Outside the dugout: What's cooking?

Cedar Key clams are in reality farm raised and they are pretty good.

Farm raised fish usually is awful. Fit for dogs. LOL. Tilapia can be fried for a sandwich and is edible, but not great. I would never search it out for making dinner.

Farm raised shrimp can be OK in spicy dishes where I want more of the texture than the flavor, like when I make pickled shrimp with serrano chilies and sliced fennel. When you want the shrimp flavor to shine ain't nothing better than wild caught gulf shrimp.

 

Getting a snook to cook usually means catching one yourself unless you have a REALLY good friend that fishes. It is a sport fish.

Add cobia to the really good tasting fish from the Gulf.

 

The best fish I ever ate was native brook trout caught in northern Wisconsin and fried in butter for breakfast. The brookies were swimming in the bucket water minutes before being cooked and only about 6 to 8 inches long. I remember the boy that brought them to my great aunt that was the school teacher in a small town north of Green Bay. I think I was five or six years old when I ate them and it still is one of my favorite tastes.

 

It has been a long time since I ate snook. Kind of like grouper IIRC which means that it is awesome.

As for redfish I ate a lot of it that I caught back in the 1960's when on vacation to Estero Island and it was on the "fishy" side. It was OK and not a fish that I really wanted to catch for dinner. I much preferred flounder. Sheepshead was also tasty.

And then a NOLA chef blackened them and they were all the rage.

 

Tonight we are making lots of enchiladas with the leftover carnitas and the leftover smoked chicken.

 

Your post reminded me of a dinner from 1982 when I was newly married to a girl/woman that grew up in Cincinnati. She told me she didn't like fish and from the kind of fish she was probably served in her youth I could understand why. But I got some grouper and prepared it for dinner. Her comment was "It's not bad. Kind of tastes like chicken."

My reply was "Next time I will prepare grouper for me and cook you some chicken."

She has come around over the years.

 

OK, change of plans with tonight's dinner.

Warmed up frozen pizza and tortellini salad.

Not what I wanted, but I was overruled.

 

On a different note both for me and my MIL that lives in a unit we built on our property, but we are now both "fully vaccinated". I got to hug her for the first time in a year and I love her.

We are getting over this.

Don't think that we are totally over this. Think about the Falcons and when it looked like they had it won.

 

You sometimes have to do what somebody thinks is correct even if you don't think it is correct. It not being a big deal I will give it up.

 

If you ever had my margaritas you would never choose Dos Equis instead.

And "frozen" margaritas is an abomination. It is just trying to hide bad tequila.