Seafood Recipes - Seafood includes any sea water animal that is served as food or is suitable for eating. This usually includes: fish, shellfish, and roe.

Seafood includes any sea water animal that is served as food or is suitable for eating. This usually includes: fish, shellfish, and roe.

Fish occupies a most important place among the high-protein foods essential to properly balanced diet. It is also the most easily digestible and always tender. Because of this all fish (saltwater or freshwater) can be cooked, with slight variation, in the same way you cook very tender cuts of meat, such as baking, grilling, broiling, poaching, sautéing, frying etc. It is very important to remember one thing, fish is cooked to develop flavor, while meat is cooked to be tenderized and to develop flavor.

The main things to know when buying fish is to learn how to judge whether or not fish is fresh. Keep in mind that truly fresh fish have no odor whatever; odor develops with age. Fresh fish is never slimy! If you are able to press lightly fish with your fingers and no impression remains this is a sign of a fresh fish. A less fresh fish will retain impression because the flesh has gone limp with age. Fresh fish will have bright, full and clear eyes, red gills and overall color clear and shimmering.

IMPORTANT: Never keep fresh fish in your refrigerator longer than two days, because the flavor will be greatly decreased.

Packaged frozen fish which does require defrosting should be defrosted in the refrigerator. The best way is to remove it from freezer day before and use it next day.

Never let fish soak in the water. If you need to wash fish, use very cold salted water (about 1/3 cup of salt for 2 quarts of water).