Wish me luck….(update with picture)
I hate seafood. Not all seafood, but mostly, if it lived in any sort of water, I don’t eat it. I especially am grossed out by SEEING eyes on something I am about to eat. There is this place where my dad lives that you can go into and it has a claw machine. You know the kind that you play in an arcade to win stuffed animals your never going to get? Well, right in the restaurant they have one and instead of stuffed animals, you pick up your LIVE LOBSTER for dinner with the claw. To make it worse, they have like $20 and $5 stuck on their pinchers…I suppose that makes it more ‘fun’ if you catch one.
Play with your dinner before you eat it. Awesome.
But the main reason is that I grew up on a beach half my life and I would wake up in the morning and smell the sweet air of rotten seaweed that blew in. Sniff a bit of that every few weeks, and seafood starts to make your stomach turn.
I once had a crawfish salad at a friends house when I was about 14. Surprisingly, not terrible, but its the whole eyes and head thing. On our wedding night, we had steak and lobster….no thanks. No lobster for moi. You can save that painful agonizing death of live boiling for someone elses plate.
I can have three types of seafood:
- 1) baby shrimps at Japanese steakhouses..the ones they flip around during the show smothered in soy and butter
- 2) Mahi Mahi (preferably grilled between two buns on Miami Beach)
- 3) Tilapia
Now, in our house, we are almost only chicken eaters. Charlotte wont touch red meat and anytime DH or I eat it, we both get slightly sick. As you can imagine, no matter how you make it, after a while, all chicken tastes the same. So yesterday at the grochery store, I branched out. I bought Tilapia. We live right near the water, so surely its fresh. I did have the mind to go to the butcher counter and get their preasoned throw it on the grille/oven/however you cook it, since I have never in my life made any sort of fish that didn’t encompass a box and some time in a deep fryer.
I’m a little wary about tonight’s ‘branching out’.
How the hell do I cook this? What if I poison my entire family? I guess it will be ok as long as I don’t find eyes on it.
~Trisha
Update**********************
Here is the final result. It wasn’t that bad if you ate it with the rice and some lemon. Undecided on a repeat.
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That looks delicious, but I’m with you on seeing eyes on it. YUCKO!
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I love seafood. We had Tilapia just last night.
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The finally results looks yummy!
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Tilapia is the only fish that everyone in my house will eat. It doesn’t taste fishy.
My mom makes it, but she bakes it. I have fried it with butter and Italian bread crumbs for just me for lunch several times, and I like it.
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I love Tilapia! and it’s very healthy! We try to eat fish at least once a week. It looks like it turned out good! We like to broil ours.
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Suggestion for next time. My family and I have tilapia about once a week. Throw it in a pregreased baking dish, sprinkle with lemon, dill, parmesan, paprika, and also a little butter. I think you bake it at 375 (might be higher) for about 20 mins. When it begins to flake with a fork it’s done. It will taste awesome this way, guaranteed. You should definitely try it again since fish is such a healthy dinner
Tilapia is an african fish so if they are advertising it fresh you know it’s farm raised.
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I really like talipia. I find it is quick and easy to cook. Good job venturing out.
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How’d it turn out?
Living in New Orleans, you just can’t avoid seafood. I love me some crawfish!!!!!!
You are braver than I. I can’t stand ANYTHING seafood. We go to Red Lobster, I get chicken lol.
yuck i hate fish. i can do shell fish but not the real deal lol
So how did it go??
Here’s your recipe – or as close to a recipe as I ever get anyway…
Take your fillets and coat them with some mayo.
Roll them in a blend of breadcrumbs, parmesean cheese (the shakey cheese kind – as my children call it) and Old Bay seasoning (to taste).
Melt a tablespoon of butter in the bottom of a shallow baking dish and lay your fillets in a single layer. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes or until crispy.
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Good luck, I’m of no help. I eat nothing that came out of the water, no fish, shrimp, shells, it’s all terrible. Toss a good old filet mignon on my plate please.
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I’ve never had tilapia.
I like baked fish like this:
In a food processor, combine one sleeve saltine crackers with one can french fried onions (like from green bean casserole).
Rinse fish under cold water and dry with a paper towel.
Bread the fish, using ranch dressing as the liquid, and your cracker/onion crumbs as the coating.
Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
Spray a pie plate or baking dish with non-stick cooking spray.
Place fish in the dish with the skin side down. Measure the thickest area of the fish and bake for 5 to 10 minutes per inch.
THIS IS NOT A FAT-FREE RECIPE!
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I bought tilapia for my in laws while they were here over Thanksgiving because we don’t eat anything that swims either. The guy at the fish counter told me it’s the most forgiving and least fishy smelling fish you can buy (when it’s fresh). Mine were thin to medium sliced, so he recommended 2-3 min per side. If you grill, it was recommended you put down foil. At least that’s what he told me when I asked because the tilapia will flake. I did the in laws’ in a non stick pan with some olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and onion powder (our standard meat seasoning). They said it was good and asked for the recipe. I personally can’t vouch for it because I didn’t taste it. I’d rather give my husband a blow job than eat fish.
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Hubby bakes Tilapia in the oven alot. It’s not at all fishy so I like it. It takes on the taste of what you cook it with well.
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Unfortunately, no recipe on this one..im flying solo
You’ll do fine honey. Just follow a recipe
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I would cook it either: saute in a pan with some butter or evoo. On a foil lined baking dish in the oven, or if it’s firm enough, on a piece of foil on the grill. Or, you could even wrap it in foil and pop it on the grill, probably 6-8ish minutes on each side. No matter what type of cooking method, top with a squirt of lemon. It’ll be perfect!
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I’m a chicken or turkey kind of girl. I don’t cook anything else, partly because of my tastes and what not. But I have never cooked fish or eaten fish. The only seafood I will eat is shrimp, that’s it.
I wish I had more ideas for you, but sadly I don’t. I do wish you luck though.
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thats it, huh..just throw it in a pan. Ok, im going to try! how do iknow its done?
Ooooh, I love tilapia. Just pan fry it. SIMPLE!