Bacon Wrapped Tog Bites

Here's a fairly easy recipe I tried yesterday.

Cut the tog filets into 'scallop' sized pieces, wrap with a half strip of bacon and secure with a toothpick and place on a buttered foiled broiler pan. The picture is of 3 filets from ~16" fish. I cut out all the pin bones, red meat and fatty edge.




Use a food processor to puree an onion, shallot, garlic and habenero pepper, olive oil mix and then add a teaspoon or so to each wrapped piece.




Convection oven bake at 500F for 15' or until fully cooked.

Looks AWESOME!....I will definitely try that...thanks

Yumms

I think I need to grab a pound of bacon tomorrow!

Sounds great.

That looks like something Med would come up,with.....awesome Murph!! I think you should bring lots of them CTF events.......

Tried it tonight without all the toppings....wrapped them and them did some with Montreal Seasoning, some with Blackened Old Bay and some with fresh Cracked Black Pepper. They came out good, but since I didn't have a broiler pan, or a cookie sheet with a lip to catch the grease I used a square black metal baking pan. Since the pan had a 2" lip I couldn't get the bacon to crisp up even though I convection baked it at 500*F for 15+ minutes and then tried to crisp it on the Hogh Broiler for a few minutes. Still good, but could have been crispier bacon.

The bacon puts out a LOT of grease so I didn't bother greasing the pan.

The below is 2 fillets chunked up from a 20" Tog.....and used 1/2 a strip of bacon on each chunk.

CTF Rules - I can't wait to try this

Just remembered I still have 1 tog filet left (hey Don don't put the boat away yet!!!), so that will be next on the menu.
Thanks.

Plan to pull my boat tomorrow John....always a sad day, but had a great season.

A sad day indeed

Thank you again 100x for taking me out!!!

Seeing as I still have "A wish to catch some fish!" I'll probably do 1 maybe 2 more sea bass/cod trips. If you are interested let me know.

looking good, Don

Thanks for sharing that great idea Murph!

Can never go wrong with BACON!

I bet even Bacon Wrapped Bunker Bites would be great!

hit the bacon with a propane torch for a few seconds when they are done. it will crisp up almost instantly.

I had three pieces of bacon and no toothpicks so I had to move away from classic "bites" set up. some cakes for good measure.

Didn't you guys hear... FDA now says Bacon is ADDICTIVE.

They are working on developing a 12 step program. See you all there!

Combine Bacon with Tog... a known gate way food, and we are all toast.

[s][/s]Whatcha cooking there B.C. ?

I am baking some Ritz Seabass right now.

I may Bacon Wrap And Bake A Whole pheasant tomorrow from my hunt this past Tuesday.

Just a small batch sans topping. Thanks Murph, and all the added comments. Good Ship.


Oh... Pic is of left overs. Small batch indeed.

Chicken breast.... wrapped in bacon

Can None of you learn to rotate??

It's a well documented issue with the iPhone, jeebus Craig, Tommy's is closed!

Bluechip's original pic is perfect on my iPad, but Craig your "corrected" rotation views as sideways on my iPad.

The picture rotation issue and the login loss issue will all be fixed with the new Fourm

Hold the phone correctly or upload from your computer

Are you laying down with your Ipad?

I don't use Apples, and I am cognizant of the fact that I cannot dine at Tommy's on Wednesday nights....

Is Inshore night being held at Tommy's?

Unsure night is for sure.....

What does Tommy's at Wednesday night mean? Offshore nights are on TUESDAY's

Thats when inshore nights are... Tog/sea bass/ fluke etc etc

I tried it with Perch and seasoning without the topping, everyone loved them! Finally got out Toggin on the 29th and I'll try this recipe again with the Tog. Thanks

So my mouth has been watering since this thread started and I have a freezer full of blackfish so I had to give this a try. Kept it simple, just thick cut smoked bacon, and drizzled a cracked black pepper and butter sauce over the top baked on 500 for about 12-15 minutes and we had taug perfection. I can't eat any more but they keep staring at me. Looks like I have a little snack at work tomorrow. Thanks for the awesome recipie murph and everyone else. I think bacon wrapped anything is good though.

After re-reading this post, I'm kinda surprised nobody tried "bacon wrapped" bluefish?

....because they’re Bluefish John!

I do like small Bluefish 3-8#ers quickly bled and iced eaten same day on the grill. Also love them all smoked. My Dad used to bake big Bluefish with a Cucumber & Onion Bread Stuffing layered on top and those always came out awesome too.