
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| Oh really? I do not think you can buy in a store what my grandmother taught my wife about cooking when we was young, forty something years ago!!!!Argh, to each his own, thanks for sharing the info..........cC |
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FoldCatOne Full Grown Flour Bluffian
Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 1159 Location: Kerrville
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 12:47 pm Post subject: |
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I pride myself on being a pretty darn good cook - my wife hardly can cook a lick. I love good sauces, but have struggled over the years with getting extra flavor into dishes. I ran into these bases and when added to a fish soup, or to crab cakes, or a shrimp or clam dip, etc they just add so much extra flavor. I figure if I am going to spend the time to pick crab, I want the dish made to have a "wow" factor. I also figure that if Grandma would have had access to these bases she probably would have used them. And as far as I can tell you can't get these in a store - I have looked and asked.
For The Record - I have no financial or other relationship to any of these companies. |
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steve78412 Flour Bluffian in training
Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 287 Location: Corpus Christi
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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I have three of their bases in my fridge right now.
Steve |
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FoldCatOne Full Grown Flour Bluffian
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| I just ordered my first two - Clam and Seafood. |
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ironmanstan Exalted Ruler of Flour Bluff

Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 12256
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Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 7:14 am Post subject: |
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I don't want my home cooked food to taste like a resturant. Mine is better. I think the resturants are using that stuff to try and get that home cooked taste.  _________________ I LIKE MINE FRIED. |
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Skillzzz9 Member White Shrimper Boot Club

Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 866 Location: Mustang Island
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Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 8:21 am Post subject: |
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To get that extra umph of flavor I usually boil the bones/shells to extract all the flavor. Reducing that boil will do the trick every time. _________________
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mattshere69 Finger Mullet
Joined: 06 May 2013 Posts: 38 Location: fort hood
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Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 9:33 am Post subject: |
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From the water to the pan now thats fresh  |
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FoldCatOne Full Grown Flour Bluffian
Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 1159 Location: Kerrville
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Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:39 am Post subject: |
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Some of us are old and our tastebuds need some help. Extra flavor never hurts. _________________ Gary J
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Tyler Site Admin

Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12865
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deputydawg Full Grown Flour Bluffian

Joined: 17 Mar 2010 Posts: 1991 Location: Humble
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Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 9:43 am Post subject: |
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Sounds like they might make things a little easier and quite possibly better! I might try them. Thanks for the tip!  |
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Big John Full Grown Flour Bluffian

Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 2647
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Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 10:00 am Post subject: |
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| Skillzzz9 wrote: | | To get that extra umph of flavor I usually boil the bones/shells to extract all the flavor. Reducing that boil will do the trick every time. |
This right here is the trick.
When you peel shrimp, put everything in a pot, boil for 10 to 15 minutes, strain, and then reduce the liquid by at least half. With fish, the head, skin, bones, etc, but leave out the guts. Same process.
You can also add just a touch of Knorr Chicken bullion powder to any recipe for half the required salt content, and you get more depth of flavor without it tasting like chicken.
And for Pete's sake, use real butter when you cook, not margarine. |
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SaltyMutt Member White Shrimper Boot Club

Joined: 12 Feb 2012 Posts: 629 Location: Corpus Christi
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Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 12:43 pm Post subject: |
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| ironmanstan wrote: | I don't want my home cooked food to taste like a resturant. Mine is better. I think the resturants are using that stuff to try and get that home cooked taste.  |
X2 _________________ I like fishies |
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gonefishing Flour Bluffian in training

Joined: 27 Dec 2007 Posts: 335 Location: Corpus Christi, TX
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Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 9:18 am Post subject: flavored oil |
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| You can also fry your shrimp shells in cooking oil to create a very flavorful oil. It is amazing how much flavoring the shells release. |
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