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Posted on 21/04/23 08:31:39 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
When I was in France recently I went to the local market to buy seafood, as you do (well, as I do, anyway) and was intrigued by these curious critters. I asked the poissonnier what they were, and he told me they were pouce-pieds. It turns out they're known in English as gooseneck barnacles. Naturally, or perhaps unnaturally, I couldn't resist. He told me to boil them for just two minutes, then pull the claws off – the sheaths come with them – and eat the inside. They were interesting, if somewhat rubbery. Perhaps you could suggest a better way of cooking them? High res is here.  |
Posted on 21/04/23 09:41:03 AM |
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Mariner
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Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
Yes. Boil them in water to kill the germs, then throw them in the bin. |
Posted on 21/04/23 10:56:53 AM |
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Frank
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Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
Agree with Mariner - doesn't look very appetizing. |
Posted on 21/04/23 11:33:23 AM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
I must be on topic, I must be on topic, I must be on topic...oh hell!!! Oh great wonderous one (site owner) tell me...nay, instruct me how I can make this a legitimate entry? 
PS I can do you a lobster, I can do you a crab, and I could even do you a prawn! |
Posted on 21/04/23 11:37:35 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
You could always put them on wheels. |
Posted on 21/04/23 12:39:48 PM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
_________________ Have you ever noticed that all the instruments designed to detect intelligent life are pointing away from the Earth? |
Posted on 21/04/23 1:01:38 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5573 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
"He was a brave man that first eat the oyster."- Jonathan Swift. It's not very attractive but neither are sea urchins or razor clams or many of the crustaceans and they are delicious! I am a passionate cook and foodie (I don't drive, so what other men spend on luxury cars I spent on our professionally equipped kitchen). I live in a coastal country with more restaurants per capita than any other country in Europe. Wonderful fish merchants abound too, but I have never seen or heard of these before! They seem to belong further south. Somewhere I have an old Chinese VHS given to me by a chef which shows how to cook a bears paw and it looked disturbingly like this. For some odd reason I haven't actually tried it myself ........ The name translates literally as "thumb-foot" and one can see why. I did a bit of browsing and, as your poissonnier said, boiling water (usually seasoned and flavoured) for two to five minutes seems to be the norm. Apparently it needs a bit of practice to eat to avoid getting squirted by little jets of iodised water when pulling the sheath off. Maybe you found out? So much for reality ....... ....... now what the hell to do? _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 21/04/23 1:08:19 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
Yes well thank you Gordon. That's one of my thoughts gone already!!  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 21/04/23 1:21:01 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3136 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
That's funny Gordon... nicely done! |
Posted on 21/04/23 1:24:15 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3136 Reply |
Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
We use pouce-pieds here in Oklahoma to add some 'smoke' flavor to the real dinner...  |
Posted on 21/04/23 3:15:52 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5573 Reply |
Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
Two nights ago I watched the new NetFlix offering "Hunger". It's a Thai movie about a young woman chef whose talent is to be able to 'control the flame'. It's full of slow motion footage of her tossing food high in the air from her wok engulfed in huge sheets of flame. Here is a relatively modest example of her cooking pouce-pieds Thai style. 
Because it is so new there are very few images available yet. I am hampered by the size and quality of the original image here. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 21/04/23 4:56:08 PM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
Thanks David and Loyd. _________________ Have you ever noticed that all the instruments designed to detect intelligent life are pointing away from the Earth? |
Posted on 21/04/23 5:26:10 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5573 Reply |
Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
This is what total creative blackout and desperation looks like.  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 21/04/23 6:03:55 PM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
 _________________ Have you ever noticed that all the instruments designed to detect intelligent life are pointing away from the Earth? |
Posted on 21/04/23 6:47:16 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3136 Reply |
Re: Challenge 952: On Mars Too Long
Looks great to me David... I like it. 
I'm also having some blackout issues...lol. 
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Posted on 22/04/23 00:07:43 AM |
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lwc
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Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
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Posted on 22/04/23 2:36:27 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
Black Lagoon is great Loyd! _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 22/04/23 2:43:01 PM |
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DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
Because they have both inherited Dad's love of food and cooking I sent Steve's picture to my sons to see if they knew about these odd barnacles. One of them replied "It's strangely ugly and rather beautiful at the same time - very Yin Yang".  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 22/04/23 5:01:53 PM |
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josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
iirc in the middle ages they thought they actually grew into barnacle geese - which of course made it OK to eat goose on fast days because really they were a kind of fish ...
Not tempted by any of the offerings so far but love the film poster lwc and your yin yang symbol David _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 22/04/23 5:43:21 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3136 Reply |
Re: Challenge 952: Cook my pouce-pieds
Indeed...!
Thanks David and Josephine...! |
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