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dreamerdreaming -> RE: What kind of fish would be good for someone who thinks fish is disgusting but would like 2 try again (1/16/2009 7:50:05 PM)
You are 25 and have never had smoked oysters, or Alaskan king crab? Or even just a lobster tail all your own? Oh, the humanity. You poor, poor Dear. pats hand There, there... You are in California now, there is no need for you to suffer any longer. To make up for lost time, I recommend heading straight for Red Lobster ASAP, they do Alaskan king crab very well and you probably won't get it cheaper anywhere else. scurries away to call Mom and Dad and thank them for a fabulous childhood

lucyNEEDSaDaddy -> RE: What kind of fish would be good for someone who thinks fish is disgusting but would like 2 try again (1/16/2009 7:52:38 PM)
i love orange roughie... its a flakey white fish. use some blackening seasoning and broil it. YUM

Rainfire -> RE: What kind of fish would be good for someone who thinks fish is disgusting but would like 2 try again (1/16/2009 7:53:31 PM)
I'm a bit odd, I can't stand cooked fish. Love sushi though, OMG, do I love sushi!!! I can live on it. And having lived in Japan-town in San Jose, did, for quite a bit. Smoked salmon (known as lox if you go to a deli) is mouth-watering delicious. The important thing is how the fish is prepared and how fresh it is.....

winterlight -> RE: What kind of fish would be good for someone who thinks fish is disgusting but would like 2 try again (1/16/2009 8:21:28 PM)
I have never had orange roughy. Is it a strong tasting Fish?

agentlespirit -> RE: What kind of fish would be good for someone who thinks fish is disgusting but would like 2 try again (1/16/2009 8:26:29 PM)
i love salmon but that might be too strong.....is talipia available near you? it is a very mild tasting fish...comes in fillets...saute them in a small amount of olive oil after seasoning to your taste (sometimes i just sprinkle Lawry's Seasoning Salt on them and some fresh cracked black pepper).....very delicious....with a nice big fresh tossed salad smiles

Owner59 -> RE: What kind of fish would be good for someone who thinks fish is disgusting but would like 2 try a (1/16/2009 8:37:28 PM)
Flounder,breaded and broiled w/ butter. King crab legs w/ butter. Shrimp any style.I make my own horseradish cocktail sauce.Shrimp tempura in heaven(with the right sauce). My main meal is a tuna salad sandwich,mid-day(my supper is only a snack eaten hours before bed so I sleep empty).

amativedame -> RE: What kind of fish would be good for someone who thinks fish is disgusting but would like 2 try again (1/16/2009 8:39:31 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: YourhandMyAss The only experience I have ever had with eating fish was my moms cooking, and I Realize she's not the greatest cook so the sampling of fish I hated when she forced me to eat it as a child, isn't always such an accurate image of fish. The main problem with fish, I have is most the kind she cooks stinks, the house smells horrible for weeks, it tastes about as fishy as it stinks, and they look absolutely gross, when they come from the fish department. I do know I don't really like shrimp based on having it a few times, unless it's been fried, like coconut fried prawns. I have heard salmon isn't the best fish to try if you're biased against the taste of fish, but other than the opinions of the waiters at Red lobster, advising that if you don't like fish you probably wouldn't like the salmon, I know nothing of fish. I love seafood, but I generally dislike fish. Why? Fish... is fishy. The smell of canned tuna turns my stomach. In terms of not liking fish and wanting to broaden your horizons, I would really recommend some kind of white fish. Flounder, Talapia, Haddock and a good tuna steak (since you mentioned liking tuna. Tuna steaks are sooo easy to cook.) Personally, I love mahi mahi and cook it all the time. Personally, I would never recommend that you judge fish... by a dish at red lobster. Chain food, is always chain food and quality always suffers. The only time I've ever had decent fish at a chain resturant was at the Bonefish Grill, and I think thats just luck. Cooking it at home allows you to control the quality, and unless you work in the kitchen of the resturant you're eating in you never really know what happens there or where the food comes from. Its also worth saying that humans are habitual animals... and a lot of time we have to eat something several times to really start to like it.

