Playoff's Smoked White Fish Dip & Grilled Buffalo Shrimp

[gunner]

The wife and I are in the middle of  "dry january", so no drinking which is pretty BORING, especially with all these great play off games. On top of that, we aren't eating meat in January which = DOUBLE BORING (but we are eating fish and shellfish). Needless to say, it's tough to come up with meal ideas, but we both feel great, and it's nice to restart the system at the beginning of the year. We make chicken wings a lot, so decided to do a play on that, and made some grilled buffalo shrimp and smoked white fish dip for appetizers to eat while watching the playoff games.

Did the snake method with some cherry wood chips, and smoked the fish for about an hour at 200-210 degrees.



I had the shrimp marinating in Frank's hot sauce for a couple hours then dredged them in flour, egg, then panko and let them set for a half hour.


While the shrimp were setting up, I pulled the fish off, and fired up a full chimney of charcoal. While the chimney was going I mixed up the smoked fish with cream cheese, chopped green onion, capers, fresh lemon juice, horseradish and tobasco sauce. Threw the shrimp and smoked white fish dip on the grill for about 15 minutes at 450 degrees, flipping the shrimp half way through the cook.


When the shrimp and smoked fish dip was pretty much ready, I grilled up some sliced baguette drizzled with olive oil to spread the dip on.


Everything off the grill and ready to eat! We served some carrots, celery, blue cheese dressing and Frank's red hot sauce with the buffalo skrimps.




Everything turned out amazing! Hope everyone is having fun watching the games 

[1buckie]

Pretty danged interesting for "just another boring, no meat appetizer" deal !!!!

[Golly]

great work on the grub

not too sure on the dry january tho lol

[Tim in PA]

Those shrimp look great!

[BBcue-Z]

Looks really good and I do like those shrimp!!

[aguyindallas]

Dry January AND no meat? That's too much for me to handle at once.

But....looks like you are making the best of it!


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[MrHoss]

Good looking cook...and....January is two thirds over.

[gunner]

Dry January AND no meat? That's too much for me to handle at once.

Thanks for the comments everyone! Yeah we did bite off a little more than we can chew this time...we usually do just the dry January every year, but this year we threw in the no meat. It has been tough, but it really makes us come up with new dinner and lunch ideas. I found a veggie meatloaf recipe that I ended up cooking on a kettle and it was AWESOME. Made some black bean burgers on the grill, lots of grilled shrimp and veggies and stuff like that. I miss the meat, but I really miss bacon the most! 

[blieb]

Why do you torture yourself?!

As far as I'm concerned, a good fish dip is worth its weight in gold!

[SixZeroFour]

That all looks really good gunner!