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Pan-fried Walleye with Smoked Sour Cherries
Pan-fried Walleye, Wild Rice with Tomatoes and Smoked Sour Cherries
Kat: "I'm going to lightly pan fry my walleye fish. That's how I grew up eating it. This is what my dad and I used to go fishing for. I grew up in Door County, Wisconsin. This fish seems to have very fine bones, so maybe a little challenging, just getting organized, trying to figure out where everything is."
Later, Kat: "Trying to get my cream to smoke. I want to have a smoked element to play against the sweetness of the sour cherries. I tried to set up a little smoker in a hotel pan, trap some smoke in it. That's not working all that well. I'm really improvising here right now. I resort to lighting the chips on fire, turning to embers, and then just dumping the whole thing into the cream. I have spent 10 minutes trying to troubleshoot the smoke."
Presenting to Judges: "This is a pan fried walleye. A bit of lentil flour, wild rice and tomatoes, and sour cherries on some of your plates. I suffered a little bit of a time crunch. It was like a series of things that put me behind."
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