Nancy2 wrote:
> On Mar 5, 12:24 pm, "jmcquown" > wrote:
>> "Nancy2" > wrote in message
>>
>> ...
>> On Mar 5, 12:26 am, wrote:
>>
>>> How do I do simple fried (breaded) catfish? I don't have a deep fryer, Any
>>> favorite recipes out there? Thanks.
>> Tasty! (I love fried catfish, but refuse to buy farmed fish of any
>> kind, so I wait for fresh.)
>>
>> N.
>>
>> You're lucky you can find fresh catfish. Where I live (even when I was back
>> in TN) there was no "fresh" catfish. They don't fish the Mississippi river
>> or it's tributaries anymore due to pollution. All that was available was
>> flash frozen fish. Not that there's anything wrong with it if you're
>> land-locked Here in SC I can get lots of fresh shrimp (in season),
>> sometimes fresh blue crab (in season), but not a lot of fish (sal****er or
>> otherwise). I like catfish. But I prefer cod for a fish fry
>>
>> Jill
>
> I wait for huntin'-fishin' fool of a son to bring them to me.
> Seasonally, of course ;-)
>
> N.

That must be nice! But I don't have anyone to do that for
me. Sigh! I'm not much of a fisherperson myself. If I don't
catch something almost as soon as I throw my line in the water
I get bored.

But back when I was a kid I used to love to go fishing with my
grandfather. We'd go to a lake for summer vacation and he and
I and my sister would get up at 4am and go out in the rowboat
and fish. We caught sunfish, bluegills, and catfish.

When we got back to the cabin we would clean them and the way
my grandfather did the catfish was to cut through the skin all
the way around the body just under the head. Then he would
nail the head to a tree and grab the skin on either side with
pliers and pull it down and off (like taking off knee socks ;-)).

My grandmother would be up by then and we'd take all the fish
and fry them up for breakfast. She just "breaded" them with
cornmeal. Best breakfasts I ever had.

Nowadays I'm more squeamish about things like killing things,
even fish - even worms! So I don't really want to fish unless
there's someone else there to do the dirty work. Once they're
dead I'm good. ;-)

So, I'm quite happy to buy farmed catfish these days. Yum!

Kate

--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?