Posted on 07/08/2008 5:47:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
Thanks. I’ll stick with catfish.
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Once upon a time you dressed do fine through the bums a dime...
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To dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand wavin' free...
Not forgotten just has not made the list yet.
To me, there is absolutely no finer food than FRESH CAUGHT FISH! I've fished in old miner streams in Oregon for Rainbow, forgotten rivers throughout CA, the oceans of CA.
Catch 'em, clean 'em, put them straight into a ground pit, a bbq pit, a frying pan - doesn't matter - it's manna.
I went deep-sea fishing off Bodega Bay years ago. Fileted, I caught 24 lbs of ling cod. Those suckers stay 100s of feet down. Reeled 'em in myself. Could barely move my shoulders for about 3 days....
And yep, love fresh cooked eel.
Anyone who hasn't had abalone and crab straight from the sea to cooker, hasn't really tasted abalone or crab.
Tilapia, fresh, is a very delicate tasting fish. It's excellent.
Dover sole used to be my main edible...
Almost caught a monster daddy bass at Jordan Lake here last year... sigh, mostly caught crappies.
Ahhhh Tilapia. A little salt, pepper, crushed Tarragon, dust in flour, dip in the egg, roll in Panko. Deep fry a couple of minutes and serve with home made Tartar Sauce.
Sheesh, and I was going to make up a batch of Chicken, Pork, Shrimp fried rice tonight. Thawing the Tilapia and Shrimp for dinner instead.
Being I’m of norwegian/sweden ancestry, it’s been in my house, but I could never get past the smell. Although my parents used to eat it alot.
Tilapia lutefisk?....................
Caught Mr Halibut to you, Lings, and Silver Salmon in the ocean, pinks, and sockeye in the rivers. I also catch Channel Catfish and the occasional delicious bass in my pond. I will not eat Telapia or anything else from China.
I eat sardines in mustard only. See above for the fresh catches. I also eat about any other clean meat including beef, pork, and sometimes a dirty chicken. Actually, poultry are among the least clean meats—raised in filthy conditions, and fed a number of feed additives.
I try not to eat stuff that has been raised in fecal pond waters...........It’s probably bad for you.................
There’s passing mention of farm-raised catfish
Its food. As long as you are not allergic to it and it is not poisoned a few catfish fillets aren't going to hurt you.
Most of what is on the "other things to worry about "list are from posted articles on FR put forth by the media as the next thing that was going to make people ill, injure you, or end life on earth to induce a constant state of worry, fretting, fear, uncertainty,and doubt.
In fact one of the items on the list is the article Everything spinning out of control. Seems like the reporters are reading too much of of their own doom and gloom.
Remember that the vast majority of the 300,000,000 people in the good old USA did not have any problem with anything on the list.
The constant drip, drip, drip of "Crisis News" can effect a persons frame of mind. Effect enough people and the consequences can be enormous.
Keep in mind that the sun will most likely come up tomorrow and most of us will be here to see it.
I keep a loaded gun in three rooms of the house to deal with unexpected issues. The dogs will let me know if one of these issues arrives.
I keep a weather radio set to alarm on severe weather alert broadcasts. I monitor the local fire department frequency in case there is a brush fire nearby (it has been pretty dry around here). That is all the crisis news I need.
I try to limit my talk radio listening to 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. and I don't regularly watch the "news". I do not subscribe to the local bird cage liner.
Got to get going since I have 4 loaves of bread rising in the kitchen that need to go into the ovens.
Regards,
Cal
So apparently I’m not the only one who feels this way about tilapia. I’ve had it twice - once at home and another time at a restaurant as part of some sort of seafood paella or something like that (luckily there was other good, edible seafood in it too). Both times I thought it had a really nasty “off” taste - and I like seafood, including really “fishy” tasting seafood like macakerel, herring, salmon, etc.
“The last tilapia I ate tasted moldy.”
Yes, that’s exactly the flavor I detected in tilapia the two times I’ve eaten it. One of the few times I’ve ever left anything sitting on my plate because I just couldn’t stand the flavor.
Yours is how I regularly prepared Sand-dabs, when I could get 'em. Yum.
I've never been anything even remotely resembling a fan of dining on chicken. But I sure do like fresh eggs. :)
Egads, I'm used to FRESH ALASKAN CRAB. Since I've been here on the east coast, I've turned my nose up at the so-called Alaskan crabs more than not. Why? It's old, it's gone through various temps: It's not as fresh as one would get while on the west coast. So, I'm now eating East/South fish I never really had available to me on the West Coast. And loving the tastes of the newer-to-me fishes!
You may be correct. I think it’s safe to say that tilapia farm-raised in China is probably far from fresh by the time it reaches Ontario, where I live, or Maine, where I had it in a restaurant. Why they were serving farm-raised fish from China in Maine kind of mystifies me. I would think that flash-freezing it once and then keeping it that way until use wouldn’t affect the flavor too much. Strange that both times that I ate it, months and a thousand miles apart, it had the same odd flavor. I’ve never been all that keen on any of the cheap fishes with supposedly delicate flavors, though.
I am not disagreeing with those who've stated they've had Tilapia which tasted moldy, or rank. I have had the same experience here.
” tilapia farm-raised in China is probably far from fresh by the time it reaches Ontario”
Interesting. All the fresh Tilapia in Cleveland’s Chinatown comes from a company in Erie, Pa.. I go down to Asia Foods, point out a strong swimmer in the tank. Guy nets it, kills it, guts it, and scales it. I bring it straight home, and wash it again. Head stays on, as well as fins and tail. Put it on a fish plate on a big bed of baby carrots. Stuff it with shredded ginger, green onions and carrots. Put some more of that on top. Dribble on some Shaoxing wine and a little sesame oil. Let it sit for 15 minutes, then steam. Shanghai-style steamed fish. Abdo-lutely wonderful! The fish cheeks are worth fightin’ over!
Lately been eatin’ mostly ocean fish though. I watch for sales, and buy a bunch for the freezer.
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