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Post by traveler63 on Jul 23, 2009 21:46:27 GMT
Have any of you every had any experience with razor clams?? These are very interesting clams and they are found on Washington and Oregon coastlines. They are fast little buggers if you are trying to dig them. They may be found other places but I only know them from when we lived in Oregon. We would have them fried on in fritters. To fix and eat, you need to make sure you don't cook too long boy they get rubbery very fast.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2009 21:54:53 GMT
I know the name but have never eaten one.
Rubbery does not deter me, since I like squid.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jul 23, 2009 22:49:35 GMT
We had razor clams as part of an assorted seafood supper, one night in Luarca, Asturias, October, 2002. It was in a bar along the curving harbor shore. They looked interesting but they weren't especially good. Definitely rubbery. The various anchovies were good. I'm not sure what the loose, yellowish stuff is. Maybe onion confit?? (They wouldn't have called it that, in any case.) Razor clams, upper right.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2009 0:12:10 GMT
What's the bright RED stuff on the plate DC?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 24, 2009 0:45:40 GMT
I'm positive that is pimento.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2009 0:49:05 GMT
It looks so NEON.
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Post by traveler63 on Jul 24, 2009 1:26:45 GMT
It's either piemento or roasted red peppers, which isn't that the same thing?
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Post by hwinpp on Jul 24, 2009 2:00:45 GMT
The razor clams in T63's pic look slightly different from the one in DC's pic. A bit shorter and squarer. Are you sure they're the same? I know the ones in Dc's photo. I'll get some pics from when I'm in Saigon. I quite like them, chewier than other molluscs, I'd agree.
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Post by cigalechanta on Jul 24, 2009 2:36:15 GMT
I had them in the Camargue
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Post by hwinpp on Jul 24, 2009 2:57:59 GMT
I'm a bit annoyed I can't get them here, I like them that much. And we're just 5 hours away from the coast. Looks like Cambodians don't eat them.
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Post by traveler63 on Jul 24, 2009 3:15:55 GMT
My picture is indicative of the razor clams that are harvested in Washinton State and Oregon. Colder water than DC, may have an impact on what they look like. However the picture is exactly like what I have harvested when we were in a coast city in Oregon. Hope that helps
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Post by hwinpp on Jul 24, 2009 3:33:29 GMT
Yeah, you're probably both right. Google images gives me this (T63's) and this (DC's and mine) The slightly different shapes might indeed have to do with water temps, geograpgic location etc. And while searching just now I realised I made a mistake in naming my favourite shellfish here. They're not clams but cockles! 1.50USD for a kilo of big cleaned ones ;D
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 24, 2009 4:49:13 GMT
I hope y'all are happy. Thanks a big fat bunch for the earworm.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jul 24, 2009 13:00:28 GMT
I'm positive that is pimento. Sí, tienes razón. Es pimiento.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2009 13:37:52 GMT
A local beach here has thousands of clams, it's hard not to step on them. The kids have kept them as pets before!
Here is a really funny scene from the movie 'Mr. Bean's Holiday', he's in a French restaurant: ;D
Link:
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 24, 2009 15:37:56 GMT
They kept them as pets?! ;D Wonder if your boys will grow up to become:
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2009 18:11:52 GMT
yes, unfortunately they don't last long outside of their own environment.
Funny picture!
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Post by cigalechanta on Jul 25, 2009 0:06:43 GMT
another thing I love in the Camarge are tellines, they are tiny clams the size of tour thumb nail
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 25, 2009 1:14:02 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2009 1:16:55 GMT
;D They ate them all? Legs an all? I wonder if Mr. bean would have done it better.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2009 2:08:38 GMT
In talking to my mother today I was able to get her to reminisce about harvesting bay scallops. I had a vague recollection of it ,but wanted more specifics. (I really enjoy being able to hear her speak fondly of what I know to have been a good time in her life). They would go out into the bay at low tide with waders on. The water no more than chest high. Tied to their waist were wooden framed glass bottomed square boxes of about 3x4 foot dimension. They would place the squares on the bay bottom in the areas they thought there to be scallops and would then scoop them up and place them in a wire basket. The scallops sit on top of the sand unlike clams that are under the surface of the sand.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 25, 2009 4:20:32 GMT
Correct me about this please ~~ aren't scallops just that round bit of muscle holding the creature to it's shell? There's a piece like that in oysters, the part that gets severed from the shell so the oyster can be eaten. Why is just that one bit eaten of scallops?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2009 5:12:23 GMT
That is considered to be the prime element, but the other pink part is eaten in France, too.
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Post by auntieannie on Jul 25, 2009 15:05:53 GMT
I love seafood/shellfish, but rarely eat it. it is a treat!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2009 14:00:34 GMT
I am indulging in all the local seasonal aforementioned treats a la Don C. ,with clams being a very close second to scallops. Although,last evening's dinner of sea scallops stir fried with seven million snow peas was sorely disappointing compared to the bounty of bay scallops served up at a friends earlier in the week. The cherrystone clams on the half shell are perfect right now.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2009 14:06:45 GMT
Well, hurry up because you'll be back to those nasty blue crabs, Gulf shrimp and oysters, crawfish, etc., soon and it is sure to be pure misery.
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Post by fumobici on Sept 19, 2009 17:29:44 GMT
I think I live in shellfood heaven here, the mussels, oysters, clams, abalone, crab etc. are all superb and available very fresh. But the king of local shellfish is undoubtedly the regal geoduck (say gooeyduck). I won't post a photo as they look rather obscene but they are sublime. The odd thing is they are probably more eaten in Japanese sushi places than they are here locally.
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Post by lagatta on Sept 19, 2009 19:12:31 GMT
I have a friend in BC who thinks they are utterly disgusting. Just a big slug. I've never eaten one.
Confess that I'm a failure as a foodie as I don't like raw oysters, clams etc. Don't like the texture, though I do like raw fish. Like them very much if poached, fried etc.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2009 18:55:18 GMT
Mussels are the only one I have "trouble" with,I will eat but not seek out like clams etc.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2009 9:09:12 GMT
Frankly, mussels are one of my absolute favorites and quite likely the seafood that I eat the most often besides fish.
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