Fish

[SimonBolivar 10961]

We had a thread about cooking and consuming fish on the scat board, but we need one for here. I grew up not eating anything from the sea between the ages of 5 and 28 (allergic to crustaceans) until I found out the magic of oysters. My love of fish has been coming slowly and I'm trying to get myself to eat it at least 3 times a week. Lately I've been in a Thai style coconut milk mood with mahi-mahi and salmon. Other than that I'll do some tuna steaks. What are your go to recipes and species? Where are you getting your fish from? 

[Braff Zacklin 13672]

You'll always be BaylorHistory to me, damnit.

[SimonBolivar 10961]

1 minute ago, Braff Zacklin said:

You'll always be BaylorHistory to me, damnit.

I've shifted to a post-Baylor lifestyle...with a Latin flair.

[Jerry Callo 8832]

I cook both ciopinno and Red Snapper Veracruz a few times a year - plenty of recipes online.  As for species with a different texture and flavor than tuna or salmon, try Chilean Sea Bass 

[South Austin 52736]

I really started liking scallops a few years ago.  Good tasting and pretty healthy with a shitload of protein.  I get jumbo scallops, lightly dust each side with flour, and sear in butter and olive oil on high heat for about a minute or so on each side.  Maybe drizzle a bit of truffle oil after they're out of the pan.

For fish, I mainly stick to neutral tasting fish, and cook a lot of halibut and sea bass.  Like scallops, nothing fancy beyond pan searing. 

[crash_davis 23161]

i'm old school.  good fish doesn't need to be covered in any sauce.  fish is like steak, if it's fresh and cooked right, it don't need nothing but salt and pepper.

shit like catfish, talapia, yea that stuff needs to be fried or covered in sauce. 

or you can bake or steam whole fish.  imo that's the best way to eat fish.  but again, the fish matters.

[HenryJames 66286]

Tilapia needs to be used as bait to catch better fish.

Edited December 11, 2018 by HenryJames

[bluto 4947]

Salmon and halibut are my go-to, halibut is expensive AF though. 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

Grilled rockfish, white, flaky, tasty species. Really love it with collard greens ladled on top.

[Anastasis 23514]

34 minutes ago, bluto said:

Salmon and halibut are my go-to, halibut is expensive AF though. 

pretty much this. mix a sea bass in every once in a while. but salmon constitutes the vast majority of our fish consumption. 

[SimonBolivar 10961]

How is rainbow trout? I'd assume very similar to salmon?

[Sbbruin 21923]

6 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

How is rainbow trout? I'd assume very similar to salmon?

I find it pretty flavorless.  Not like salmon at all.  Best grilled whole, stuff the cavity with butter, herbs, tomatoes, anything really.  We eat fish once a week minimum, often more than that.  And I'm a fish snob and will only buy it at the local fishmonger Fish King or Whole Foods.  Grocery store fish sucks.  Of course, fresh caught yourself fish is the best, no matter what it is.

[Jerry Callo 8832]

11 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

How is rainbow trout? I'd assume very similar to salmon?

Rainbow trout is great smoked.  I don't care for it otherwise.

[Deej 77202]

1 hour ago, South Austin said:

I really started liking scallops a few years ago.  Good tasting and pretty healthy with a shitload of protein.  I get jumbo scallops, lightly dust each side with flour, and sear in butter and olive oil on high heat for about a minute or so on each side.  Maybe drizzle a bit of truffle oil after they're out of the pan.

For fish, I mainly stick to neutral tasting fish, and cook a lot of halibut and sea bass.  Like scallops, nothing fancy beyond pan searing. 

Man, I liked scallops, but the two worst food poisoning incidents of my life were due to scallops. I can't hardly look at them, now. It's a shame.

[Horn80 6241]

1 hour ago, SimonBolivar said:

How is rainbow trout? I'd assume very similar to salmon?

For my two cents, I don’t care for it or any trout for that matter.  Perhaps I have not ever had it prepared right but always seems bit fishy and/or mushy.  This includes saltwater trout too.

[Shaddie 1672]

Cmon people

Yellowfin tuna caught 30 minutes ago and 1st mate cuts out some nice sashimi from it. No goddamn wasabi. Just a little lime. 

Then rare grilled tuna steaks with peppercorn crust. That is a life well lived. 

[Chewbacca 7793]

I don't care for trout, either.  Smoking it will get rid of some of the fishiness, but otherwise I just don't like it, which is a shame because I love fishing for trout.  I pretty much catch & release these days.

