A first for me!
I've taken the scales off a fish before, but I've never gutted one. I did a semi-decent job I think. At least, I don't think my husband would mind how it was done, so long as I didn't cut myself or stab myself with the knife (which I'm clumsily known to do from time to time). The only thing I couldn't truly figure out was how to cut the gills off, so I decided to just chop off the head. I probably took off more meat than necessary when chopping off the head, but oh well. It was my first time.
I was actually following instructions from this website: http://flyguys.net/blog/fishing-information/how-to-clean-a-fish. Quite helpful, especially with the pictures.
So what type of fish are we eating tonight? Milkfish, which I have no idea what it really is... it's a white fish, apparently, and I'm baking it using a Filipino recipe. Wrapped in tinfoil, with soy sauce, ginger, onion.... and I forgot what else - baked in the oven. I actually didn't have all the ingredients so I modified it and added whatever I had, or whatever substitutes I thought would work. I hope it tastes decent with all my modifications. If it doesn't, oh well. That's what leftover chicken and canned beans are for, hehe.
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Good on you!
Update: The fish tasted quite good - it was a good recipe. But the fish itself had a lot of tiny bones in it. We have one more Milkfish in the freezer, and I doubt we will purchase this type of fish again. Too much work to pick out all the bones!
That's the main reason I'm not one for eating fish - too much trouble dealing with the bones, compared to the "benefit" of eating the fish!
Ditto for crustaceans and their exoskeletons.
You can use scissors to cut off the gills, fins, tail etc.
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