Seafood Recipes

What are the Fish used in 101-FishRecipes?

I have tried to concentrate on fish that most housewives know little about. Buying fish can be confusing. One goes into a fishmonger, and finds a wide assortment of fish reclining on the marble slabs. Some of it may not be labeled, and if it is the names are sometimes unfamiliar.

 Often, in despair, one chooses the one fish whose name is recognizable and ignores those that are less expensive and often highly superior in flavor and taste. The idea of this  website is to tell you all about those fish.

For cooks today, whether they be a grand chef de cuisine or a housewife struggling to feed her family on a restricted budget, there is a whole new exciting field of food opening up and developing before their eyes the field of `alternative fish' little known or overlooked breeds which have so much to offer in their own right.

The Advantage of Eating Fish

   Great Budget Stretcher - Fish is a great budget stretcher. Even if you buy the more expensive kinds you will find there is little wastage, and even the discarded fish, bones and head can be put to good use to make delicious fish stocks which can be frozen to form the basis of a stock in which to cook other fish, or to use in soups and a vast number of exciting sauces. Unlike meat there is virtually no liquid loss or shrinkage during cooking. Cooking fish is also a help in cutting down your fuel costs;. it cooks in only a fraction of the time that it would take to process the equivalent amount of meat or poultry and many of the dishes in this book take an almost remarkably short time to prepare and cook. Much of the fish you buy in the fishmonger's is already prepared and needs no preparation at all before cooking.

   Diet Point - From the diet point of view fish can certainly help to keep us all (especially children) healthy and vigorous. For those who are slimming there is an extremely wide choice of fish dishes to choose from which will keep you fit and yet help you to remove those unwanted pounds. All forms of fish are rich in protein, minerals and vitamins. The flesh of oily fish is particularly rich in vitamin D, 'which is vital for growing children in order to strengthen their bones and teeth and to promote regular growth. Fish cooked whole, like sprats and whitebait, provides the essential calcium that all children and mothers badly need.

   Culinary Point -   From the culinary point of view fish is a dream (I should know, I have been cooking little else for the last six months). With the more highly flavored ones you can prepare any number of exciting dishes; with the less highly flavored. you can make use of their delicious texture to provide exquisite dishes by the addition of inventive and exciting sauces.

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