Nova Scotia Halibut

The sultry days of summer sweep across the city and suddenly anyone who isn't condemned to sweating their culito off behind the line 24-7 makes a mad-dash to the beach.
What does this scarcity of diners mean for those of you holding it down the in kitchen? Epic brainstorms regarding menu items that will lure in summer customers. What you need is a real crowd pleaser, for example, Nova Scotia Halibut. Not only does EVERYONE AND THEIR MOTHER love this fish, but it is majorly abundant this time of year.


Halibut HALIBUT, do you have hAlibUt ? You know what I love? HALIBUT!

 Yea, guess what? I KNOW YOU LOVE HALIBUT. How about you shut up and eat the fluke? You wouldn't know the difference if I spelled it out across your plate in ketchup...:)

Here is a little Halibut History to get you PUMPED UP about cooking it all summer long:

Halibut wasn't always considered a delicacy. Halibut, like many other species of fin fish (skate and monk, for example) used to be known as a gross and lame junk fish, fit only for animals to eat! Hard to imagine now that we live in a world where people would surrender the monetary equivalent of their  first born to get their hands on its firm white flesh.
Halibizzles are homebodys, they don't migrate far from their origins. One curious and ambitious halibut once travelled 2,500 miles away from their home turf, but that was the farthest any lone halibut has dared to venture. Most choose to stay within the 1,000 mile range.
Certain research studies point to the Magdalen Shallows as a preferred area for Halibut reproduction. BOW CHICA BOW WOW (barf)!

Northwest of Nova Scotia, on the Eastern Seaboard of Canada: Magdalen Shallows, Breeding Ground for the Halibut

When these disgusting little halibut larvaes hatch, they swim belly down and their eyes are on both sides of their head. As they grow bigger and flatter the left eye migrates to the right side, along with all of the pigmentation in their bodies. This is the halibut we know and love to eat.
Halibut have an incredibly powerful concave tail with which they have been known to slap fishermen right in the grill, even after being gaffed. In some instances these ferocious blows can be life threatening. Fishermen are wary of these types of tussles, so they usually take a club to the poor old doober before hauling it aboard.

Read here about how Sarah Palin likes to club her Halibuts (Alaskan, that is) "right between the eyes" HEEEEYUCK!

 http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/sarah-palin-clubbing-the-halibut