I do like arctic char but it also only makes an appearance on the market shelves once a year. Have you tried this fish. If you have...what thoughts do you have.

My thoughts? In many ways arctic char is everything I love about salmon, less everything I dislike about salmon. I'm a fan.

Don't know why, but I don't eat a lot of fish any more aside from tuna. Do not like salmon. As a kid we used to catch perch, blue gills, sunfish, and crappies at the lake at the end of the street - all good pan fish. Tasty and mild. We never breaded them, just fried them up in a heavy pan with butter. I'm thinking now they'd have been exceptional with a little breading.

Now my taste runs to shell fish.

After fresh, wild caught Salmon, one of my favorite fish is black cod aka sablefish. Not only do we get it fresh a good part of the year, but someone locally has been smoking it - about the best thing I can imagine. After those two, or maybe tied with the black cod, are fresh halibut cheeks. Not fish, but another favorite is geoduck steak.

We love salmon! Try and have a feed at least twice a month, depending on what is available in the store. I have to head to the city to purchase it fresh, our local store in town only has previously frozen.

Lobster is something we fly in in the spring, Our hamlet has a lobster feast fundraiser in May. And my SIL flies in a order in July for our family feast.

We enjoy fresh trout when we go to the mountains to fish, and occasionally pike. Depending on the time of year when we catch it, I will fry it. If it looks muddy or wormy, it's catch and release. It's been minus 30 here for a few days now, so hopefully we will be able to get out and do some ice fishing, and pike could be on the menu soon.

As for other types of fish, being on the prairies limits what is brought in, and most all of it is brought in frozen. About the only frozen fish I will cook up is cod.

Darlene

Spiced Salmon with Mustard Sauce!

Ingredients:
2 teaspoons whole-grain mustard
1 teaspoon honey
1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric
1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 (6-ounce) salmon fillets
Cooking spray

Preparation:
Combine first 6 ingredients in a small bowl, stirring well with a fork. Rub mustard mixture evenly over each fillet. Place fillets, skin side down, on a jelly-roll pan coated with cooking spray. Broil 8 minutes or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork or until desired degree of doneness.

Welcome Asmamohd, that salmon sounds delicious, uncomplicated and interesting. Thanks for posting a well written recipe.

I eat all kinds of fish, including cat fish, skate, eel, squid, conch, --- sushi ---------- I can't thing of one I don't enjoy.

The best is going to an Asian store and pick out a live swimming fish. There is nothing better.

dcarch

We get a wonderful small sole here on the California Central Coast called a Sand Dab. I think that's what I'll order tonight when we go to Moss Landing for dinner!

Living near the east coast, our fish markets always seem to have an abundance of good flounder/fluke fillets and we eat a lot of them.

For flavor, I prefer members of the sea bass family. We get striped bass from NJ and NY and rockfish (same fish-regional name) from the Chesapeake Bay Area of MD. European sea bass known as bronzino or levraki have become more readily available in the last few years and are delicious grilled or baked whole.

I seem to make salmon more in the summer, when I poach a couple of pieces in the morning and serve it chilled with a sauce for dinner so I don't have to do much cooking on a hot day. Otherwise, I'm tired of eating salmon after so many years of it.

I'm the opposite, I prefer salmon to char. Occasionally fresh local halibut or sturgeon, but in general it's my DH who loves white fish, not me. We both enjoy sablefish aka black cod, but it's hard to find the thicker filets we prefer at the local markets here in coastal Northern CA. Most of those go to restaurants; consumers get the thinner filets which I don't like as much.

DH loves all shellfish; I'm more neutral. Loved it when I was a kid, not so much any longer. I OD'ed as a teen on toro and have never enjoyed sashimi since. I'll eat it, but it doesn't 'float my boat' any more. But then, sushi is picnic food to me, akin to deli potato salad and cheap hot dogs. Not special and not something I enjoy paying for.

The two shellfish we don't seek out are clams and mussels. We eat them, they're just not our favs. Lobsters always available here with many Asian markets, but quality-wise the best fishmarket for crab and lobster is a considerable drive from us, across the San Mateo-Hayward bridge at the New England Lobster Co. Superb quality, much better than Whole Foods or the Asian markets, at competitive prices to WF.

I remember perch from fishing in the Midwest, very tasty. I used to love trout, and would still rather have even a farm-raised trout than the imported branzino which too many restaurants trumpet out here.

I don't usually shop the Asian markets; none of them are geared towards sustainable fish. There's only one that does, and it is (of course!) in Berkeley, CA, run by a JapAm family. Not really convenient for us so I seldom stop in.

No one has mentioned Shad - my favorite fish. Because of the bones we always laid it on foil topped with lemon slices, well wrapped and baked at a very low temp - 200 or so - for at least twelve hours or until all bones had disappeared and only a luscious shad steak remained. These days shad is almost impossible to find, and the fish person in our ritziest market here in Northern Virginia told me only the roe is used - the fish thrown away. Such a waste!

I am very picky about my fish. I don't like lake fish - white fish or walleye or perch. Although Moe does.

The only fish that I can say that I really, really love is Halibut. I can eat salmon, and we have a really nice sole here - Petrale sole that Moe loves. And I'm okay with that. But Halibut? I could eat that two or three times a week and be happy.

~Ann

We like a bunch of different fish around here. Don't get to eat salmon too often because it's usually too far out of the budget. But we eat a lot of various whitefish in a few different ways, and I make a mean tunaloaf that even my tuna hating mom loves.

Some interesting fish to try. I went through all the posts and made a list. My guess is that I will not find some of these at the local stores so I really need to find a good internet source that carries a range of products.

One thing I noticed was that shark did not make it onto anybody's preference list. Any comments on shark if you have tried it. I almost always see it at the local stores. I believe I tried it years ago but cannot remember what my thoughts were.

Fresh caught young black tip shark is delectable, but I won't eat it these days because sharks are under so much pressure now.