 Welcome all back to the treehouse ladies and gentlemen where it is always a good place to start the morning Now I got something special for you here today We're gonna be doing a a croppy recipe. I've done three or four times been been perfecting it with OSG It's really OSG She's gonna be showing you guys this recipe today, but I am gonna be providing the fish Actually excited about today's video number one these fish cakes gonna be delicious I've been waiting a couple weeks to do this recipe again But also, you know a lot of times I travel around to these different lakes and I'll do overnights and Sometimes it's so far away. I'll drive home and you know kids are already in bed and stay in local here today I like going out to my local lake coming home. I've got fish kids are playing in the yard Clean the fish up, you know kids get to see the whole process. We eat the fish It's the circle of life man. I really do love that so you guys will You're coming along today to hang hanging out the local lake and come back to the treehouse for little fish dinner So I got a chicken check for you guys right now rooster drama pernil sanders over here in the background has overtaken Mr. Penny for the lead rooster slot. I don't even know where where mr. Penny is right now They have been straight brawling. He's over here. He's hiding under my ATV right now he is distraught shevelled looks like crap and Victorious one Colonel Sanders. I mean he'll he'll just straight give him a butt whooping right now He crows too many times. He will straight give him a butt whooping just kind of wondering and let me know in the comments Do I need to take take one of these roosters out because if this cycle continues I mean one of them is going to whoop the other one so bad He's just gonna expire and you know, we'll have to throw him in some soup or something chicken tortilla soup I don't know We'll come up with something something fun Let's unwrap this one and head to the water Floating with 64 I have my crappie shorts on today The crappy the crappy attire is out And we got the meat necklace So soon as I catch these things Be ambitious, but as soon as I catch I'm gonna throw them in the cooler get them ice down So they'll be nice and chilled when I slap the sides off of I had them chases bait around it's a tube. It's the tasty tube They are not they're not eating it. Just had a real nice real big one come out and look at it I don't know if they're just in a weird mood today. It could be the mood Croppy when they get the finicky it's tough Except bumping bugs got a little more action to it. So windy. This is very difficult Well, that one wants it come on eat it. Oh my gosh, they're just falling it out the coming right up to it I think they're just in a mood today you guys to just cooperate so we can Put you into a fish cake under my trailer motor and try I know that's not gonna measure They do not want to buy it. They just don't try to my goals Folks sometimes the program you just got to go with Now that program is a white bass Moving out from their spawn doing large schoolings on shads Yeah, crappie suck right now. So I am rolling with the punches as they say Let's make a few casts. Well almost went swimming right there. I'm so glad I turned around and saw that that will do Give me five of these we're in Fitness little buddies will be perfect questionable one there and a skater Scout saving the day fast right now are coming out of the spawn and they're starting to move out on the main leg point it is It's gonna get really wild here in another few weeks, but right now. They're just in Small schools and they're high up in the water column So fishing a jerk bait or like a square bill On these points or anywhere you see the gulls And the shad is a good move Point them out buddies Point them out. Are they right there of the provisions for the family cool organics? Yes, sir. No skunky for me today Chocolate covered pretzels. No, I have some fish. Okay, but not crappie. They are not crappie Little white bass Okay, white bass cakes. Yeah, this should be interesting still and it was a weird weather day today, too It was very windy. It's cold. It's very windy and cold the crappie. He said no, thank you. We're gonna clean the fish We're going to Go to the OSG. Oh in the kitchen OSG It's been a while and You feel prepared to get all the necessary ingredients good to go I feel like you got it dialed. We're gonna nail this thing or what? I think we're gonna nail it. I'm actually gonna take some fresh Green onions from my garden. Let's show them the garden. Show them. We're going full granola Oh, yeah, I'm going full granola here. Full granola at the treehouse here So these are onions and these have exploded. So I actually need to cut some of these back and we've we've also set up a Rainwater Watering system here. So it goes from one of our rain barrels up there catching the natural waters and infusing it Into the garden, uh, and we've also Infused it with our own compost the help of the chickens I mean absolute full granola And we got some tomatoes. I I've requested tomatoes Uh, so we're gonna see how that goes here and the tomato blades are actually taking off pretty good, too They've already grown quite a bit. By the way, if you guys have green thumb tips Tips for tomatoes, I want to hear them in the comments. I want big juicy bat tomatoes. Whatever we gotta do Here they go folks live action Colonel Sanders is just whooping up. Whoo, buddy. Whoo Wah, bam. I mean, they don't even like know we're here while they're fighting better. Watch out. I'm gonna watch some toes Ben Ben you better get out of the way son while they're duking Yeah, I don't I I know I don't I don't really know what to do here Well, I think mr. Penny is giving up like obviously he doesn't feel his frisky anymore. He's like, okay, dude What