[Chewbacca 7793]

1 minute ago, Shaddie said:

Cmon people

Yellowfin tuna caught 30 minutes ago and 1st mate cuts out some nice sashimi from it. No goddamn wasabi. Just a little lime. 

Then rare grilled tuna steaks with peppercorn crust. That is a life well lived. 

Best fish I've ever had was on a fishing boat in Playa del Carmen.  Caught a mackerel and within 20 minutes had turned it into ceviche.  Holy shit, I still think about that meal.  Then we had the hotel give us a tuna extravaganza (they prepared it 3-4 different ways) with the tuna we caught that night.  Amazing.

[Shaddie 1672]

Trick for crappie. 

Put yellow mustard on fillets then do cornmeal crust. Sounds weird but ther 0 mustard taste and corneal sticks better. 

[Shaddie 1672]

Haven’t had the guts to try eyes. Anybody done that yet?

[spystud13 2371]

Did you just stroke out? 

[Shaddie 1672]

1 minute ago, spystud13 said:

Did you just stroke out? 

No. You will find some people love salt water fish eyes. Cooked of course. 

[spystud13 2371]

Yeah, you snuck that post in. I was referring to your last sentence in the crappie one. 

[Shaddie 1672]

I swear to god that is the way I do my crappie now. I didn’t believe it either but an old fishing bud that was from Iowa showed me that and you will have 0 mustard taste. Breading sticks much better. 

[Sam Lin 3566]

30 minutes ago, Shaddie said:

Haven’t had the guts to try eyes. Anybody done that yet?

Eyes you say?

The deeper the fish live, the larger the eye (to gather more light). So, deepwater fish at top:

Have very large eyes. And very large eyeballs (eyeball taken out on left, it's larger than a standard marble and larger than the entire eye of most fish):

Aftermath, I call it Fish:Deconstructed

 

[Shaddie 1672]

Damn. You got bigger (eye) balls than I do. +rep. 

[Jerry Callo 8832]

51 minutes ago, Sam Lin said:

Eyes you say?

The deeper the fish live, the larger the eye (to gather more light). So, deepwater fish at top:

Have very large eyes. And very large eyeballs (eyeball taken out on left, it's larger than a standard marble and larger than the entire eye of most fish):

Aftermath, I call it Fish:Deconstructed

 

Name checks out.  You must be Asian af to be eating that.  What happened to the damn filets?

[ohchaucer 1443]

I've had fish eyes but not like that. Would take me a while to work up to it. We'll see. 

[thrillhammer 684]

as for the eyes, no thanks.  I find rainbow trout to be too small and bony.  i'm a big fan of rockfish, black drum, turbot for affordable sustainable species.  snapper is damn tasty too and not too expensive.  halibut, sea bass, and grouper and melt in your mouth tasty but too pricey for me for a regular thing.

is fish king the dude from palacious at the farmers markets?  I've bought about everything he sells over the years, but have kind of sworn off him now that I've tried it all, as his portions are too small for the money.  quality seafood, central market, or occasionally my regular heb as something interesting. 

I have shitloads of recipes but am with the one poster that says keep it simple.  butter or olive oil and blackened seasoning is incredibly delicious.

[Reagan1k 3026]

On 12/11/2018 at 6:16 PM, Shaddie said:

Trick for crappie. 

Put yellow mustard on fillets then do cornmeal crust. Sounds weird but ther 0 mustard taste and corneal sticks better. 

This is how my coonass grandmother taught me to fry fish-  yellow mustard.  It makes any cornmeal fried fish better.  We always  fry catfish when we boil shrimp or crawfish and I still use yellow mustard every time. 

[Shoxthemonkey 1983]

The answer is walleye if you are somewhere that you can catch your own or buy it fresh.

[DCA_HORN 725]

Walleye is very overrated imho.

[Underdog 28878]

Does Long John Silvers count? 

 

Never been much of a fish/seafood eater but that has changed somewhat the last 15-20 years, have always liked shrimp but Lobster is my new like, especially since moving up North.  Haddock is popular up here along with cod, I like both, love catfish.  Don’t eat near enough of fish/seafood as I should. 

 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

38 minutes ago, DCA_HORN said:

Walleye is very overrated imho.

Not a whole helluva lot of flavor......... till you add ketchup.  Blandest fish I've ever been forced to eat.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

40 minutes ago, DCA_HORN said:

Walleye is very overrated imho.

Not a whole helluva lot of flavor......... till you add ketchup.  Blandest fish I've ever been forced to eat.

