fish!

[meggo]

what are some of your favourite [and EASY] recipes with fish? preferably without the mercury... i got this from the health canada website RE healthy fatty acids & unhealthy mercury:

"Some types of fish have higher levels of these beneficial fatty acids than others. Fish and shellfish that contain higher levels of these fatty acids and are also low in mercury include: anchovy, capelin, char, hake, herring, Atlantic mackerel, mullet, pollock ( Boston bluefish), salmon, smelt, rainbow trout, lake whitefish, blue crab, shrimp, clam, mussel and oyster

[fish with higher levels of mercury] These include fresh/frozen tuna, shark, swordfish, marlin, orange roughy and escolar"

then there was this info from "perinatology.org":

"[Washington state Dept of health] Advises women of childbearing age to:

* Limit tuna steaks, halibut, orange roughy to one meal per month

* Limit cod, pollock, haddock, tuna (6ounce can) to one meal per week

* Limit salmon and shellfish to 2 to 3 meals per week.

The Environmental Working Group lists other types of fish that may be contaminated by mercury, as well as by PCBs, include bluefish and striped bass, and freshwater fish (such as salmon, pike, trout, walleye) from contaminated lakes and rivers. "

soooo... ideas?

[phorbesie]

i have a yummy sauce but i am too lazy to type up the recipe for it right now. how about you and drawk come over for dinner and i'll make it for you then!

[headymamamyrna]

Is it the white sauce?

[Ol'Hickster]

For fish I like Hadock in your basic cracker crumb coat and pan fried lol and my scallops right out of the shell the only way I like em!

[meggo]

phorbesie - sounds like a plan

d. is not a big fish-lover but i would like to incorporate some of the healthier ones into our diet.

[phorbesie]

well, i'll keep a bag of chips handy in case he doesn't like it. it works with velvet

[phorbesie]

Is it the white sauce?

i don't know which white sauce you mean, but no, this is a green sauce. i'll get around to typing it out sometime!

[Blane]

I love Tilapia with a thai sauce (lime, stock, chilies, garlic, fish sauce, sugar,grated coriander root, corn starch).

I also love red snapper grilled with coarse sea salt and stuffed with lemon and onion.

[phishtaper]

I love Tilapia with a thai sauce (lime, stock, chilies, garlic, fish sauce, sugar,grated coriander root, corn starch).

we've been having Tilapia a lot lately. it's a great, mild, versatile white fish.

[Ms.Huxtable]

I guess my all-time favorite fish dish that we cook is also one of the simplest.

Salmon filet with PC "Memories of Montego Bay" jerk sauce. Pan fried, grilled or baked, it's all good.

Mike and I have a killer beer batter that's good for onion rings or fish, but that doesn't help you incorporate the healthier side of fish into your diet.

[Ms Zimmy]

I used to bake salmon in a bit of orange juice, with lots of dill, garlic and pepper.

Poached salmon is great too, make a dill sauce with it and garlic mashed potatoes.

All the other fish I ever ate was fresh from the lake. I would BBQ it or roast it on a fire.

[AD]

i bake salmon with diced onions and tomatoes on top, just a bit of olive oil, and some spices to suit your taste. served with grain-mustard mashed potatoes.

that is what i'm having for dinner tonight, btw.

teriyaki salmon is delish too.

great deals on huge salmon fillets at costco.

[Ms.Huxtable]

When we were in Belize we ate a lot of snapper. Since we've been home we've we've cooked it a few times and each time was delicious. I know we did it whole, once steamed, once deep fried and once baked. I like whole fish, it's easy, looks pretty and forces you to eat nice and slow.

[Ol'Hickster]

Ive never had Snapper HEard great things though Im not too fussy when it comes to Salmon though I find it real rich and I used to work at a salmon farm for a coupel summer when I was in High schoool So I had my fair share of salmon lol

[Davey Boy 2.0]

Catphish (o the irony!) found this tidbit about Tilapia and Basa

[ollie]

I'd never heard of Basa fish until about a week ago and now I see it everywhere. What's up with that?

[phishtaper]

wow. troubling to say the least. thanks for posting, Davey Boy.

so, would y'all just stop eating tilapia altogether? ive never heard of basa either. but we've been eating some tilapia lately.

[Davey Boy 2.0]

we're leaning toward doing some more reading and figuring out what's the best option.

unfortunately our little one doesn't like salmon otherwise we'd probably get the farmed stuff fairly regularly