Also I think, it's a fresh water fish!!!

On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:58:42 -0400, Landon > wrote:

>On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:44:51 -0400, wrote:
>
>>My wife wants me to cook tilapia. I've never had it. First off, is it a "fishy"
>>tasting fish or nice and clean tasting like flounder, cod, halibut, etc? I don't
>>like fishy tasting. And does anyone have a nice, simple oven baked recipe for
>>it? I have yellow corn meal, flour, Old Bay seasoning and some other spices.
>>Also, anyone here do fried flounder? Have a simple recipe for that too/ Thanks.
>>And yes, I know there's Google, but I like to pick the brains of people who
>>actually do the cooking.
>
>Tilapia is a very mild tasting fish. Similar in strength of flavor to
>flounder.
>
>It's so mild tasting that you probably want to stay away from the
>stronger tasting seasonings like Old Bay unless you use a very, very
>tiny bit of it.
>
>My favorite method of cooking both Tilapia and Flounder is to sauté
>them in butter and green onion slices, turning only once, very gently.
>
>They both cook very fast, flake easily and are perfect with only the
>melted butter on them with a prettying up of parsley flakes.