Tell me how to learn how to love sardines

Alton Brown eats avocado and sardine sandwiches.

Become a seal. :sick:

Alton Brown eats avocado and sardine sandwiches.

Alton Brown is a gross *kitten*.

don't talk that way about my man-crush

Brand and packing matter. I've had awesome sardines and I've had sardines that were so awful (and covered in hard scales!) that it was even impossible for the cat to eat them. Good sardines can be eaten right out of the can without needing anything...

amazing

I only buy the kind in olive oil, double rows of them, smaller ones... those are the tastiest.

Any food that you consume every day will slowly become normal. Anything, no matter how foul it tastes, will lose that foulness.

You just have to eat one mouthful today, two mouthfuls tomorrow, and the whole thing the next day.

Mash the sardines and eat with salt - keep adding salt till it tastes good - on cream crackers. Or in a lovely sandwich with fresh bread and real butter.

But always salt. They are dreadful without salt, as dreadful as porridge without salt.

In 'tomato sauce and comes in 155g can I think, I only buy the Ligo brand, green or red does not matter. I know it's not just me but my 1 yr old baby loves it too.

Don't eat it straight from the can sometimes it could be gross unless you chop fresh tomatoes and raw onion rings then sprinkle with fresh lemon that would be awesome.

Usually I follow this recipe:
chop some garlic, onion, and tomatoes.
saute the garlic then onions, then tomatoes. Crush the tomatoes so they juice out.
pour in the can of sardines splitting the sardines in half to get flavor in to the fishes.
add soy sauce, black pepper and sugar.
enjoy over a cup of steaming wild rice.

I like Spanish sardines too even when cold straight from the jar either with crackers, bread, or rice.

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Plug your nose, try not to vomit, feed them to your dog and bake up some salmon.

when i was a kid my mum used to cut a slice of bread into 1/4,s. top with sardines and tomatoe and grill them
..nice little bite size toastie snacks,

I can't tell you how to love tinned sardines, because they are horrible! But here's what you do with fresh sardines....

Start with sardine fillets, not whole fish ( no major bones - maybe some little ones!). You can fillet whole fish yourself if you are handy with a knife but it's very time consuming
Mix about 1/4 cup flour, a good dash of extra virgin olive oil, juice & zest of 1 lemon in a bowl. You should have a fairly runny batter.
Dedge the fillets in this, then grill them, turning once until they're golden brown. Really, really good.

There are some really interesting posts for different ways to eat sardines that I'll be trying in the future but I grew up eating them one way...if you want to try them, I remember my dad would buy them in olive oil. BE SURE TO TAKE OUT THE BONES - YUCK - break them up, put them on a plate, with a side of mustard, finely chopped onions, and yes, hotsauce...put a little of all of the above on a cracker and have something yummy to drink (preferably fizzy) and it makes for good snacking...hope you enjoy!

when i was a kid my mum used to cut a slice of bread into 1/4,s. top with sardines and tomatoe and grill them
..nice little bite size toastie snacks,

this sounds good!

I looooooooooove sardines, I never ate them before I came here. I got a can as a "here, you need some food to get you started" gift on my arrival, which I opened dubiously but was soon consuming enthusiastically. I just like them out of the can on bread with a little butter, but I love all these recipes that have been posted for dressing them up a bit.