Codfish cakes... possibly the best food ever fried

Does anyone else like these as much as I do? A little chewy, a little salty, a little fishy, and just so damn good.



I guess I have to make a batch this weekend now... Who wants some?

Fresh from the catch

hell, I'd step over anyone's mother for codfish cakes

I don't like my fish deep-fried, but Uncle Melvin's fish ...... mmmmmmmmmmmmm.

my Mother made the BEST fishcakes with codfish! Mashed potatoes, codfish, salt pepper, rolled in crumbs and deep fried, oh the memories. I'm hungry now!!


:)

I think I am going to make them and homemade beans this weekend.

:)


:rofl: I'll be there!

We always have a reserved seat at the McLargetable for guests should they drop in.

No, sadly I'm in Michigan, but I'll be there in spirit :)

New England always 'calls' to me and it's been years since I've been there. It must be my Scottish heritage, the ocean etc ....

I'm just dreamin'

:)

yum for us west coasters who get salmon. About the only way I like salmon, other than smoked. Cod ones look good too. yum.

fish cakes, fish cakes, rolly polly fish cakes, fish cakes, fish cakes, eat them up, yum!

Or salmon patties as we call them.

They were a regular staple, growing up. We used to always have them with mac n' cheese and peas.

Crab cakes are also yummy too!

In a cast iron skillet with peanut oil, coated with a garlic/herb/breadcrumb/potato/egg batter with a dash of cider vinegar. (You can put beer or hard cider in the batter to taste if you're making the "manly version" with no minors around....)
Served up with some red herbed potatoes and sugar snap peas made into something similar to a "country style hash brown".

MMMmmmmm...Just like mom used to make. :)

Haele

MMMMMMMMM
droooool

Do you use salted or fresh?

MMMMM!

You take some fillets (we use Perch, very abundant in the Great Lakes region) and you soak 'em, "marinade" if you will in a combo of butter, hot sauce (I use Frank's Red Hot, it's got more flavor than heat though), and some lemon juice. After a while, roll it in cornstartch and fry it up in some vegetable oil.

For the spice lovers, you get the flavor of the cayenne but for the non-spice lovers the lemon cuts the spice so all you really get is the flavor. It's quite delicious!

But I love fishcakes too.

I canNOT find it here in Michigan :(
The Erie Beach Hotel in Port Dover used to be (maybe still is) the best place for a perch feast. Erie perch is far superior (no pun intended re lake superior) to ocean perch. I don't care for ocean perch at all.

oh and celery bread, yum, Erie Beach perch and celery bread, now there's a piece of heaven for ya!

aA

I don't even know if I can buy cod here. I do salmon croquettes here, but I dont' know about codfish.

Please share your recipe.

Ingredients

One pound of salted cod
One pound of mashed potatoes (use chef's potatoes)
One medium onion finely diced
Kosher Salt
Black Pepper
2 TBSP Hot Chopped Red Peppers
1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup corn meal
enough vegetable oil to fill a skillet 1/2 way

Prepping the cod
Remove salted cod from box, rinse in cold water, and place in deep bowl of water overnight in refrigerator
Remove cod from water and rinse in cold water again (use collandar to hold the fish)
Boil salted cod for about 20 minutes

Peel and cook about a pound of potatoes and mash them (no milk or butter in potatoes) and place in big stainless steel bowl.

Saute one onion, finely diced, in olive oil. When onions are soft (not browned), add them to the potatoes.

Rinse fish after boiling (Be careful not to take too much of the water from the boiling pan as it's not probably very salty). Break fish down into chunks and mash chunks until the fish is sort of stringy almost the consistency of pulped paper.

Add fish to potatoes and onions. Stir in TBSP of Hot Chopped Red Peppers. Mix until finely blended (use a wooden spoon, not a mixer. A mixer will make it too starchy and soft)

Heat vegetable oil in skillet.

Add flower and corn meal
add pinch of Kosher salt, and black pepper to flour/corn meal mixture and blend

take about three TBSP of potato/fish mixture from bowl and pat into patty shape about a big as your palm.

Dip patty into corn meal/flower mixture. Make sure patty is coated.

Place patty into hot oil for about 1 minute on each side or until golden brown.

drain patty on paper bag

Repeat until entire potato/fish mixture is gone.

Serve with baked beans on the side.

I love fishcakes, and I didn't learn my mother's recipe. My mother used to make them and the salt cod came from those one lb. boxes. Your recipe looks very similar to the way she made them but hers never had hot peppers --- I think it was against the fire code to have them in Maine back then.

;-)

I am always happy to share recipes!

Beg me for My Dad's stuffed quahog recipe sometime!

Peppers in the codcake, now quahogs. I'm sensing a Portuguese connection...

One question test: pronounce 'chorizo.' Now use it in a sentence.


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I'd beg you for the quahog recipe but I'm 3000 miles from a good supply.

Chorizo sounds like "shorise" when spoken.

I'll have five pounds of chorizo, two pounds of linguica, and a quart of sopa galina, por favor. (throw in a case of Sumol fruit beverage, 2 six-packs of Sagres, and a bottle of homemade wine, and you got a party)

Portuguese immigrants settled in my area of SF but the cuisine hasn't had the same lasting influence. I can get decent linguica but not good Portuguese chorizo, no good sweet bread, etc. I have to seek that stuff out on my trips home to the East Coast.

There once was a man from..

never mind.

is in the New Bedford area. I grew up there and still visit family there often. Nothin' better than stuffies made with linguica. My grandfather used to make codcakes for lunch every Friday with salt cod - bacalhau

BTW - new around here, as my post totally clearly tells you. Just wanted to say hi.

I have friends and relatives from New Bedford.
:hi:

I'm in Fairfield Cty, CT - so I can still visit easily.

when I am in town. Girassol is the only in town that regularly serves Cabrito, and Polvo probably my two favorite dishes. Plus they have the NICEST waitresses.

had a great Kale soup!

fried cod fillet topped with hot relish served over potatoes... The owner if Cafe Europa is very nice too.

I'll try that the next time I go. You've got me salivating for some good seafood tonight!

Stewed goat with potatoes. It just might be the best thing ever cooked.

across the street from Folco Jewelers.

How'd I miss that???

:yourock:

I have already copied/pasted to a Word document, which I will print out and take to the store with me, so I buy the correct ingredients.

And I am cooking these at the firehouse this weekend. I'll let you know what the fire dudes think about 'em!

I used to love them. Haven't had one as an adult, so I don't know if I still do.

Growing up, you'd see them on the counter of just about every 7-11, Highs, even at gas stations. Just sitting on the counter all day next to crackers & mustard. Anytime I was out with my father, we'd have to get them. As an adult, the whole idea of eating them after they've been sitting out all day is nasty. But, supposedly, the coddies you get around here now are pretty much flavored cracker crumbs with no real cod in them.

Yes, I have enjoyed my fair share in my day. :9

THAT is some good eatin.
Duckie