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[was_tansu_now_badhedgehog]

I am not buying eel again.

Bastard bloody eel.

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[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

What happened with the eel?

[tansu.livejournal.com]

It had too many bones in it, and the skin wouldn't come off, and Pablo Neruda vastly overplays the pleasures of Chilean conger eel chowder.

BAH!

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that eel was supposed to be skinned. Every time I've ever eaten it, it had the skin on.

Bugger me, you live and learn.

[tansu.livejournal.com]

Why are you assuming you're in the wrong? I could equally have been misguided to try to skin the bits of eel.

As it was, the recipe said "eel, skinned".

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

I guess it's like chicken - sometimes you skin it, sometimes not.

Mind you, most of the eel I've had has been in SE Asian dishes, where the skin is considered the good bit on a fish.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

I though you hated eels already, on account of the two Es?

[shatteredskins.livejournal.com]

Is that a Moomin I see?

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Not only is it a Moomin, it's a knitted Moomin.

[shatteredskins.livejournal.com]

Eeee!

[tansu.livejournal.com]

I did and still dislike the spelling. And I'm not keen on the look of eels themselves.
I saw some conger eel steaks in the fish section of Morrissons and bought them on an "ooh, interesting fish!" whim. I looked up a recipe online and made conger chowder which was OK but not fabulous.

[piemancer]

Hm. I don't groove on eel acuz it's so fatty. It may have been how it was prepared, though. I am ignorant in the way of eel, and i admire you for getting the wild hair to prepare it yourself.
Everything i know about eel in the western tradition, though, is Rendall, My Son. An' I aint too sure about that.

But i had a similar "Skin, rrr! Bones, rrr!" experience last time i had rattlesnake. I am not buying rattlesnake again. Bastard bloody shitwanking rattlesnake.

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

We like not the eel and its tiny disgusting bones.