Crappie cookin! What's your favorite way?

What's your favorite way to cook and eat'em? I've had them with Louisiana Bread crumbs and last night we did a beer batter and had them in Tacos. I'm sure this will be odd to some of you, but growing up in SoCal we would venture down to Ensenada in Baja CA. The street vendors sold fish tacos from the catch of the day. They were awesome and it was awesome to share a recipe we had from back in 1982 with my sons. They gobbled the tacos up like no tomorrow! "When can we go back out for more crappie? Maybe we can make this a weekly event until school starts back up?" <--- I LOVE IT! 18 & 15 years old.

Beer batter from our old recipe - which I'm sure if you search the internet, you can find one that makes your mouth water
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Corn tortillas warmed up on the griddle, slaw mix to make it easy, red onions and a sauce my mom gave me the recipe for. Nothing pretty, but your mouth doesn't care how it looks does it now?
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I will share the recipe once I get it into a word document to copy and paste.

I'm sorry I posted this here. I just found the cooking forum.

Andy's red then fried in a cajun fryer.

Skillet fried in yellow cornmeal & lots of black pepper.

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Originally Posted by Speck

Andy's red then fried in a cajun fryer.

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Just had batch of walleye and crappie pan fried with Andy's Red it was awesome.

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I like Louisiana no wet batter - very dry just par in Louisiana and fry quick

Makes it crispy

Also the Parmesan baked recipe is pretty good

Andys yellow, 335dg 3.5 min iron kettle, cold beer on the side.

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I just made this tonight and it turned out really good, actually. Nice change of pace. Normally, I vacuum seal my crappie and label with quantity, species, date, lake, name, Conservation number, sometimes little positive notes of encouragement or inspirational quotes, pictures....you know.

Anyway, this was a friggin' unlabeled ziploc bag from who knows where and God knows when. Had to get rid of that evidence 'fore the warden showed up and started in with questions!

Dang you stole my bag of fish.

Tried the fish tacos last night and wow they are good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:highfive

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Tried the fish tacos last night and wow they are good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:highfive

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Definitely different and tasty!

I have tried several of the recipes on CDC and love all of them. Try the crappie bisque which is outstanding especially with a cold frosty bottle of Busch Beer and crunchy bread. Plus add some shrimp to the recipe and it's even better. Baked parmesean will really thrill your friends who claim to not like fishy taste. Fish taco's are good but wouldn't use beer batter or even bisquick 7 up one as it makes too much breading on them IMO. Panko flakes or simply cornmeal/flour combo's are good and basic. Just try simple sauteed veggies in pan with olive oil/butter and then put crappie filets in late without anything but salt and pepper and it's awesome and very quick. use mustard or miracle whip instead of egg bath gives it different taste too.

We have had to change how we cook just about everything. Sheryl has had to change about everything in her diet. The good part is that she has lost 70 lbs and I have lost 65 lbs. The bad part is how to fry fish if you can’’t eat flour (gluten) or corn? Finally came up with this. We use a food processor to make oat flour out of Quaker Oats. Then we mix that with instant mashed potato flakes and season with seasoned salt and pepper. Makes a very nice breading. Haven’t tried it on venison yet but I think it will work. Just wondering if oat flour will make a good gravy.


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Congrats, you guys!! That's awesome! Did you go have one of them food alergy/sensitivity tests done?

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Congrats, you guys!! That's awesome! Did you go have one of them food alergy/sensitivity tests done?

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Yes. That’s just the start of it.
Wheat (gluten)
Corn
Soy
Dairy
Eggs
Sugar (pre diabetic) gone now.

We are able to add some things back in limited amounts so we use an egg wash but with coconut milk. And some dairy but not much.
If anyone else is fighting some of the dietary problems, send me a PM with your phone number and we will talk about some things she is doing outside of the box to make things more palatable. Mom doesn’t just know how to make cobblers, she is a serious cook and will play with a recipe until it’s right.


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Miss Sherie had done that test a while ago, and then my youngest son Sam. A few differences between them, but a lot of similarities. No soy for Sam, no dairy or eggs for either of them. Thankfully gluten didn't make the list so it is a lot easier. But I'm tellin' ya, Sher lost a lot of weight cuz of it and feels way better.

They're tryin' to get me to do the test but...I don't really want to know!! I'm afraid it will be beer and BBQ on the list!!

Tonight we did the fish taco thing. All fresh vegetables for ingredients, 'cept for the beer battered, deep fried (in coconut oil) fish. For the sauce we just did lime zest and lime juice (along with a few other spices) and vegan mayo and vegan sour "cream" and it made a fairly decent sauce.

Freakin' awesome.

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Tonight we did the fish taco thing. All fresh vegetables for ingredients, 'cept for the beer battered, deep fried (in coconut oil) fish. For the sauce we just did lime zest and lime juice (along with a few other spices) and vegan mayo and vegan sour "cream" and it made a fairly decent sauce.

Freakin' awesome.

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Nice! I was hoping to catch enough for a fish fry Saturday, but by the time we go to the water, that evening storm rolled in and well, nothing to brag about. I'm hoping to have my boat back by Friday so we can get out and search for some fish.

Fried in lard is the best.


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Took my buddy sailing yesterday. His inlaws are Chinese and live with him. He said about 30 seconds after getting home the fish were gutted, scaled and in the wok.Attachment 377368