You know how when you suddenly start hearing/seeing/noticing something over and over? Something you maybe never noticed or heard of or cared about before? I think that is a sign and that the universe is trying to tell you something. Serendipity. Apparently, the universe would like me to try Tilapia because in the last 24 hours I have seen all of this:
The Iron Chef America last night was the Tilapia battle
It was mentioned this morning over at Want Not
And I saw this while surfing last night- totally by accident! (of course, there are no accidents...)
Tilapia Recipe
Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: 10 minutes
6-8 pieces skinless tilapia fillets
1⁄4 cup butter (1⁄2 stick) softened
1⁄2 small yellow onion, chopped fine
zest and juice of one lime
1 Serrano chile, minced
1⁄2 cup breadcrumbs
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1⁄2 teaspoon coarse salt
freshly ground pepper to taste
To make the lime-butter, mix together the butter, onion, zest, lime juice, chile and salt in a bowl. Place in refrigerator until needed. Place the breadcrumbs on a plate and sprinkle the fish with salt and pepper.
Roll the fish in the crumbs. In a nonstick skillet, heat the oil over medium heat until just smoking, then sear the fish carefully turning over once with a spatula about 2 minutes per side. If you have to work in batches, add 1 tablespoon oil before the second batch. Serve the fish with a dollop of the lime butter.
In my experience, (ok, this is also what The Leader [aka Oprah] says) if you don't listen the first time, the universe just gets louder and more insistent and I don't want a pound of Tilapia falling on my head or anything, so if I see it at the grocery store this week I am going to give it a try. eek!
June 26, 2006
All signs point to Tilapia
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So...I had not heard of tilapia before being a vegetarian. Not 20 minutes after reading this I saw a patient (cat) who eats tilapia as part of his daily diet. It's a little freaky! Is this some cosmic suggestion that I need more fish in my diet? ick.
I think the reason you're seeing it everywhere is that, over the last few years, it's sort of become the new cod...plentiful and cheap. And, unfortunately, almost as bland. Which, I suppose, is advantageous in that you can do just about anything with it. And disadvantageous in that you have to do just about anything with it to get any flavor.
Of course, I'm certain that, just as with cod, it will soon be overfished to the point of near-extinction.
do you always have to bring us down Big D? Damn fish eaters!
Sorry. Let me rephrase.
TILAPIA!!! Mmmmm, mmmmmm good! Delicious tilapia, nature's wonder food! A bountiful, inexhaustible source of nutrition and yummy yummy tastiness. :)
Eat tilapia today!
;)
Cod is overfished? I had no idea. I could never eat cod. I don't like how it sounds, tilapia at least sounds exotic. ;)
And a bland fish is not a necessarily a bad thing in my book. I don't like fish flavor at all.
Just soak it in a lot of butter and anything will taste delicious!
Looks to me like you stumbled upon a Bilderberger plot to take over the dinner table! ;)
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