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shari
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San Roque bound for Abalone Season
WOOOOO HOOOO...we're off to my favorite place in the galaxy...San Roque. Juan started fishing abalone on Monday up San Pablo way so we will be living
at the cabin in SR for a couple weeks....so anyone heading our way...come out and visit us there (ab dinners on saturdays!)...turn up at the police
station...bring beer!!
[Edited on 6-9-2009 by shari]
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Sounds like a nice mini-vacation. ...with no Internet.
See you in about three weeks....
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San Roque Abalone is in season already? how big do thy have to be?
How far out to sea are they? or are they just sticking from the rocks?
Or do you freedive for them? Got any pics of them? man sounds like fun!
READY SET.....................
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There are 14 abalone pangas in Juan's cooperativa and they have a hooka setup in the pangas, with a diver, his tender and oarsman(boat driver) and
they pry them off the rocks. This is why the "vigilancia" patrols are so important to protect this resouce....they are easy to get to at low tide.
They get about 120 abs a day and I believe they have to be 6" and some are shipped out live as well as they are canned here.
The whole village is happy as this means there will be some cash flowing again so people can pay their bills. Although the prices are still very low,
I understand the government will be providing some funding for the fishery and the product will be held and sold later when the prices go up.
here is link to some photos of the process, click on slideshow in the upper left corner to see them big...pretty cool!
http://picasaweb.google.ca/sharibondy/AbaloneFisheryInBahiaA...
[Edited on 6-9-2009 by shari]
[Edited on 6-9-2009 by shari]
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Um I wish I was there, San Roque is my favorite spot as well. I might try mailing myself to Baja!
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Abalone. Yum. Breaded and sauteed in butter- double yum. I though it was very hard to get thse days. 20 years ago the Boathouse restaurant on
Habor Island in San Diego used to feature it. I think they would freeze it first to slice it thin before breading, fry it up and serve with more
butter for dipping.
Where does one find Abalone for sale in baja norte? I did ask about it once at a dock in Ensenada- and the guy rolled his eyes. I left empty handed
and thought it might be illegal in places (or at the time I asked anyways).
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Abalone is so expensive now that most restaurants have taken it off the menu but you can get it in season in some restaurants in this area of central
baja or you can buy it canned which is also delicious...the canning process makes it very soft....their head office is in ensenada so you should be
able to buy the canned product there.
For a real culinary delight....get Juan to cook ya up some of his specialty...pounded, breaded and cooked in garlic butter...to die for really!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
Abalone is so expensive now that most restaurants have taken it off the menu but you can get it in season in some restaurants in this area of central
baja or you can buy it canned which is also delicious...the canning process makes it very soft....their head office is in ensenada so you should be
able to buy the canned product there.
For a real culinary delight....get Juan to cook ya up some of his specialty...pounded, breaded and cooked in garlic butter...to die for really!
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Thanks Shari. Pounded thin- not sliced... that's the ticket.
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we slice then pound and can get about 5-6 good size cutlets from one ab. Each fisherman gets 4 abs a week to eat so that's enough to share with our
amigos who show up.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
Abalone is so expensive now that most restaurants have taken it off the menu but you can get it in season in some restaurants in this area of central
baja or you can buy it canned which is also delicious...the canning process makes it very soft....their head office is in ensenada so you should be
able to buy the canned product there.
For a real culinary delight....get Juan to cook ya up some of his specialty...pounded, breaded and cooked in garlic butter...to die for really!
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Kathy and I can attest to Juan's cooking skills as applied to abalone. It was excellent. Seems ironic to me that when my buddies and I were broke in
the 70's that we had lots of abalone and dungeness crab as well as all the fresh fish we wanted for almost nothing. We lived in a commercial fishing
port and had friends who were deckhands and boat owners. Now that we're older those things are a rare treat.
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San Roque
Stayed there last Feb. My new favorite place to stay in Baja on the Pacific side. Love that little place. We will be back in Oct/Nov for a week. Need
to catch tuna off my Kayak.
Might have tasted abalone when I was a kid. My grandfather had a house at newport beach and always had some fresh. But I dont remember what it
tastes like My Grandfather always screwed up what ever he was cooking anyway.
DAND
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Abalone is my absolute, no holds barred, favorite seafood of all. Used to get them at Santa Cruz Island in the 70's. Blacks were abundant but we
didn't waste our time with them. Pinks and Greens only because Reds were too deep.
I can't even find them canned anymore! I wish I could make it down as it would definitely be worth the trip but I just got back and fire season is
starting to pick up.
(Shari - Can you FedEx from GN to CA?)
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What happens to all the shells??? My wife makes jewelry and finding abalone shells is really difficult. I would think there should be plenty of them
around or do they export them as well.....
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Abalone at Catalina Island
Forty years ago, you could snorkel dive for them.
And yes, pound, pound, pound with a wooden mallet (making sure that the hovering wasps weren't pounded in also).
Breading and pan frying in butter, yum!
Those were the days, alas, no more.
GJ
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When I was a kid in the early sixties, I would go to a place called Bird Rock above Pacific Beach in San Diego, I had a inner tube with a gunney sack
around it hanging down, and would take a deep breath and go down with my ab iron which was a leaf spring off of a car, It had surgical tubing attached
to it so I didn't drop it, I would be able to pop 2 sometimes 3 on each dive there were so many, they were on top of each other.
OH Well those days are long gone, and they are soooooooooooooooo expensive even if you can find any. It is so funny going to the fish market and
people are asking for ABALONE and the guy says oh yes I have some, and he sells the KAUNCH, did ispell that right? anyway you get the drift.
I took the meat out of an ABALONE one time and there was a absolute image of JESUS imprinted in the shell, awesome sight, It got in the newspaper.
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Life is a dream in San Roque...the ab fishermen are getting 120 a day even though there is a pretty big swell and high wind so visibility isnt the
greatest but everyone is happy to be working.
The shells are sold also so not easy to get here either although you can find them on the beaches in some places.
I'm gonna make abalone sausage this weekend with what they trim off the abalone....real yummy....well, back to paradise...hasta luego.
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wow- great thread for us foodies. I knew I wasn't the only San Diego transplant who remembers abalone on menus at places like The Boathouse and
Rusty Pelican. It was never more than a chalkboard special, and was never cheap back then either - but oh, so good. Seems everyone does the
breading and sauteeing in garlic butter method. I was thinking about abalone but settled for some crispy calamari frito yesterday. You do the best
with what ya got!
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a couple decades or so ago, i would put my practice wife in our dinghy up in the san juan islands on a minus tide with a little garden scratcher and a
big screwdriver...she would get out on the nose of the dinghy and i'd row her in to the rocks on a minus tide...pull the kelp aside with the garden
scratcher revealing abs..pop em off with the screwdriver...abs in washington state..no more, methinks..i miss em.
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A 'good' price for imported abs here in San Diego is $86/lb.
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Wow, I've never tried abalone. I thought they were illegal and protected. At least, in San Diego you cannot take them.
Now I want to see what they taste like.
Bob H
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