Fish Dish and Appetizer Recipes

[MuskieBait]

My favourite fish dish / appetizer is super easy...sashimi!

Fresh fillet of tuna, mahimahi or yellowtail, slice into 1/2" thick slices, and serve with soy sauce and wasabi. That's it...no prep at all.

My second favourite is similar...poke!

Fresh fillet of tuna, mahimahi or yellowtail, chunk into small cubes, season with a bit of seasame oil, chili flakes, Hawaiian salt, chopped green onions, diced sweet onion (Maui onion even better!), ground roasted kukui nuts, and seaweed (ogo). Toss it together...done.

My third favourite takes a bit more preparation...ceviche!

Fresh white flesh fish fillet like mahimahi, yellowtail or rockfish, chunk into small cubes, take lime juice (or lime + lemon + tangerine or orange) and soak chunks of fish in water for 2 hours in the fridge), chop tomatoes, onions, cilantro, green onions, with other ingredients optional like mangoes, avocado, sweet peppers, hot pepper flakes...etc. Once the acid in the lime juice has "cooked" or denature the protein, the chunks of fish turns opaque. Drain off lime juice from the fish, add in your chopped ingredients, add a bit of sea salt and fresh ground peppers...and you're done.

My fourth favourite...steamed!

Simply score your fish, add in fresh ginger slivers, chopped green onions and steam in a pot for 5-10 minutes depending on the size of your fish (if the meat lifts off the bones without much effort, it is done), then take it out of the pot, add in soy sauce...and you're done.

Michael, we may not have a stove in our rented room...but who needs a stove? They are much better fresh and raw anyways.

Gosh...I'm drooling just thinking about it. If we catch enough, we can use one to make sashimi straight up, one to make poke, and one to make ceviche...we may need to catch enough to feed my sister and her boyfriend too! We may need even more to feed my family.