Let's Cooking: TNL!

[kingoffighters]

Deep fried it. You can deep fry anything and it will taste good.

[Mman]

I think I've talked about this before, but AG reminded me. I like to mix up onions (shallots if you're nasty) spinach, mushrooms and garlic and sauté the fuck out of it. If I'm feeling fancy I'll deglaze with white wine, but I often don't.

You can do this with all kinds of greens (collards, mustard, etc.) although they take longer than spinach. What is really good is cooking this with bacon fat or adding in something like smoked ham.

Anyone have any tips for Talapia? I love it, and it was on sale this week and I have a ton of it. I'd love to grill it, but my attempts to grill fish in the past had come out like a train wreck..

The key to grilling fish filets is to make sure that 1. your grill is clean and 2. only flip it once. Once it is on the grill only touch it when you flip it and when you take it off. This is hard because it is difficult to time on a super hot grill, and you are bound to fuck a few no matter what.

Personally, I don't even grill fish filets, especially tilapia. Way too thin to ever get anything consistent. Instead, see if you can't get whole, scaled tilapia. The skin is way less sticky, and even if it does you just lose a bit of the skin (which is very tasty) and the meat stays fine. If you are more adventurous you can wrap the whole fish with some herbs and/or lemons in something like banana leaves, corn husks, or even just foil if you wanted to. Then you can just throw the whole damn thing straight on the coals and enjoy when done.

[Josh]

You can do this with all kinds of greens (collards, mustard, etc.) although they take longer than spinach. What is really good is cooking this with bacon fat or adding in something like smoked ham.

I'm betting you're right. but I'm still one of "those people".

[Mr-K]

A queer?

[Advocate]

Anyone have any tips for Talapia?

use onions. Lots and lots of onions.

[Mman]

A queer?

I think he meant white.

[Nomi]

On Wildkat's note of talapia, I am considering adding some real fish into my diet. I don't have the slightest idea of how to easily cook any particular variety (I only have a small Foreman grill and normal gas range) and haven't even had fish in years. Suggestions on something that would be simple to cook?

[cigsthecat]

I think he meant white.

He meant vegetarian, but I'd bet he's still white as well.

[animegirl]

I pan fry tilapia with excellent results. A little butter, salt and pepper and you are good to go. I made enchiladas last night that were awesome. I roasted two poblano peppers under the broiler, seeded/peeled them and put them in a blender with about a cup and a half of fresh spinach. I then melted a stick of butter and sweat three chopped garlic cloves for about a minute then added flour to make a roux. I added two cups of whole milk and two cups of chicken broth to the roux simmered to thicken then added half the mixture to the blender.

I blended it all up (it turned a pretty green color) added it back to the rest of the sauce. I had some rotissery chicken chopped up, I filled corn tortillas with it, covered with the green sauce and queso blanco cheese and some chopped cilantro. I then baked for 20 minutes at 350 till the cheese was browned and bubbily. They were a little extra effort but they were the best fucking enchiladas I have ever had.

Nomi, I had swordfish awhile back that was easy to cook and delicious. I made a mustard glaze for it but any recipe for white fish would work. Salmon is easy to cook as well and lends itself well to sweet or asian inspired flavors. I also love me some catfish (hurr negros) which I batter then deep fry for po' boy sammiches. The only thing with fresh fish is you pretty much have to eat it the day you buy it or else it gets bad very quickly.

[Josh]

I'd bet he's still white as well.

Not according to facebook quizzes!