Before touching the package, make sure to sniff catfish. Fresh catfish will be mildly scented with clean smell like a cool pond or ocean. A little earthy isn’t bad, but it shouldn’t smell like ammonia or being pungent in any …
Before you even see it, the aroma hits your nostrils: You’re walking by the fish fryer at the county fair. A strong smell of sizzling grease and seasoned flour make your mouth water and awakens some sort of hunger. Fried …
Catfish is comfort food, even if you think of slimy monsters in dark water when you hear name. Though its very name has an evil ring, this flatfish are everywhere across America. Southerners in particular love them: They fry, they …
Catfish gets a bad rap. Some say it’s just one of those food items that’s loaded with fat. Others suspect it because off where it lives. It is a bottom-dwelling creature that live in dark, murky ponds and muddy rivers. …
New Orleans kitchen cooking demands patience, and if there’s one dish that proves it, it’s catfish étouffée. You can’t rush the roux, nor can you fake depth of slow-cooked flavors. To know this dish is to know how state cooks. …
For some reason, catfish gets a bad rap as one of those hard-to-cook-right fish. People seem to believe that it’s just another white fish and thus they end up with rubbery flavorless results. While there is nothing wrong with the …
For most home cooks, though, catfish is a blank canvas, one they heavily paint with blackening spice. The fillet gets a dunk in buttermilk, then another one in the blackening, before it are fried until it is almost as hard …
When most people thinks of Cajun food, they envision an unending line of red sauce: crawfish étouffée, a bowl of gumbo loaded with okra, some fried catfish topped with thick roux. While this isn’t far from the truth, it’s also …
The staple of Southern Coastal Cooking are the catfish taco. It is fresh out of the river or the bayou. You know what it’s supposed to be about. And then you go make a taco that makes you wish you …
A catfish is a type of fish. When it comes to nutrition, most parent would prefer to feed their kids something that contains omega-3s and some type of protein. And they’d like to do so without having to chase them …
