That's a very unappetizing name for it

if you use a plastic bag in a bowl , you have both no dishes and you gather up and squeeze the air out zip or tie off with a loose knot and you can use a lot less milk as well.

That is interesting!

Great tip; thanks!

Well they call a crappie a bag of milk. That's what sac a lait means.

^^^^^ …. White perch lol

Yeah lil bro if you never had one a courbullion is great , nice little cooking experience too I'll copy and paste the post I did of the first one I did here in a second

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So on this episode of " it's 12a.m and I'm cooking something I'm clueless about" gonna try to make catfish and shrimp courtbullion....why ? Idk popped up on my YouTube feed watched like a 5min video and been wanting to try it ever since, because baked or fried fish gets kinda old , and we got some stuff we need to get rid of to make room.
Anyhow what is the stuff.


Seemed about like a seafood gumbo but with a tomato base and fish . Could of different was to go about it so idk just trying stuff , and it's a lil pot.
So half a green bell pepper that been in the fridge a whole onion

Lil flour lil erl

Mix for my roux ...and this was a lil confusing because some say you need a blonde some say you need a dark ...I went with like a half and half

Veggies

Let those cook down and soften some then tomato paste....took 5min to figure out how to open it , swear your supposed to just squeeze these and the lids pop off and you push the whole lil cylinder out but guess not. Anyhow

Annnnd that's neat just makes a big glob... You're also supposed to use some kinda stewed tomatoes or Rotel....but I hate chunk tomatoes and this is my pot so....yeah no

And again some say use vegetable juice/ stock , some say sea food....idk all we had was chicken and beef so chicken it was

Then some water and the usual stuff. Seems the usual gumbo seasoning are right


Now also added some crab boil like I do with most of my sea food stuff and this smells AMAZING. Think it would make a decent pasta sauce honestly

And just scraping off the erl as it comes up


Annnnd just gonna let that cook down a bit

We just had a bunch of them for lunch. Didn't give them any special treatment. We call them "welfare walleyes" at our house.

So these are some "catfish" fillets from Kroger we been had..... They're....idk really really firm but just cut them a little smaller

And some shrimp that have been thawing in water mixed with crab boil


Annnnd into the ...sauce ? Soup ? Stew ? Think it's in the same class as a gumbo , and no gumbo it's into own thing it's not stew or soup I WILL DIE IN THIS HILL

And let that just sit and cook for a while , shrimp cooks faster so I'll ad that last


About five min later stuff temped at 140 so then shrimp


Aaannnd boom about 5-7 min later

I hate those paste cans. Best that I've come up with is cut top and bottom and push it out. Also what if you need less than a whole can? For that I buy the stuff that comes in toothpaste type tubes, just squeeze out what you need. Between you me and the fence post I know tomatoes don't go in gumbo but no one will ever know about that little squeeze that went in with the trinity. Not that I know anything about that of course.

Thanks!

That catfish courtboullion looks super tasty! I'll have to try that sometime!

Nice! I've only ever smoked drum before, so having them fried will be a new experience for me

Where did you catch him at? What town.

I cleaned a pile of sheephead when I was younger and we ran setlines. My Dad smoked the majority of them. Of course that's 35 to 40 years ago. We used to get some big ones on the lines. The small ones like what you got there are fine to eat. It's just a lot of people give them a bad rap and I'm not sure why.

We call them Silver Bass here. They got a bad rap for table fare. I never ate one, and never will. Seen a few posted by some Chinese people and they sliced the side of the fish and placed orange slices in them and laid some sort of green vegetable on top of it.
Fried in the pan whole with head on lol.

Not for me!

They are fun to catch though!

Hardly anyone eats them here and you can catch them by the hundreds a day in lake Erie and it's tributaries.
Prayers sent

Right by the dike in Hudson. (St Croix river)