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Ltppowell: My friends and I were staying on a smaller commercial fishing boat off of Kodiak and Afognak Islands for a week and the fresh caught barbecued Halibut Cheeks were simply outstanding!
I had never eaten these Halibut Cheeks before - sublime!
We were sport fishing and caught fresh King Salmon (both white and orange fleshed species) as well as Halibut and Crab!
We also had fresh Shrimp on board as appetizers.
I must have gained 10 pounds that week - if we weren't fishing we were eating fresh seafood - breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Can't wait to do that trip again.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

I'm not even sure where to go with this. We have people speaking of "Grandma" and showing an assortment of Yoga pants camels that somehow just don't fit in the same thread.


I'll go with eland ribeyes over the coals with a cold Tusker in safari camp.

Back cod at Rasika restaurant in Washington DC

Unagi at Shiros in Seattle

grilled oysters in New Orleans

khachi Pori in Georgian restaurant in Moscow

lobster bisque up in Maine.


Canadian shore lunch fried walleye, hashbrowns, fried bannock bread, green beans, leinis beer

And of course any back strap from deer, elk or moose

lobster in Hawaii

As others have said, it's hard to choose but two that jump out at me:

As a kid, moose steak seasoned with salt and pepper only.

As an adult, antelope back strap. That is delicious!

Forgot this one. My great-grandmother used to make homemade noodles. I can remember helping her a number of times. Rolling them out, sitting them on linen towels, folding them over and cutting thin strips of noodles. Make chicken and noodles with them and they were phenomenal.

I keep seeing posts like this. Every time we've tried to eat meat that has not gone out of rigor yet, its tasted ok, but been very tough. And I prefer to have my meat on the rare side of rare FWIW....

I"ll never try wild game ever again, IE deer/moose etc... unless its been aged at least 48 hours preferably 10 days or more depending...

Hmmmmm.....the one on the upper left looks vaguely familiar. Now, let's see..........

Pizza and Lemon Meringue Pie
best drink was well water from the place where my kids grew up

most fun might be fresh caribou around an Alaskan camp fire

Crispy duck at Crescent City Brewhouse in New Orleans. I went back two years later and ordered it again, and it was still the best thing I've ever tasted.

The crawfish pie at Stinky's outside of Destin Florida can come close though.

I had a bison prime rib steak at a place called the powder house in the black hills, 2008 or 2009 I think.

That's the first thing that comes to mind with the question from the OP.

I took a picture of it.

Without a doubt Grandma's fried chicken Sunday dinner. Never been so satisfied since.

Honorable mentions to fresh: ripe white peach off the tree, snook, dungeons crab.
Had some exceptional dinners in Switzerland and Germany.
Lastly, KFC after living off the land in Kauai' for 3 plus weeks.

To many choices, but oysters Kilpatrick comes readily to mind !

Lot's of great choices mentioned. Two of my favorites: 1. Shrimp and cheese grits and 2. Hog Snapper.

Just can't top this. Great choices.

I can handle good fried catfish and hushpuppies about 350 days a year. Fried crappie or speckled trout about 356 days a yeat.

But, i change my mind on the best tasting stuff to mangos, good fried oysters, and king crab. I never got good fried oysters in a resturant or from a supermarket. If they arent fresh from the bay (preferably Matagorda Bay) i can say most people dont know what good oysters are.

Fresh fried shrimp are a favorite, fried in cornmeal for about 1 minute. Most people overcook until they are a little tough and chewey. I never had good fried shrimp in a resturant, either.

I do detect the unusual taste it seems only lobster has but it has never done anything for me.

Otoh, i cant really tell if king or dungess are the best.

Lot of guys could have me put them on a bunch of wild hogs for those things, or smo k ed salmon .

Jeff, ive gotten to where i dont even care for fresh doe tenderloin. I want it aged and aired out and then its great.

A meal I was privileged enough to enjoy many times: fresh elk tenderloin wrapped in home smoked bacon - served rare -with brookies caught fresh out of Big Blacktail creek and my mile-high buttermilk biscuits. Eaten around a huge campfire shared with 8-10 of the best people on planet earth.

Now, My chitty old knees won't let me go up and down the basement stairs let alone the Rockies. Make memories while you can!

I will still take that apple pie finisher.

I don't know how I had forgotten, but it came to me; pan fried quail by my Aunt Vera Jean,or a hot dog at the ball park, preferably a World Series from either behind/just off home or between home and first no deeper than 3rd row box seats. Fried eggs over easy, bacon, grits, all cut and mixed into one big plate of goodness.