If you personally know me, you’d know how much I love seafoods. Lobsters. Shrimps. Fish. Seaweeds. Squids. Oysters. Crabs. Name it and my stomach will be all for it.There’s hardly a seafood dish I’ll snob – especially if its fresh (that’s why it’s always better to use locally produced seafoods because when fresh, the flavor is retained).
So anyway, tonight, when I viewed the entries of the five finalists of the 2008 Great American Seafood cook off , I would certainly love to try these dishes. What gastronomical pleasure it would have been if I could. I.am.drooling. already! *grin*
My favourite dish of the top five recipes listed is the Mississippi Redfish Courtboullion with Seafood Dirty Rice, which was created by Chef John Currence from Mississippi. It looks pretty at the very first sight. Besides, I’m a huge fan of shrimp. I’d like to try cooking it in various ways and the idea of making it with Seafood Dirty Rice sounds great. The idea of adding chicken livers is brilliant. I’ve cooked it back home, following the recipe. After it’s done, the great smell of onions, garlic and sauté filled the entire room and it’s really fabulous.
You may be wondering why the contest requires the chefs to use only sustainable, domestic seafood as a seafood source. Well, there is a good reason for that requirement. Right now many of the world's fisheries are being overfished, meaning that the fish are being caught and taken at such a high rate that the fish stock cannot recover. These depleted fish stocks do not just affect us as consumers; they affect the entire ecosystem. After all, humans are not the only living beings who eat fish. If we take away the fish, we take away the food source for many other species, including dolphins, whales, and seals.
Please take a moment to check out the cook off at www.GreatAmericanSeafoodCookOff.com, vote for your favorite recipe. You could win a New Orleans prize pack. You have until October 31 to vote. The winner of the New Orleans prize pack will be announced in mid-November. Good luck and enjoy the recipes.
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