Decadentpleasure -> RE: What kind of fish would be good for someone who thinks fish is disgusting but would like 2 try again (1/16/2009 8:52:14 PM)
my 21 y/o daughter absolutely hates fish and always says it smells like low-tide to her, which makes it difficult when i try to get her to try a seafood dish i think she may like. So far the only type of seafood i've been successful in getting her to at least try and on rare occasion have again, is popcorn shrimp and crab. i know where she got her aversion to fish, it was from years and years of walking into her friends house and being greeted by the perpetual odor of cod. She has agreed to try this one dish i make: seafood casserole, which is simply a casserole made of tilapia fillets cut into small pieces, mixed with stuffing, celery, onion, lemon, and butter. The smell isn't over powering and is very mild. (She came home one night to be greeted by the smell of it cooking in the oven and wanted to know what it was because to her it smelled good. Once she found out it had seafood in it, she wasn't interested.) As far as not knowing much about fish..neither do i..but what i do know will be helpful to you. my mother always told me that all fish will have an odor, but when it smells particularly fishy..then in all likelihood, its gone bad. (which is kind of funny since all fish sorta smells fishy).

subfever -> RE: What kind of fish would be good for someone who thinks fish is disgusting but would like 2 try again (1/16/2009 8:55:48 PM)
quote: What kind of fish would be good for someone who thinks fish is disgusting but would like 2 try again? Try slimehead. Mmm... I've been told that slimehead was the name of the fish, before it began being harvested by commercial fisherman for mass distribution. Then they changed the name to Orange Roughy, to make it marketable.

faithfulfemme -> RE: What kind of fish would be good for someone who thinks fish is disgusting but would like 2 try again (1/16/2009 8:56:54 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: YourhandMyAss The only experience I have ever had with eating fish was my moms cooking, and I Realize she's not the greatest cook so the sampling of fish I hated when she forced me to eat it as a child, isn't always such an accurate image of fish. The main problem with fish, I have is most the kind she cooks stinks, the house smells horrible for weeks, it tastes about as fishy as it stinks, and they look absolutely gross, when they come from the fish department. I do know I don't really like shrimp based on having it a few times, unless it's been fried, like coconut fried prawns. I have heard salmon isn't the best fish to try if you're biased against the taste of fish, but other than the opinions of the waiters at Red lobster, advising that if you don't like fish you probably wouldn't like the salmon, I know nothing of fish. The best fish to eat if you don't like the taste of fish is shark. It has no bones to fool with, is flaky like chicken, has NO fishy taste, and doesn't stink up the house like dead mackerel when you cook it. Honestly, i'm not crazy about fish either--hate trout and bass--but i can deal with shark. Shark can be refridgerated for a couple of days--ONLY a couple of days--before you cook it. When cooking shark, put whatever spices you like in some flour, salt, pepper, garlic powder, whatever, and then dredge the meat in it. Saute it in a pan with extra virgin olive oil about 4 minutes per side, medium heat, if the meat is on the thick side. As for salmon, those waiters at the Red Lobster are handing you some bad advice. Salmon has very little fishy taste if it's fresh. It's nasty if it's sat around for a while. Go to the fish area of the meat department and if they have salmon, ask the butcher to put a piece of it on some butcher paper and then take it from him and smell it. If it smells like fish, it's not fresh. And don't be embarrassed to ask to smell it......there's lots of us shoppers who do the same thing. Take the salmon home and cook it that night. Don't let it sit in the 'fridge for any time. Season it with whatever spices you like, saute it in a pan with extra virgin olive oil, and cook it skin side down first for about 3-4 mins per side....yummmm.....you can squeeze lemon on it, too, but i prefer it just as it comes from the pan. Talapia is the best fish for fish tacos, imho. i fix them like they do in Mexico.....i put the talapia in the pan with EVOO and shred it as it cooks, just a couple of minutes. Then i put it in a tortilla and place raw, shredded cabbage on top of the talapia and pour a white sauce over it made from equal parts of plain yogurt and sour cream, and then squeeze just a bit of lime on top.....yummmm.... *Good luck with your fish eating adventure......just try the shark first.....[:)]*

subfever -> RE: What kind of fish would be good for someone who thinks fish is disgusting but would like 2 try again (1/16/2009 9:01:38 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: kittinSol ...and monkfish (cooked with leeks, with baby new potatoes)... I'll be damned, I've forgotten all about monkfish. They used to call it "Poor Man's Lobster" in these parts. Used to prepare it broiled, with lemon and drawn butter. Excellent. Haven't seen it around here for some time now. But then, I haven't looked very hard either. But grouper is probably my favorite all-around. Edited to add: I had mahi mahi (dolphin) tonight, and it was very good. I'd put it in my top 5.

