I'll be honest, I've never cooked fish before other then baking salmon. I absolutely love fish so I can't explain why I haven't pan fried fish before. Matt has always cooked it since we've been together. Prior to that I never cooked fish because nobody in the family liked fish except for myself so I would have it when we went out to eat on occasion.
Tonight I braved the scary world of fish cooking and I aced it. I saw the recipe for Asian Glazed Tilapia on The Frugal Girl's Blog and thought it looked delicious so I added it to the menu for this week. I had originally thought to substitute salmon since Aldi's lowered their salmon price but when I went shopping I stopped at Krogers first and they had tilapia on sale for almost the same price so I grabbed the fresh tilapia. The one thing I might alter in this recipe is adding either a scallion or green onions to it. I served it with Dole's Asian Island Salad and it was a nice light meal which I can safely say will be repeated over the summer. This is an awesome fast recipe, which probably took me about 15 minutes and that included opening and preparing the salad.
Matt has been telling me for years about these fish tacos he had out in California and after tasting the glazed fish he said the fish tasted just like the fish in those tacos so I'm anticipating fish tacos will be appearing on the menu using this recipe too.
One word of caution regarding buying fish at the fish counter - watch the weight. I told the guy I wanted 1 pound and didn't realize until I went to check out and saw the price that he'd actually given me 1.5 pounds. Granted I have a piece to take to lunch tomorrow but if I didn't like leftovers this would be a waste of food - well to a degree - the dogs would have loved eating it and weren't to happy that it went into the refrigerator.
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