Red snapper

[Ritterskoop]

I have cooked it.

It was expensive but very good and easy to cook.

a filet, add salt and fancyass pepper (fancyass salt if you have it but we don't), some olive oil

lay them in the pan which is already at medium hot, then turn down the heat to medium

add more olive oil

cook for 3 minutes (closer to 4 if there is any pink in the middle)

turn over and cook for one minute

all done




Now, can other fishes be handled thusly, if they are already filletted for me?

I can do this.

[KillerTomato]

I have cooked it.

It was expensive but very good and easy to cook.

a filet, add salt and fancyass pepper (fancyass salt if you have it but we don't), some olive oil

lay them in the pan which is already at medium hot, then turn down the heat to medium

add more olive oil

cook for 3 minutes (closer to 4 if there is any pink in the middle)

turn over and cook for one minute

all done




Now, can other fishes be handled thusly, if they are already filletted for me?

I can do this.

Pretty much any medium- to heavy-weighted fish can be cooked thusly. Salmon and tuna are my favorites, but mahi mahi would be wonderful as well.

[KillerTomato]

Oh, and if you have a really light, thin fish (say, Lake Erie Perch, my personal favorite for this), just coat the little filets in crushed corn flakes, and fry them very very quickly (less than 30 seconds per side) in a shallow pan with 1/4 inch of veggie oil. Mmmmmmmmmmmm.

[Ritterskoop]

I will ask the butcher man. They had several other fishes available. I do not want to discriminate against any of them.

[christie1111]

But KT, you will now know what REAL mahi tastes like and will only be able to enjoy it when you are in Hawaii.

Spoiled is one word for it!

[KillerTomato]

But KT, you will now know what REAL mahi tastes like and will only be able to enjoy it when you are in Hawaii.

Spoiled is one word for it!

This is so true, but you can get good mahi here on the Mainland, too....not as good as the stuff I had on Kauai...or the Big Island....or Maui....(I had a LOT of mahi!), but good nonetheless.

[Bob Juch]

Blame transportation costs for the high price of sea-fish there.

Try tilapia; that should work very well and cost much less.

[ulysses5019]

I will ask the butcher man. They had several other fishes available. I do not want to discriminate against any of them.

I don't think some of them would mind a little discrimination. It is a lifetime commitment for them.

[MarleysGh0st]

I will ask the butcher man. They had several other fishes available. I do not want to discriminate against any of them.

I don't think some of them would mind a little discrimination. It is a lifetime commitment for them.

Rec.

[ulysses5019]

I have cooked it.

It was expensive but very good and easy to cook.

a filet, add salt and fancyass pepper (fancyass salt if you have it but we don't), some olive oil

lay them in the pan which is already at medium hot, then turn down the heat to medium

add more olive oil

cook for 3 minutes (closer to 4 if there is any pink in the middle)

turn over and cook for one minute

all done




Now, can other fishes be handled thusly, if they are already filletted for me?

I can do this.

BTW, did d you offer any to Dub?

[SportsFan68]

Blame transportation costs for the high price of sea-fish there.

Try tilapia; that should work very well and cost much less.

I thought tilapia and red snapper were the same thing, so I googled it.

It's the same as those fake people who have been scamming us from Nigeria!

Restaurants (maybe even cafes, bistros, and brasseries) have been faking red snapper with tilapia!

Harumph!

[Ritterskoop]

BTW, did d you offer any to Dub?

He was stunningly disinterested.

He has never liked most people food, except some nonmeats like olives, carrots (he thinks they smell good), and yogurt, which he will eat and get on his nose way cute.

[SportsFan68]

BTW, did d you offer any to Dub?

He was stunningly disinterested.

He has never liked most people food, except some nonmeats like olives, carrots (he thinks they smell good), and yogurt, which he will eat and get on his nose way cute.

Wow! Yeti would have waited politely for about one second for me to put it in her dish or wherever before she grabbed it out of my hand, taking parts of one or more fingers with her, and hauled it somewhere safe to eat away from Clayton and Casey. She loves fish. Olives and carrots, not so much.

[TheCalvinator24]

Back in November 200, we stayed at a house in Destin, FL. Took a half-day fishing trip into the Gulf. Caught the limit on Red Snapper. We grilled them that same evening.

Dee-Lish-Us!!!

[tlynn78]

That is an excellent way to prepare red snapper. I like to wrap my salmon in parchment paper and bake it.


t.

