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What do I do with this whole pickled herring?

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#1 Kat Tanaka Okopnik

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Posted 09 June 2011 - 11:34 PM

I just received a whole pickled herring. (As a substitute for a dozen Oreo cookies. Yes, you should boggle.)

I love pickled herring, but I've never encountered it 'en situ', as it were.
I have the "what to eat with it" part handled. (I'll be making bagels tomorrow.)


What's the right thing to do with this? Cut across the spine, into mini-steaks? Filets


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#2 Mjx

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Posted 10 June 2011 - 12:53 AM

Cut it into the sorts of pieces you'd like to find on your bagels! Even if there are general rules, and you somehow transgress them, I doubt anyone will break down your door, and haul you off to a forced labour camp with lousy food :wink:. Mini filets sound about right, though, it's how I've pretty much always seen it, packaged in shops.
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#3 OliverB

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Posted 10 June 2011 - 09:22 AM

I'd try to filet it as well, or is it all deboned? Then steaks would work, or just little chunks to put on your bagel. Sounds yummy!
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#4 Kat Tanaka Okopnik

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Posted 12 June 2011 - 08:52 PM

I have found that it's simple so soft that all I have to do is pierce the skin appropriately and peel it off the bone.

It is, indeed delicious, and I have switched from bagels to Japanese rice with crisp nori.

However, now I am eyeing what I presume is a fat liver, and wondering if I can eat that.

#5 rarerollingobject

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Posted 12 June 2011 - 09:07 PM

However, now I am eyeing what I presume is a fat liver, and wondering if I can eat that.


If it doesn't taste or smell acrid or funky, I'd eat the hell out of it.. But that's just the way I roll. :cool:





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