Palm Frond Kelp and Gooseneck Barnacles

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lowviz

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I enjoy seaweed in my diet. The diversity is amazing, colorful, tasty, and supposedly good for you. I just ran across a recipe for pickling palm frond kelp, banchan style. The search for palm frond kelp is on!

Hmmm, looks like it is not a sustainable food:

Postelsia - Wikipedia

Which brings me to this post. Gooseneck barnacles came up during my search for that seaweed as they both live in similar tidal conditions. Now I'm interested in gooseneck barnacles. Below is a good video of them being responsibly harvested:



And this for background reading:
Budding Barnacle Bonanza | Hakai Magazine


Anyone have experience with either?
 
My family loves looking at tidepools, but I taught my kids early on that the best sign that you're standing where you should not be, is that you're standing next to Postelsia. As far as eating it, or eating gooseneck barnacles...gross!
 
My family loves looking at tidepools, but I taught my kids early on that the best sign that you're standing where you should not be, is that you're standing next to Postelsia. As far as eating it, or eating gooseneck barnacles...gross!
Percebes (a type of Gooseneck Barnacle) is a delicious but extremely expensive delicacy in Galicia area in the north west of Spain.

They take a bit of practice to eat, but are worth the effort. As long as someone else is paying. Think over $100 a serving in a real fancy restaurant. I was lucky enough to have them served at a group dinner where the majority refused to try them. It took a couple of us a while to scarf them all down. Yum!

I am unsure how your version of the Barnacle compares to the Spanish version. The Oregon ones shown in the link below do not appear to be the same thing as Spanish Percebes (they are way too huge). But at $106 a pound why not order a few pounds?

Shop Percebes Fresh Wild Goose Barnacles Online | La Tienda
 
You guys may think it is gross.... but is it soooo delicious. You can get good ones in the Galician region of Spain, northwest corner of the country close to the border with Portugal. Is too bad they are so ridiculously expensive. Oh and they are like chips, once you get going you want more and more, so it isn't like you can just get 200 grams or so, anything less than a couple of pounds (or a kilo) you'll be sad.

Shop Percebes Fresh Wild Goose Barnacles Online | La Tienda

Granted when I go visit my family, there's always a cousin that "knows a guy"
 
Yeah, super-expensive delicacy. Nevertheless, if Americans take to eating what the Spanish call percebes, I might get a second job as a hull cleaner.
 
Yeah, super-expensive delicacy. Nevertheless, if Americans take to eating what the Spanish call percebes, I might get a second job as a hull cleaner.

I don't know, the stuff that grows off my floating dock is not edible. Not only that, the barnacles from other areas in Spain are not it.. I'm Basque, we have the best anchovies, along other really good tasting fish, but when it comes to shellfish (including percebes of course) the coast of Galicia is THE place. Don't even try with the Mediterranean coast, they may have great things but the Atlantic coast rules.
 
@Ana , after I posted that it occurred to me there are likely many species of barnacles other than gooseneck. I can only hope to visit Galicia someday.
 
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I don't know, the stuff that grows off my floating dock is not edible. Not only that, the barnacles from other areas in Spain are not it.. I'm Basque, we have the best anchovies, along other really good tasting fish, but when it comes to shellfish (including percebes of course) the coast of Galicia is THE place. Don't even try with the Mediterranean coast, they may have great things but the Atlantic coast rules.
The restaurants feeding me shrimp here in Sicily may not agree? They are served both raw and cooked.

"Only marine life of the finest lineage swim in the southwestern region of Sicily."

Red Prawns Of Sicily: Exquisite Shellfish Choice | By Marini's
 
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