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Skriven 2011-03-10 07:53:06 av Dave Drum (1:18/200.0)
     Kommentar till en text av John Guillory
Ärende: Fishy Fast Food
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John Guillory Said to Dave Drum about Re: Fishy Fast Food

JG> DD> Well, sorta fish. And most of those places offer the fishy fare
JG> DD> as  regular menu items during the year - they are just featuring
JG> DD> it more  during Lent as the bean counters who worship money
JG> DD> sniff a potential  profit from those who worship other gods.

JG>     Carefull Dave, there's Biggot's in this echo (sadly their on the
JG> FTSC Comittee) who don't believe others are entitled to believe
JG> anything but their own opinion.  Acusing someone of worshiping money
JG> is grounds for him to try to cut your feed and throw a hissey fit!

Commonly known as part of the schoolyard bullies - or, conversely, the 
sewer sharks (according to Ross Sauer). They typically equate smarts, 
couth, taste, and good sense with who has the biggest pile of chink.

So, they worship money, more than most. They just don't like being 
reminded of the fact.

JG> Personally, I normally eat fish year round as well as chicken, not
JG> for religous reasons, but for health reasons.  For the most part,
JG> Fish is better for you than Greasy hamburgers.   Depending on how
JG> it's made, they usually will taste a lot better too.  Though that
JG> again depends on the resteraunt.  Some places think a fish-burger is
JG> a fish patty on bread with just a tad of tarter sauce.  Not bad if
JG> you like eating dry bread with a side of fish-sticks...  Others give
JG> the same consideration to their fish and chicken burgers as they do 
JG> their beef burgers.  I guess they don't make enough profit off the 
JG> fish burgers, so they have to skimp on making it desireable.  

There is a difference between a fish patty/stick and a, say, Filet-O-
Fish portion. The fish stick/patty is "chopped and formed" into exact 
weight/dimension/configuration and then breaded/battered.

McDonald's (and Long John's) cut their filets from the whole fish in 
appropriate sized pieces. The McD's is breaded and frozen for cooking at
the individual store. Long John's is frozen and delivered to the store 
where it will be battered or breaded and deep fried or baked.

Mrs. Paul's, Gortons, etc. are as you describe - chopped and formed, 
like Spam, luncheon meats, or Arby's roast beast, or turkey loaf.

One of my pet peeves is that walleye is wildly popular around here. But,
one *damned* seldom gets real walleye ... The walleye is considered by 
many to be the pinnacle of freshwater fish with respect to culinary 
taste and texture. In North America, walleye are fervently fished both 
recreationally and commercially for food. Because of its nocturnal 
feeding habits walleye can be caught at night throughout the summer and 
autumn months. Most commercial fisheries for walleye are situated in the
Canadian waters of the Great Lakes, but there are other locations as 
well.

But, if all the fish served as walleye on a single AYCE Friday were 
truly walleye - there would be no fish left in the water to reproduce 
more walleye. Rather much of what is sold as "walleye" is whiting or 
pollock or other similarly flabby white-fleshed fish.

Here is one of my favourite fishy dishes ...

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Dave's Fish Parmesan
 Categories: Seafood, Cheese, Sauces, Mushrooms
      Yield: 8 Servings
 
      2 lb Fish filets or steaks
     26 oz Jar Onofrio's Basilico sauce
           - or Marinara sauce *
           Salt & fresh black pepper
      1 lb Mozzarella or Provolone;
           - sliced or shredded
      1 lb Crimini/Swiss Brown button
           - mushrooms, cleaned, sliced
           - reserving 8 buttons
           Fresh grated or shaved
           - Parmesan cheese
      8 tb Butter; melted
 
  Preheat oven to 425oF/220oC.
  
  Spread a thin layer of sauce over bottom of baking dish
  place a layer of firm whitefish filets on the sauce. Salt
  and pepper the fish. Sprinkle some sliced mushrooms over
  fish and place cheese in a layer over the mushrooms.
  Spread a layer of sauce over the cheese and repeat the
  fish, mushroom, cheese layers until the baking dish is
  near full or you run out of fish.
  
  Top the last layer with cheese, the remaining sauce in
  the jar and the 8 reserved mushroom buttons. Grate or
  shave Parmesan over until you are ashamed of yourself or
  until you run out of cheese.
  
  Drizzle the melted butter over the cheese and bake until
  fish is done - 15 to 20 minutes
  
  * Available from www.onofrios.com. Or you may use Ragu,
  Prego, Classico, etc.
  
  I like the addition of the basil in the Basilico sauce. If
  you don't care for basil with your fish use the straight
  marinara. - UDD
  
  Adapted from a NYT Cookbook recipe and served many times
  from Dirty Dave's Kitchen.
  
  MM Format by Dave Drum - 10 June 1997
 
MMMMM

ENJOY!!!

From Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen
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