I'm a fish person. I like fish, any variety, anytime. Tuna sandwiches, fishsticks, baked cod, grilled snapper, grilled salmon...oh my god, salmon.
Today, though, I sing the praises of my new favorite fish--tilapia. I bought some on sale a couple days ago, and we broiled it last night. It would have been better the first day, but one of our (five!) cats got a little excited about the grocery bag o' meat, and stuck a paw through the plastic on the ground beef before we could get to it. So we had to bump the tacos up the schedule. The fish was still pretty damn good the second day, though. It's firm, not terribly fishy-tasting, doesn't flake apart when you try to take it off the pan. It also isn't filleted and sold with the skin on (the thing that grosses me out about cooking salmon at home).
I had around 5 ounces, and WW tells me that's 3 points. Three. I love tilapia. The only things I don't love about it are the price (about $8/lb.), the hit-and-miss availability at my local store, and the name. Tilapia is one of those words that gets stuck on my tongue, and no matter how many times I ask the guy, I can never remember how to pronounce it. I go into a panic at the seafood counter, trying to decide whether I should ask for a pound of till-a-PEE-a or ti-LA-pia. Then I figure that they're both wrong, and before I know it the butcher guy is rolling his eyes and fetching someone else some shrimp. Most of the time, I just point.
But other than that, it's nature's perfect food.
Posted by Joy at May 20, 2004 11:01 AMSalmon and fresh grilled yellow fin tuna are my favorites, although tilapia isn't bad.
Posted by: Jordana on May 20, 2004 06:01 PM