01-12-2025, 11:13 PM
Sorry for the hi-jack. Just wanted to make the point that "When you're not with the fish you love...love the fish you're with." And I think the OP agrees with that.
By the way...although carp is a 4 letter word in Utah, these fish can be good eating too. Gotta prep em right and deal with the bones but properly cooked they can be incredibly edible. Millions of other folks around the world can't all be wrong. I've eaten it several ways but if you get the fish from a reasonably clean watershed it works well in many recipes. When I lived in Sacramento, I replaced my customary stash of smoked salmon and steelhead with some freshly smoked carp before my buddies came over for TV football. They hit the smoked carp and pronounced it to be some the best smoked salmon I had produced. Go figure.
By the way...although carp is a 4 letter word in Utah, these fish can be good eating too. Gotta prep em right and deal with the bones but properly cooked they can be incredibly edible. Millions of other folks around the world can't all be wrong. I've eaten it several ways but if you get the fish from a reasonably clean watershed it works well in many recipes. When I lived in Sacramento, I replaced my customary stash of smoked salmon and steelhead with some freshly smoked carp before my buddies came over for TV football. They hit the smoked carp and pronounced it to be some the best smoked salmon I had produced. Go figure.