Tilapia and other questions

[coppercoin40]

tilapia is a very delicate flavored fish, also soft sometimes mushy meat, avoid smothering with heavy flavors or batter or you will overpower the flavor of the fish, poaching with a little lemon and light seasoning, don't overcook or they fall apart

[pahoated]

Alan Wong imports tilapia from the BI for his restaurants and it is one of Michelle Obama's favorite dishes when visiting. This place is supposed to have a tilapia dish, never tried it. It is around the corner from the Pineapple Express.

Naung Mai Thai Kitchen
86 Kilauea Ave, Hilo, Island of Hawaii, HI 96720-2906
808-934-7540

On a side note, there are some guys raising and selling sturgeon, along with the caviar, and several of the new Homestead houses are set up with solar powered aquaponic farms. Everything seems to be up around Waimea for some reason.

"It was a majority decision to descend into the Dark Ages. Don't worry, be happy, bang on da drum all day!"

[Carey]

Sturgeon: the NEHLA fish market has had PACRC sturgeon from the UH-H program

Waimea does have the Homestead Farm Lots (small farm lots that used to have to produce ag products, according to the original docs) that have put on the Waimea Homestead Farmers Market for over 20 years now, so maybe that is why things seem to be up in Waimea!

[taropatch]

Must have been about 8 years ago, I saw frozen tilapia filets at Cost-U-Less in Hilo.

[dayna]

I really really don't like frozen fish. I would rather just not eat fish than eat frozen fish. I'll look into the people at the Makuu market.

Dayna

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[pahoated]

The Foodland in Kea'u has fresh, whole, gutted tilapia in their fish section, about $4 for the whole fish.

"It was a majority decision to descend into the Dark Ages. Don't worry, be happy, bang on da drum all day!"

[dayna]

Ohhh! thank you! I'll be sure to stop by this week and purchase a fish. I'm excited to try it.

Dayna

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[dayna]

Well I stopped by foodland in Keaau and they had thawed (from frozen from China) tilapia.

I went ahead and bought one. Probably the last time I'll do that but I want to try it.

So wish me luck, I'm going to cook it up for dinner for myself tonight!

Dayna

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[Carey]

Dayna, Hope your tilapia is yummy-nummy.

We visited the Ponds Restaurant on SUnday & they had UH-H PACRC grown fresh sturgeon (3 preparation, Dh & I tried 2...o-la-l!

Have found out that UH-H Has done a lot of research on tilapia...Dr. Hopkins headed up the research (& LOVES to share) The Aquaculture club there did grow some & sell the fish at HIlo Farmers Market (fresh iced) a couple of years ago... Kevin has some contacts of aquaculture & aquaponic farms around (DH knows of one aquaponic farm on the list in N Kona that sells produce & fish...but I have not been there....some of his co-workers have smoked the fish... not sure that is what I would do with a great light fresh fish... but...)

He did tell me that the N. Kona one does offer tours, classes & setups & I am pretty sure you can contact Dr. Kevin Hopkins for a PACRC tour (esp. since you have a HS student that potentially could have interest...hint hint...)

There are also

[dayna]

I poached the Tialpia in a little bit of chicken stock, lemon juice and peppercorns. I then removed the whole fish to the oven to sit while I made a sauce.

I strained out the chunks of skin that fell off and the peppercorns. I added some more lemon juice, butter and capers. I reduced the liquid by half. I added some flour water to thicken it a little and poured it over the fish.

YUM. It was really good. I did not like all those little bones however!

And thanks Carey, I'll be looking into your suggestions!

Dayna

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