Cod Fish

To the best of my knowledge I have never eaten cod fish before. I know I've never cooked it.

Enter the grocery store with my husband. He picks up two packs of frozen cod fish. "Just to try".

Okay cod fish for dinner it is.

Now, I have cooked speckled trout, catfish (from the basin not farm raised - very different flavors and I much prefer wild), red, drum, salmon, tuna, tilapia, and orange roughy. The simplest recipe I have for fish is to sprinkle it with cayanne and dill, top with thinly sliced lemons (cover the whole top of the fish), squeeze lemon juice over them and bake till they flake. Tasty, easy, quick.

So that's what I did with the cod. It was disgusting. It was possibly the worst thing that has ever come out of my kitchen. And don't get me started on the smell.

Obviously I need cod cooking lessons.

So, since we will probably never buy or eat this kind of fish again and because I have another pack of this stuff in my freezer I decided to try to make it taste good.

I defrosted the last pack, soaked it in egg wash and garlic, stuck it in some Zats fish fry with tons of added spices and fried it in peanut oil.

Thank God we fry things outside. It was damn near inedible. Even ketchup couldn't save it. Hell, even tartar sauce couldn't save it.

At least I didn't poison us.