• Hilsa

    From Dale Shipp@1:261/1466 to Jim Weller on Monday, January 28, 2019 02:44:06
    On 01-26-19 23:56, Jim Weller <=-
    spoke to Dave Drum about radish pods <=-

    If you ever come across Hilsa, try it. It is Bangladesh's national
    fish and very tasty. It's in the shad and alewife tribe of the
    herring family. The flesh is quite oily and very flavourful, but
    subtle and sweet tasting compared to herring, with a soft texture
    and a great mouth feel. It is also very bony with numerous small
    fine bones so one must pay close attention while eating it.

    Oily can be a bit of a put-off for us, unless very very fresh. Soft
    texture is a big strike against it. But you totally lost it for us with
    the very bony and numberous small bones. SO, no thanks.


    MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05

    Title: Teriyaki Fish
    Categories: Main dish, Seafood, Appetizer, Microwave
    Yield: 3 servings

    3/4 c Soy sauce
    1/2 c Sugar
    1 ts Grated fresh ginger root
    1 Clove garlic,
    -peeled and crushed
    1/4 ts Monosodium glutamate (opt)
    3 ts Sake (Japanese rice wine) or
    Cooking sherry
    1 1/2 lb Fish fillets

    1. In a shallow, 2-quart, heat-resistant, non-metallic baking dish
    combine soy sauce, sugar, ginger root, garlic, monosodium glutamate
    and sake. Stir to combine well. 2. Place fish fillets in sauce
    mixture and marinate for 1/2 hour. 3. Heat, uncovered, in Microwave
    Oven for 9 minutes basting occasionally with sauce.

    Serves 3 to 4

    From _The New Deluxe Sharp Microwave Oven Cookbook_

    MMMMM


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  • From JIM WELLER@1:123/140 to DALE SHIPP on Thursday, January 31, 2019 23:59:00
    Quoting Dale Shipp to Jim Weller <=-

    Hilsa [is] very tasty.

    Oily can be a bit of a put-off for us, unless very very fresh.

    It's rich tasting but not strongly flavoured like Boston bluefish or
    mackerel.

    Soft texture is a big strike against it.

    Perhaps I should have said "delicate". It's tender, not mushy.

    But you totally lost it for us with the very bony and numberous
    small bones. SO, no thanks.

    Well there is no denying that it has a lot of small fine bones and
    must be eaten with care but to me the taste is worth the effort.

    Like I said to Dave, it's so tasty that it has been overfished to
    the point it's now endangered, do so you won't see any in your local
    markets these days.



    Cheers

    Jim


    ... She called for an appletini "easy on the tini."

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