[ulysses5019]

Where are those Charles Fox singers? Oh well:

Landfall


Now what do they do if I just sailed away
Who the hell really compelled me to leave today
Runnin' low on stories is what made it a ball
What would they do if made no landfall

I lived half my life in eight by five room
Just cruisin' to the sound of the big diesel boom
It's not close quarters that would make me snap
It's just dealing with the daily unadulterated crap

Sail away for a month at a time,
Sail away I've got to recharge mind
Then you'll find me back at it again

Oh I love the smell of fresh snapper fried lite
What'd you say, pouilly fuisse could round out the night
The mid morning watch is the best time to look
Oh what would they do if I wrote the big book

`Cause I've seen incredible things in my year
Somedays were laughter, others were tears
If I had it all to do over again
I'd just get myself drunk and I'd jump right back in

Sail away, that's the way I survive
Sail away, that's just no shuck and jive
It just makes my whole life come alive

The wind whistled threw the cool rigging at night
Crazy crowds boogie to the sound and the lights
down in he's just havin' a ball
What would he do on another landfall
What would they do if I made no landfall
Oh what would they do if I flew to Nepal
What would I do if I met Lucille Ball
Tryin' to make a little sense of it all
Just tryin' to make a little sense of it al

[Ritterskoop]

Blame transportation costs for the high price of sea-fish there.

Try tilapia; that should work very well and cost much less.

I thought tilapia and red snapper were the same thing, so I googled it.

It's the same as those fake people who have been scamming us from Nigeria!

Restaurants (maybe even cafes, bistros, and brasseries) have been faking red snapper with tilapia!

Harumph!

What I bought just said snapper, not red snapper, so they did not mislead me, I think.

I went swimming after, feeling fishy and all.

[mellytu74]

Thank you Skoop and KT for two excellent recipes.

I also like to experiment with spices on fish, see what fish can handle different spice levels.

I particularly like a ginger fish recipe I found a few years ago. Ginger, lemon zest & scallions and, I think, cumin.

Sauted, I think. I know it wasn't baked or broiled because I made it not that long ago and we have no working oven and haven't for a year.

I will look it up and post it if I can find it.

Miss Denise is not a fish eater as a rule but she will eat tuna from a napkin when we are making tuna salad. And shrimp pieces.

Not in her regular wet food dish, mind you. That is a beef-only dish. But a napkin on the floor by the coffee table when we are watching television.

She does love olives and baby carrots. She bats them around with her paws and entertains herself for minutes at a time.

The Late Norman loved fish and homemade spaghetti sauce -- suspect that was from a Parmigiano-Reggiano habit he picked up as a youth.

I put my plate on an ottoman to answer the phone. When I came back, he was going to town, licking the sauce like it was made just for him. The rest of his life, he had to have sauce with cheese whenever I ate spaghetti.

[ghostjmf]

Tucker goes nutsy over olives. He will lick a knife blade (ouch!) that has been spreading tapenade. Tracy used to love cheese slivers & olives (not something I generally eat together, but he would have). AB used to put little teeth marks all along the edge of half of canteloupe if you ever left one near her, but wouldn't actually eat pieces if you gave them to her; I think it was just the coolth on her teeth she loved.

All my cats will/would slurp up the water that tuna or salmon is packed in. Tucker, the current cat, is not so hot on actual pieces of fish that you have actually broiled on a broiler, but he'll slurp bits put into the tuna water. He is also interested in lettuce, but the primary interest is to see where he can drag it around the house.

[tlynn78]

cats are weird.

I mean that in a good way.

mostly.

t.

[SportsFan68]

cats are weird.

I mean that in a good way.

mostly.

t.

Cats are weird. Squeaky loved cantaloupe and would eat it as long as I had the patience to cut it into little pieces and feed it to her. Which I willingly did, of course, being staff and all.

[tlynn78]

being staff and all

I think that's the secret to a good relationship with a cat - knowing one's place.


t.

[ghostjmf]

I went to my currently favorite Chinese restaurant & tried one last time to recreate a favorite meal from a long-defunct favorite Chinese restaurant. Crispy Fish in Szechuan sauce. Whole fish, of course.

I forget which fish the former restaurant used, but this restaurant uses....tilapia. The biggest tilapia I've ever seen, even though it wasn't as big as the fish the former restaurant used. Or maybe it wasn't really tilapia like they said? The work-cafeteria tiliapia are, like, minnow-sized.

At any rate, since the current restaurant offers many fish combos but this is not one, I asked for the crispy fish they offer with the sweet-&-sour sauce to be used instead of the braised fish they offer with Szechuan sauce.

It was good (the crispy fish part especially) but their sauce is way hotter & oilier than my remembered sauce. But I still have 1/2 left for tonight's supper. Even with a smaller fish, no way, with all that sauce & rice too, that I can eat the whole thing in one sitting.

I did not offer any of the fish in hot-hot-hot sauce to the cat. That's an idea!

[gsabc]

cats are weird.

I mean that in a good way.

mostly.

t.

Cats are weird. Squeaky loved cantaloupe and would eat it as long as I had the patience to cut it into little pieces and feed it to her. Which I willingly did, of course, being staff and all.

Kodak loves watermelon, and is most industrious in making nice to us when we're cutting one up. Skylar, OTOH, likes marshmallows. Guess which one is in my avatar?

None of our previous cats had odd eating habits. Unless you count Sherman, who liked to lick plastic bags and chew up (but not swallow) aluminum foil. Or Meeko, who would curl up in my lap and gnaw on the inside of my elbow.