On Mar 6, 2:44*pm, Bryan > wrote:
> On Mar 6, 3:26*pm, Portland > wrote:
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> > On Mar 6, 3:27*pm, Bryan > wrote:
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> > > On Mar 6, 1:41*pm, Portland > wrote:
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> > > > On Mar 6, 2:21*pm, ImStillMags > wrote:
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> > > > > On Mar 6, 11:19*am, Portland > wrote:
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> > > > > > What is Tilapia like? *I'm not a big fish eater, but they sell them
> > > > > > from a tank at the nearby supermarket, and I was thinking of giving
> > > > > > them a try. *So they shouldn't, since they're so fresh, they shouldn't
> > > > > > taste fishy at all?
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> > > > >http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=16...bsrc=tilapia&g...
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> > > > That's an informative site. *I also found this:http://fishcooking..about.com/od/mee.../p/tilapia.htm
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> > > > This is what I might like about this fish: (Nice and boring; doesn't
> > > > taste like fish.)
> > > > One thing I don't like about tuna is it's richness. *I must be
> > > > allergic to it or something, because I don't feel very well after I
> > > > eat a tuna steak.
> > > > {
> > > > What does tilapia taste like? Well...not much. It is very lean, very
> > > > white and very high in protein. And it has almost no flavor of its
> > > > own. Personally, I find it boring. Give me a rich, fatty tuna or even
> > > > an anchovy any day. Tilapia doesn't "taste like fish," which is why it
> > > > is so popular in the United States.
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> > > I love it. *It's what's for dinner, salted, peppered, dredged in corn
> > > meal and fried in peanut oil with fresh lemons to squeeze on.

Why peanut oil and not, say, canola/rapeseed?

> > > --Bryan
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> > Sounds excellent. *I'll omit the salt though; health reasons. *Maybe
> > black cracked peppercorn and a paprika rub? *Blacken it somewhat?
> > I don't know how much mercury it contains. *One site I visited says
> > that it can be eaten safely 4 times per week.
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> I just use fresh ground black pepper and salt. *Then I coat them with
> yellow corn meal and fry in peanut oil. *I got a 24oz bag of them
> today at Aldi, and these things are whoppers. *Only five fillets.

So, that's less than 5oz per flillet? Is that a "whopper"? Compared to
what? Sardines? :-)

> *I'm
> having to cut up the fillets so I can fry them.

Are you cutting them bite-size?