do we do? Do we put one down? What's the deal? I mean, they're just popping each other Well instead of fish cakes we might be having chicken tonight That's dinner guys. Good to your food before you eat it. Just got a mystery package delivered. I don't know What'd you order? I didn't order. I didn't order anything. Are you sure? If it's what I think it is This was like must have been air like air delivered or something Oh So much unplanned action in this video you got Cockfights surprise unboxings Hey, it's uh my second hat my colors Oh, it looks like it's good Don't say that. No. All right. So This is the new Doppler three million Adopt for three million So I purposely did not put a live Turret or a turret on my life scope this spring season because I wanted to bass fish up in the stumps and not break my unit. Um These guys didn't want to send me a unit last year and like everybody else. They had some Uh issues just get the parts and stuff Finally, um, they're available now. So this is this is the foresight It looks uh, it's pretty solid. Anyway, I'm gonna be uh installing this supposedly it's easy to take all it off You do want to do, you know the offshore spot lock with the turret dangle And then if you want to go up shallow do uh some stuff faster than whatever you take it off It's pretty easy. So foresight forward facing sonar mount Now a little pro tip. I put a little bit of food grade food grade uh knife oil On my blades before I get going it prevents some of the gunk From from getting in there And it also uh prevents the wear the finish if you got a finish on your On your blade like this one kind of has a non-stick It'll it'll make it nice and nice and greasy for you. All right. I got a bowl of cold water And then the fisherman's sitting on ice for a few hours I do like to let him sit overnight if possible. Just lets the meat firm up a little bit These are perfect size for what we're going to be doing here today Wanted those little crappie, but they were not cooperating. So I'm actually interested to see What these are like so making a little Cut right behind the gill plate And just slide nice down through that rib cage That'll be careful with the young ones Don't want to slide through the Back bone It's a female. It's a female we could uh, we could throw that row in there Easy peasy That would take me a little standard unit knife and I'm delicate around the rib cage cut Get the most out of the meat These are good candidate for this recipe. It's like they're too small and really Uh, you could fry them, but they're too small to do anything else with You coming to check out this action, Amy? Yeah You always like the filet part, don't you? You want to go fishing? Dude, you want to cut some of these? Cut my heads off I don't watch the head part. Your shoes and put them in this because you always forget Because I always see Your shoes going into wrong wrong place. It's back here. It's a skunk. It's a skunk. It's a skunk. It's a midday skunk Hot action. Oh, you got me another one out. Yep, thank you sweetheart No, no, no, no Ben Fish egg fish eggs are called row Oh row Row Row Yep Like row row row your boat. They don't just have one or two babies. They have thousands of eggs That they lay at one time And not many survive Not many survive. Nope That's why they have so many You're gonna give me the next fish. See this is like family assembly line Oh, you're you're holding it good. Yep. I'll take it. Thank you Never ending action here at the treehouse with two kids We have our filets So that's 10 total filets in our bowl here We'll take these inside give them a little cleanup Rinse all this stuff off and then I'm gonna let osg take it from here in the kitchen osg Welcome there she is. Uh, oh Stay away from that blender, buddy And what you got going on so far. I already pre made the little breadcrumbs Uh, so watch if you don't have breadcrumbs on hand super easy to make throw a piece of bread and the toaster Getting nice and just like burned basically and then I threw it in the Food processor for probably about a minute or two grind it all up Homemade bread crumb. I put goat cheese in there. I feel like they make them extra creamy extra without that egg So I don't have egg but I have goat cheese. All right. That's that's a good tip. Okay. Good part tip So this is going to be mixed in with the fish. Yes. So our fish is right here Ready to go. Okay fish filets in the blender adding the crumbs Well, bam Okay, I'm probably not going to use all this just because it wasn't that much fish red Un going in about half of that Little goes a long way with the onions. This is a garden plot This smells fresh green onion. Oh, yeah Salt pepper Well, bam a little bit of paprika You could do old bay too We have old bay, but I like Straight regular pepper. Yeah old bay's good move and I'm gonna throw in some of this garlic and herb Okay, I'm sure what our son is doing in the background, but no idea. Now we're gonna add some of this goat cheese crumbly goat cheese Going in Fourth of a cup I have guess All right a tiny bit of mayonnaise a little bit goes a long way with it. A little mayonnaise makes it nice I guess you could use egg if you really Good wanted to So the mayonnaise if you want All right, okay now here's keys the key right here because last time I think you made them too much I agree I feel like because I didn't pre-make the breadcrumbs I was trying to like pulse the breadcrumbs with or pulse the bread with the fish And we ended up with like a slime mush. Yeah, it was gross. So the first time I did it was great Stand back Okay, this is a game changer. You get like little ice cream scoop and you can pre-make your little balls So they're all uniform in size I know what I used to do with cookies when I like it Kind of smush it down a little bit. You don't want it too thick because