Decadentpleasure -> RE: What kind of fish would be good for someone who thinks fish is disgusting but would like 2 try again (1/16/2009 9:03:58 PM)
i've never tried shark before, but the way you've described it..ooooo..i want to try it.

subfever -> RE: What kind of fish would be good for someone who thinks fish is disgusting but would like 2 try again (1/16/2009 9:08:03 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Decadentpleasure i've never tried shark before, but the way you've described it..ooooo..i want to try it. Shark is pretty good, especially if one isn't crazy about fish taste. Halibut might be considered also... though I haven't seen that around much lately either.

YourhandMyAss -> RE: What kind of fish would be good for someone who thinks fish is disgusting but would like 2 try again (1/16/2009 9:19:50 PM)
The most important thing for me, is to like eating it, because like I tell my mom, when she starts harping on me for my refusal to eat fish and she's like well it's healthy for you, I don't care how healthy it is for you, if I don't like it I refuse to eat it. If it tastes so disgusting I want to spit it out and go brush my teeth, Or so gross or un appealing I will not finish the plate,* and trust me I can be pretty determined to finish the plate I don't like wasting food* It's not getting a second chance. eating it over and over and over AND OVER, isn't going to change my opinion on it, I will never like something I disliked the first few times just cause I've eaten it about a dozen of times, it just doesn't work that way. There are far to many other healthy options to put up with something that I find personally disgusting or tastes awful. I used to love Mango pineapple and apple juice and Orange juice and stuff. But because the sugar levels I don't drink juice any more. Very rarely I will drink OJ, but it's a very tiny portion of it. My doctor didn't really approve of me drinking fruit juices, and other kinds of juices. Most of them are full of sugar , Orange juice matches and surpass the sugar amounts of Pepsi, and comes close to matching coke as well. If you get 100 percent all natural the sugar can double that of other juices. It's also got corn syrup and fructose in it, and I may fail at noticing fructose and corn syrup in other things, since it's in almost every single thing out there that I will eat, however I do , do what I can in staying away from it by not drinking fruit juice, or other juices, like V8. You can indeed try something once and like it instantly, It's how I got turned on to eating bell peppers, and I ate a bite of bell pepper last year, and have craved and loved it ever since. Course I understand to try something once and immediatly love it or like it lots is rare. I eat mostly packaged stuff, or stuff that is easy to fix, and doesn't require much if any amount of cooking. microwavable meals, cans of soup, baked potato's, scrambled, or hard boiled eggs, and then if mom or dad is cooking something I like and will eat I eat what they're fixing for the whole family since as most of you know Daddy and I rent the garage and live with my parents. All though I have been eating grapes and avicados and stuff just about nearly every day, and was eating bell peppers everyday just recently untill I ran out. Next time the family goes grocery shopping, I want fresh corn on the cob, and more bell peppers, more grapes and more Pink lady apples. quote: ORIGINAL: BbwCanaDomme So between not eating fish, and not eating vegetables, what do you eat? Seriously, you're an adult. If you're trying to change your eating habits to improve your health, suck it up and learn to eat healthy foods. Refine your palette. You're not going to try things and like them immediately, just keep eating them until they taste good to you. Think of food as fuel to keep functioning. In regards to fish oil, a lot orange juices are fortified with it now, look into having a glass a day.

igor2003 -> RE: What kind of fish would be good for someone who thinks fish is disgusting but would like 2 try again (1/16/2009 9:35:02 PM)
In looking at most of the replies people are suggesting ideas for what you can buy at a store, market, or resteraunt, most of which is either ocean grown fish or crustacians. I'm not too much of a seafood person myself, but I do enjoy a good salmon steak when it is fixed right. What is "fixed right"? LOL....I don't know, I've never cooked it myself, but I've had some that was spectacular! For the most part I stick pretty much with freshwater fish. Trout is really good as long as it is wild and not hatchery grown, or if it has lived in the wild long enough to get it's pink flesh. Probably my favorite, though not necessarily the healthiest, are fish such as crappie, bluegill, perch, and bass, filleted, then fried in a light batter. Unfortunately, to get most of those you will probably have to turn into a fisherman (fisherwoman?) and go catch them yourself.

