Now need to do some more plumbing work and so forth. The restoration crew is supposed to show up tommorrow. The joys of living in Michigan....
Been busy the last couple of days. We were woken up at 4:30 am yesterday, our renter said she heard water running in our shop. Went there and about 1/4 of the shop was raining water out of the light cans. A pipe froze and broke in the drywall ceiling. Spent the rest of the day cleaning up and dealing with the insurance folks, with time out for Joan's treatment. The insurance company had me call a company that does restorations - never dealt with this before, I am waiting to hear from the adjuster. The whole thing is a pia. That -15F really bit me in the butt. And the wallet, my deductible is 1K.
Brin, I like the Swai better than Tillapia. It is sweeter and flakier. I had never heard of it until the Harveys grocery store where I shop at started to carry it. It was cheaper than the Tillapia so I tried it. Since then I have been buying it whenever it's on sale.
interesting, I tried some for the first time last week. I usually just walk on by the fish counter at the Acme, but when this Tilapia looking whitefish was advertised by 5.99 a pound, I tried it. Sort of like a pumped up Tilapia, but what I bought unfortunately didn't seem that fresh. So I dumped a bunch of mild salsa on it and it was fine. Now I wonder what the heavy metal content is...it's not the water they swim in I worry about, though it's a catfish so I assume it will eat anything on the bottom , but it's the cheap Chinese fish food of unknown purity they are likely feeding the fish in pens. Before I get intimate with a fish I'd like to know where's she been...
Correctly fried small okra cut into 1/4" or so pieces, zero slime, I can't eat the slimy junk either. In soup it's like slippery yuck!yeah, i should have fried it, given it more flavor, pan cooking in a little butter, even with herbs, was a little boring.
Randy, you are really pushing it though when you try to peddle that okra. That slimey gook does nothing for me, and I've tried okra soup and
okra fritters. It was still slimey...sorry. If an eel became a vegetable, it would become an okra plant.
I think we've covered that adequately...
and you living on the Eastern shore sure know about Chesapeake eels.
Cooking class is dismissed!
