Showing posts with label Recipes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recipes. Show all posts

October 09, 2012

I cleaned and gutted a fish today

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.