 

 

Edited December 13, 2018 by Onboard 2.0

[justhookit 4191]

On 12/11/2018 at 6:12 PM, Shaddie said:

Cmon people

Yellowfin tuna caught 30 minutes ago and 1st mate cuts out some nice sashimi from it. No goddamn wasabi. Just a little lime. 

Then rare grilled tuna steaks with peppercorn crust. That is a life well lived. 

This, and I’ll add wahoo which I like even better IF it’s fresh. We got lucky this year and landed more wahoo than usual during our summer tournaments. Man we had some incredible meals on overnights. Ling and tripletail are others I like a lot but again I won’t eat them unless we caught it or I know it’s fresh.

Only 3 more weeks till we start our season in Costa Rica and I’ll be eating yellowfin and dorado regularly.

 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

20 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Does Long John Silvers count? 

 

Never been much of a fish/seafood eater but that has changed somewhat the last 15-20 years, have always liked shrimp but Lobster is my new like, especially since moving up North.  Haddock is popular up here along with cod, I like both, love catfish.  Don’t eat near enough of fish/seafood as I should. 

 

Try monkfish, It's called the poor mans lobster, and when cooked correctly has a very very similar flavor.  Pretty tasty fish.

[justhookit 4191]

That’s a solid rec on the monkfish. There’s really only one restaurant here in Port A that I order fish from and they occasionally have it. They also drive to the fish markets in other places along the coast (we don’t have one here) and he gets great grouper, snapper, and flounder.

[gsoda3 3309]

fish eyes are good.  we eat a good amount of steamed whole fish, that's the best way to eat the eyes.  recently been eating lots of monkfish, golden pompano, and something that looks like a lionfish but the name escapes me at the moment.  all of those are pan-fried with a little bit of water with the lid on.  salt/pepper/lemon.  

[South Austin 52736]

Are bonito fish big?

[Judge Roybeanbag 11829]

20 hours ago, justhookit said:

This, and I’ll add wahoo which I like even better IF it’s fresh. We got lucky this year and landed more wahoo than usual during our summer tournaments. Man we had some incredible meals on overnights. Ling and tripletail are others I like a lot but again I won’t eat them unless we caught it or I know it’s fresh.

Only 3 more weeks till we start our season in Costa Rica and I’ll be eating yellowfin and dorado regularly.

 

We had fresh wahoo on your boat that day in Port A when Petey was cleaning them, it was fantastic.  

Edited December 14, 2018 by Judge Roybeanbag

[RMac5 1551]

Orange Roughy is pretty good, my favorite is Chilean Sea Bass.

Love diver or sea scallops too.

[Gambrinus 51]

Like to pick up a large salmon fillet at Quality Seafood. Smoke with alder wood. Great for game watching parties when wives will be present and pizza not nice enough

[RollLeft 5050]

Wahoo>Grouper>Dorado(Mahi Mahi)>Snapper

Imo are the best tasting fish to eat.  

then theres Tuna>Flounder>everything else

 

Salmon and Catfish are close to the bottom for me. 

 

crab>shrimp>lobster a whole other category

mussels>clams>oysters

[RollLeft 5050]

On 12/11/2018 at 6:12 PM, Shaddie said:

Cmon people

Yellowfin tuna caught 30 minutes ago and 1st mate cuts out some nice sashimi from it. No goddamn wasabi. Just a little lime. 

Then rare grilled tuna steaks with peppercorn crust. That is a life well lived. 

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[Jerry Callo 8832]

7 hours ago, Gambrinus said:

Like to pick up a large salmon fillet at Quality Seafood. Smoke with alder wood. Great for game watching parties when wives will be present and pizza not nice enough

I'm going to try smoking some salmon on Sunday.  If it turns out well, I'll probably do some more for Christmas.

[ohchaucer 1443]

This thread needs more grilled swordfish. Salt, pepper, olive oil on the grill, then played with some lemon wedges. 

And great with blackening spices, old bay, etc too. 

[Brisketexan 105615]

I prefer to start with one fish.  Then two fish.  Then, when you're ready, move on to redfish.  Then bluefish.

[Gambrinus 51]

11 hours ago, Jerry Callo said:

I'm going to try smoking some salmon on Sunday.  If it turns out well, I'll probably do some more for Christmas.

I've smoked salmon on an offset smoker, also with indirect heat on a gas grill with a smoker box with wood chips over the flame. I think gas grill with smoker box is easier for fish. 

[Horn80 6241]

On 12/11/2018 at 6:16 PM, Shaddie said:

Trick for crappie. 

Put yellow mustard on fillets then do cornmeal crust. Sounds weird but ther 0 mustard taste and corneal sticks better. 

Never heard this one before. Interesting