Rolling a thin fresh fish filet around a pickle spear, secured with a toothpick, preserved in spiced vinegar, cured in the jar, ready for a delicious lunch with home baked bread after pickling. Improperly Fermented fish is a source of botulism in Alaska. Here is the safe method: keep in fridge, use in less than two weeks.

If you can get pollock filets, usually a quarter pound per filet, inexpensive, fresh or frozen, a pound makes a great dinner for 2, you are lucky, it is a tender, mild fish.This recipe coats fresh pesto sauce inside rolled up mild pollock and is served with other mild side dishes like steamed spinach and steamed rice.

If you can buy a whole salmon, go for it. The salmon sides with the filets are great for curing, that is making kosher lox or gravlax or smoked salmon, recipes in here. The salmon head and trimmings make bouillabaise soup, recipe in here. Salmon tail meat is a culinary feast, stays crispier than salmon filets. Only 15 minutes to cook. The leftover skin and bones make a great fish broth. Nothing gets wasted, at half the cost of salmon filet at the farmers market.

When Mardi Gras was over, our family used to switch to no meat dinners, mainly fish. Here is our favorite family recipe for cod. Mom used peach, pine apple, any sweet fruit, canned or fresh.

Spicy Catfish Nuggets are all-you-can-eat finger food. Served with two other finger foods, crispy sweet potato french fries, and breaded winter carrot rounds. Washed down with apple cider or beer.Served family style with ketchup, tartar sauce, buttermilk dip, you fill your own plate and enjoy sharing food and company.All food items are deep fried in the same oil, potatoes first, carrots next, fish is last, because the oil absorbs the fish odor and taste. The fish oil is kept in a separate container to be reused for future fish frying only.

We like to grill a whole fish per person, head on, 2/3 pounds, for dinner and leftover fish bouillion, like pompano, butterfish or tilapia. Rubbed inside with soy sauce, barbecued with a slice of lemon inside. These bony fishes grill well, flakey and juicy without oily taste, on the barbecue, cook in minutes, with a hint of smoke. Leftover grates, bones, skin and heads are saved to make delicious fishbroth for freezing.Served with black bean and tomato sweet and sour lemon onion salad side dish, fresh pickled kimchi and fresh rhubarb dessert.

Catfish is a succulent tender freshwater fish that is always briefly marinaded before cooking to remove any hint of muddy water taste. We use milk or yoghurt. This simple recipe simmers the fish filets in a carmelized lemon butter sauce with capers. Served with frozen spinach and hand made potato tater tots.#CA2025

You can buy a four pound whole octopus, tenderize it and deep fry it into calimari. You dont have to beat it with a mallet to tenderize it, follow this recipe. A four day feast, Eating half a pound of calamari a day prepared different ways.I have posted proven, tested calamari recipes before, but never a tempura deep fried recipe. Here it is. If you buy a whole octopus, I recommend a deep fried dinner, stuffed dinner, sauteed dinner, pickled dinner and calamari salad.Serve with icecold white wine.#CA2025

Great easy recipe to precook salmon for your freezer. Ready in minutes when you need to make a quick lunch or dinner. The hamburger helper from the ocean.

Steam and peel any seafood with lemon, lime, celery, onion and parsley. Save the broth to make shrimp bisque soup. Fold peeled seafood into a glass bowl in egg and mustard paprika sauce. Broil 15 minutes to a golden bread egg crumb crust. Serve with special seafood sauce, rouille. Recipe included.

Spring is here, the smelt are running, time for an outside fish fry on the barbecue, so you dont get a fish fry odor in your kitchen.Smelt is sweeter and milder than trout or catfish, and the hot smoked paprika spice gives it a wonderful bite.

No meat for forty days after Mardi Gras is an old tradition in our family, my pantry is full of wonderfull ingredients to make delicious family meals without meats.This is my potato fish dinner salad favorite. See also our other fish recipes in here: Cured salmon is a delicacy. Smoked fish is another. Deep fried crispy fish is another. Salmon omelettes are always a dinner hit. Fish soup, bouillabaisse, is a meal in itself. Shrimp salad in avocados, a winner. Steamed trout on scallions. Since most fish is mild in flavor, the sauces and cures make all the difference. Follow them in my recipes, adjust them to your taste, let me know. Easy to have a full week of different dinners and never miss the meat.