It's hard to beat a simple baked butter crumbed fish

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

They had beautiful fresh wild caught Canadian flounder filets at the market today. I baked them with lemon, butter, sherry and crumbs and they were just fantastic. Sometimes the simplest things are just the best.

I served it with baked potatoes and sauteed carrot,cabbage,onion slaw with thyme.

[Warpy]

1. The less you do to exquisitely fresh fish, the better it is.

and that applies to everything I know but bluefish.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

2. I used to just love broiled bluefish

but it was the first fish to catch a bad reputation early on for mercury contamination and I haven't eaten it in years and years. But, I thought it was pretty goood just broiled with butter, which was a simple preparation.

I know that a lot of people didn't care for bluefish ever, saying it was "oily" and strong tasting yet I really never found that to be true for myself.

[elleng]

3. We used to catch Blues in the Chesapeake Bay,

and return home with TONS! My husband had a dream that he'd SMOKED one, so he did, with our Baby Weber, on our apartment porch! It was quite good, and we did more! (Fortunately, neighbors never complained.)

[TreasonousBastard]

6. A lot of people hate bluefish, but I think...

most of them just hate fish and tolerate flounders, while refusing to believe tuna and salmon are actually fish. It's the same people who forced poultry producers to make birds with no dark meat-- they don't even hate fish, they hate tasting anything.

When I had a boat I used to go out and catch choppers until my arms were falling off-- 10-15 pound school blues were common around here. Still are, too.

Freeze and/or smoke some fillets and make fishhead stew with the remains of the filleted fish-- grossed out some people when they saw the eyeballs floating around, but the ones who didn't run away found out what a treat those fish cheeks are.

Treasonous the Piscatorial Gourmand

[mtnester]

4. We had simple scrambled eggs, in real butter, and half a croissant

toasted with real butter, last night for dinner.

Simple, perfect, delicious....and quick too I might add.

[Tab]

5. Nah, you could do it with a hammer

or a mallet, or one of those beef tenderizer thingies.