YourhandMyAss -> RE: What kind of fish would be good for someone who thinks fish is disgusting but would like 2 try again (1/16/2009 9:37:39 PM)
Ironically igor, while I don't like to fish in real life, since I think it's cruel to fish for the fun of it, if I am not going to eat what I was fishing for, and quite boreing to boot, I did love fishing on the game cube game animal crossing lol. quote: ORIGINAL: igor2003 Probably my favorite, though not necessarily the healthiest, are fish such as crappie, bluegill, perch, and bass, filleted, then fried in a light batter. Unfortunately, to get most of those you will probably have to turn into a fisherman (fisherwoman?) and go catch them yourself.

YourhandMyAss -> RE: What kind of fish would be good for someone who thinks fish is disgusting but would like 2 try again (1/16/2009 9:39:14 PM)
You can get it from Red Lobster and other places that serve fish, no idea though if you can get it from a store and home cook it. Tossed salads are Nummy, I don't even put salad dressing or anything on the green salads my mom makes, I just eat them as is:) quote: ORIGINAL: agentlespirit i love salmon but that might be too strong.....is talipia available near you? it is a very mild tasting fish...comes in fillets...saute them in a small amount of olive oil after seasoning to your taste (sometimes i just sprinkle Lawry's Seasoning Salt on them and some fresh cracked black pepper).....very delicious....with a nice big fresh tossed salad smiles

YourhandMyAss -> RE: What kind of fish would be good for someone who thinks fish is disgusting but would like 2 try again (1/16/2009 9:40:17 PM)
26, my profiles probably not updated:) And nope, never had any of that stuff:) quote: ORIGINAL: dreamerdreaming You are 25 and have never had smoked oysters, or Alaskan king crab? Or even just a lobster tail all your own? Oh, the humanity. You poor, poor Dear. pats hand There, there... You are in California now, there is no need for you to suffer any longer. To make up for lost time, I recommend heading straight for Red Lobster ASAP, they do Alaskan king crab very well and you probably won't get it cheaper anywhere else. scurries away to call Mom and Dad and thank them for a fabulous childhood

dreamerdreaming -> RE: What kind of fish would be good for someone who thinks fish is disgusting but would like 2 try again (1/16/2009 9:45:22 PM)
I like you! You are brave to want to try something which in the past has turned your stomach. And wise, to know that tastes change as you get older, and you may now like (or even love) something that you previously despised. Explore, and have FUN!

YourhandMyAss -> RE: What kind of fish would be good for someone who thinks fish is disgusting but would like 2 try again (1/16/2009 9:45:51 PM)
I am laughing in real life about your Daughters reaction, to finding out what smelled so good. Reminds me of the days my brother was a boyscout, They had a motto something along the line of don't ask what it is, you'll be sorry. I can't remember exactly. I have heard if the fish have cloudy or milky eyes, they're not fresh. Other than that, how do you tell if store bought fishies are fresh? quote: ORIGINAL: Decadentpleasure my 21 y/o daughter absolutely hates fish and always says it smells like low-tide to her, which makes it difficult when i try to get her to try a seafood dish i think she may like. So far the only type of seafood i've been successful in getting her to at least try and on rare occasion have again, is popcorn shrimp and crab. i know where she got her aversion to fish, it was from years and years of walking into her friends house and being greeted by the perpetual odor of cod. She has agreed to try this one dish i make: seafood casserole, which is simply a casserole made of tilapia fillets cut into small pieces, mixed with stuffing, celery, onion, lemon, and butter. The smell isn't over powering and is very mild. (She came home one night to be greeted by the smell of it cooking in the oven and wanted to know what it was because to her it smelled good. Once she found out it had seafood in it, she wasn't interested.) As far as not knowing much about fish..neither do i..but what i do know will be helpful to you. my mother always told me that all fish will have an odor, but when it smells particularly fishy..then in all likelihood, its gone bad. (which is kind of funny since all fish sorta smells fishy).

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