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Sunday, June 2. 2019

A New England classic: Shad Bake, reposted


I had the delight of attending a Connecticut Shad Bake on Sunday after a day of trout fishing.  My pic above of shad (with lardons) on planks, with a tray of shad roe above. Shad roe is a special food for us.  Shad Bakes are done on rough planks over an open wood fire.


Some pics of somebody else's Shad Bake.  Yes, you nail the filets on the planks. The only seasonings are salt and pepper.


Shad are anadromous fish which migrate up rivers to breed in April and the beginning of May. The jolly bake I was invited to attend had Connecticut River shad, expertly-boned (few people know how to filet a Shad) along with whatever sacks of roe that the female Shad contained.


Nice outdoor party, in the woods by a large pond. Seemed like I had two degrees of separation from people I met there. 


Serve it up with beer, cole slaw, potato salad,  and strawberry shortcake for dessert. 

Posted by Bird Dog in Food and Drink at 16:11 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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Reminds me of the old joke about the fellow visiting Boston who said to the taxi driver when asked his destination. "I want to get scrod."
#1 Mike K (Link) on 2018-05-24 20:52 (Reply)
"Pal, I've got to congratulate you. I've heard that question a lot over the years, but that's the first time I've ever heard it in the pluperfect subjunctive." That made me laugh!
#1.1 snopercod on 2019-06-02 17:26 (Reply)
Shad is tasty fish, the roe doesn't do much for me, can take it or leave it.
#2 Seppo on 2018-05-24 21:00 (Reply)
looks scrumptious .
#3 la on 2018-05-24 23:08 (Reply)
Is it like Gefilte fish?
#4 Ron Liebermann (Link) on 2018-05-24 23:47 (Reply)
mmm . . . do you know that there are highways in Washington State (high up in the mountains) where there are highway department traffic signs showing a black fish crossing the highway. If you Google "fish crossing highway signs" you will see many pictures of salmon actually trying to swim across the highways. The water running off the mountains into the streams they are swimming up confuses the fish and they take the wrong turn, many of them get run over by cars. Terrible waste of wild salmon.
#5 apple pie on 2018-05-25 00:22 (Reply)
If this is the same type of shad that are in the Missouri River, when I was a child the fishermen would throw them on the bank to let them die (cruel I know). When I would ask my father why he said they couldn't be eaten, too bony.
#6 JC on 2018-05-25 07:57 (Reply)
Bacon - is there anything it cannot do? It all looks great.
#7 tim ferrell on 2019-06-03 04:53 (Reply)

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