then it doesn't cook very well There you go And then it's pretty good That's why you need to catch more Wow It's looking great my dear. Thank you. All right. So we'll finish these patties and then move on to cookie Yeah, typically what I like to do if I have time is to chill them in the fridge for like an hour or two We might have to skip that step I might throw them in the freezer for a minute while I get the oil heating. Okay Um, instead of using like a vegetable oil or canola oil. We use a high heat tolerant olive oil That's the sound that's the sound you want About five minutes on each side Let a breast Those look pretty darn good I'm feeling like this is gonna be a good batch, huh? Running along and catch up for the kids So This is gonna be a big test right here, you know when the kids are eating fish You know, it's pretty good. Um, I will say the first time we had it kind of reminded me of Like a fish stick that you would get when you were younger it had kind of that feel to it Yeah, I agree and it was easy to eat. It wasn't like flaking all over. It wasn't messy So it's kind of like a nugget where they could just Dip it and rip it Dip it and rip it and it's always good to see the kids eat Especially fish, especially something that you've caught, right? Oh, I know Yeah, well it also makes you feel good because I caught the fish But also like they're watching me clean it and everything and emmy's emmy's into it You know She told me on our we were going to dump the fish that she was like dad I just I just love that we both love the lake And I really I really love the fish and I just I want to do things with you because I mean it was the sweetest thing she helps me in the garden. I mean, yeah Don't feel pressured by the camera to flip it too early. You do it when you're ready Yeah problem. Oh, I like the brown though That that one came out clean nice Sticking a little bit a little bit and too hot It tangles you I'm wondering if it's because it didn't chill all the way because they were still They weren't fully chilled could be could be now if these white bass cakes or the jam I mean, we're talking all summer long, baby All summer long white bass cakes I'm here for it. We eat a lot of crappier. In fact, we uh, we got crappie eyes I think we're gonna have it tomorrow night Because we didn't know if we were gonna Yep, almost didn't happen today I saw like a hundred seagulls just fly up. They're looking for shad and I was like There's dinner don't grade us on presentation at this juncture Of course, you can't really grade us on taste so Pretty much all you got is a presentation score, uh That's what's happening over there as long as you hear laughter Yeah Usually followed by crying It's like they're having a little too much fun things are getting a little out of hand and then somebody bonks her head It's gonna get hurt. Yeah My dear bring in the fish cakes Come stand with me. All right golden brown I think you cooked them well. They seem a little more Chunkier they do the fish is definitely different and I think not chilling them is different so We'll see they smells good. They don't smell burns. They're just Let's split a cake you and I What you don't want like last time we had it was real spongy. It was it was like sponge cake super spongy the texture was Not good. What do you think? Still a little spongy? No It falls apart very easily just taking it all in flavor fantastic A lot of different flavors in there. I still like croffy better Texture wise. Yeah It could just be chilling them That could be the element goat cheese the green onion the red onion flavor is fantastic Texture is good as well Can I film I need you to help me with something Yeah, all right. It's good. What do you taste? All of it. What do you like about it? Everything everything. Well, you know that was in the cooler just an hour ago Not anymore Yeah, ah Okay, mom's got more for you in play. That's an unbiased test right there. I can assure you She's a picky eater You had guacamole today. Yeah That's funny because you never really want to eat avocados here at home Speaking of that a little avocado and tomato on the side with this Fantastic, what am I trying to think of not a salsa, but a pico Something like that put on top of that. I'm about to hit it with this aoli sauce Although is the jam that bite. I just had right there. That was good as Any crab cake I've ever had in a restaurant. Thank you Every three star restaurant we've ever been to can you have the sauce? I don't know. Wow. That's amazing. Is this the bacon? That's awesome. No. First ingredient, so if you don't know Oh World mr. Penny You know used to be top dog at the roost and Well, now he's just locked out of the house Guys the fish cakes they were amazing. I'm telling you you've got to try the fish cakes If you are a bass fisherman that You know doesn't really fish for other species if you run into some white bass Keep half a dozen of them. You know try this recipe. You'll be shocked how good it is And I'm interested to try it on some other species as well But so far the crappie and the white bass are fantastic with it I don't know what was going on with the crappie today. They were locked in their little caves I couldn't get the trolls to come out of the caves today, but very soon they're going to be moving offshore We're going to get the Doppler on the boat and we were going to be Plucking them. So I'm excited for that and also these these white bass are starting to come up Getting in the schooling session school is about to be in session and I can't wait to get Amy out there and Get her with her little pole and and she's going to have a good time. She's getting into it. So it's fun, but Mr. Penny, I think it's time to sign it off Bishop Briggs, you know what to do. I will see you on the next great adventure in the outdoors