I get the kind in extra virgin olive oil and just mash them up right in the can season with Sriracha and eat them with a fork. It’s my go-to lunch. I probably have it for lunch 200 times a year.
I like em on fresh rye bread with thin slices of salted onion, either open faced or as a closed sandwich. Might need a schmear of mayo on the onion side if the sardines aren’t oily enough.
PS: If you feed them to the cat, your litter box is going to really reek for the next day or two.
it’s not just for bass anymore.
I’ve always eaten them on white bread with ketchup. I still eat them this way, it’s easy and you don’t have to actually look at them. Canned sardines are simple - take out of can and eat. The more you mess with them, the worse, IMO. (They are like carrots, in that way. Carrots are something you eat, raw or cooked. Start messing with carrots and you “might” have something good there, or you might just have a bunch of ingredients wasted on …carrots.) I would donate them to the food bank, it would be terribly wasteful to throw them away. People will use them to feed their cats, if not eat them.
See, for me carrots are almost exclusively an ingredient. Don’t like them on their own.
Throw them away.
Use them for bait assuming the EPA does not mind. :eek:
Like this?
Well, at a fancy party like that, I’d use a knife to cut the kernels from the cob.
I put them in spaghetti sauce. Remember that tomatoes were not introduced into Italy until after Columbus, and sardines were abundant in the Mediterranean waters, so sardines were a daily staple in the Italian diet before they had tomatoes.
For a quickie, just open a can of sardines in tomato sauce and pour them onto spaghetti with some Italian seasonings. I make my own sauce, and usually pour in a can of sardines packed in oil.
These days I mostly add sardines to soup or salad.
They’re also excellent for live-trapping raccoons.
drain the sardines, mix with a bit of minced onion, sprinkle with a bit of vinegar to taste, mix in a dab of horseradish to taste, spread on a saltine and enjoy.
Baked beans are off.
You fool! Are you trying to sink the economy? (… or so whined the rich idiot with no day job)
I eat them straight out of the can, but I’m lazy. Making a sandwich is probably more socially acceptable.
If you don’t have a cat, dogs also love stinky fish. Our dogs were soooo happy when salmon dogfood came out, and when our one dog was on an allergy elimination diet, the first foods she was allowed were potatoes, brown rice, and tuna. She was crazy about it. (Turned out she was allergic to corn.) She would have been happy to live on those forever-- although, it was nice when peanut butter came back on the menu.
I’d eat them on their own, as a supplement to an otherwise low-protein meal (e.g. if I’m eating pasta with vegetables or something, I might eat a can of sardines alongside them).
Sprinkle them with salt and a bit of paprika or black pepper.
My Granddad used to do this. He gave one to me one time thinking I wouldn’t like it but I did. The mustard ones are the best.
Yes, the mustard ones!
I like them just to eat plain or with hot sauce, but if you don’t like them that way, they are pretty similar to tuna- so flake them up and make them as you would tuna salad, with mayo, relish, etc; or add to a pasta salad.
Sardines, kippers, Blind Robbins. All are celestial with your choice of cracker/bread and a cold beer. My favorite bar snack ever!
But if you don’t like them, you don’t like them. Simply find someone who does.