When I was in Sicily last week, my aunt gave me a few tins of mackerel
filets in olive oil. She said they are delicious but didn't really tell me
what to do with them. Two questions: do they taste very fishy? what are some
possibilities for using them in dishes or serving them?

thanks in advance,
Mia

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:47:08 +0200, "Mia" wrote:

When I was in Sicily last week, my aunt gave me a few tins of mackerel
filets in olive oil. She said they are delicious but didn't really tell me
what to do with them. Two questions: do they taste very fishy? what are some
possibilities for using them in dishes or serving them?

If they are tinned in OO they are probably ready to eat like sardines.
Just put one on a piece of bread and try it.

Mackerel has a pronounced flavor. Whether you call it "fishy" you can
decide yourself when you try it. When you know what it tastes like you
can also decide for yourself what to do with it. Do you think your
Sicilian aunt would ask someone else?



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"Mia" wrote in message ...
When I was in Sicily last week, my aunt gave me a few tins of mackerel
filets in olive oil. She said they are delicious but didn't really tell me
what to do with them. Two questions: do they taste very fishy? what are some
possibilities for using them in dishes or serving them?

Mackeral is scrumptious. I *wish* I could find the mackeral that I get
in Norway here in the US.

The mackeral is just plain good on a simple cracker. With a beer on
the side. The mackeral I like is in a tomato sauce. Makrel i tomat
saus or something like that.

They are not fishy at all. Just dive in.

Karen

Karen O'Mara wrote:
"Mia" wrote in message
...
When I was in Sicily last week, my aunt gave me a few tins of
mackerel
filets in olive oil. She said they are delicious but didn't really
tell me
what to do with them. Two questions: do they taste very fishy? what
are some possibilities for using them in dishes or serving them?

Mackeral is scrumptious. I *wish* I could find the mackeral that I get
in Norway here in the US.

The mackeral is just plain good on a simple cracker. With a beer on
the side. The mackeral I like is in a tomato sauce. Makrel i tomat
saus or something like that.

They are not fishy at all. Just dive in.

Karen

I read an article recently (Time magazine, perhaps) which listed mackerel as
one of the fish to avoid due to mercury contamination. Also on that list
was swordfish, tilefish and (IIRC) shark.

Jill

jmcquown wrote:

I read an article recently (Time magazine, perhaps) which listed mackerel as
one of the fish to avoid due to mercury contamination. Also on that list
was swordfish, tilefish and (IIRC) shark.


I read an article recently that said the type of Mercury found in fish
wasn't as detrimental to your health as previously believed...

http://www.jsonline.com/alive/news/aug03/165622.asp

~john!



--
What was it like to see - the face of your own stability - suddenly look
away...

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On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:21:07 -0500, "jmcquown"
wrote:

Karen O'Mara wrote:
"Mia" wrote in message
...
When I was in Sicily last week, my aunt gave me a few tins of
mackerel
filets in olive oil. She said they are delicious but didn't really
tell me
what to do with them. Two questions: do they taste very fishy? what
are some possibilities for using them in dishes or serving them?

Mackeral is scrumptious. I *wish* I could find the mackeral that I
get
in Norway here in the US.

The mackeral is just plain good on a simple cracker. With a beer on
the side. The mackeral I like is in a tomato sauce. Makrel i tomat
saus or something like that.

They are not fishy at all. Just dive in.

Karen

I read an article recently (Time magazine, perhaps) which listed
mackerel as one of the fish to avoid due to mercury contamination.
Also on that list was swordfish, tilefish and (IIRC) shark.

Jill

You need to be on a pretty constant diet of those fish. More than
once a day.

Sheena

That's probably true. I try not to be an alarmist. I never stopped eating
eggs when everyone was crying about how high in cholesterol they are. I
didn't stop eating bacon due to the nitrite scare.

I eat fish not every day, but at least once a week. I adore fish. However,
I pretty much stick to locally farmed catfish; then there is salmon, cod,
tilapia. High in Omega3 fatty acids (or so the current studies show). When
I'm 70 and they say all that fish was bad for me... I'm not sure I'll care


Jill

wrote:
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 04:03:44 -0500, "jmcquown"
wrote:

wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:21:07 -0500, "jmcquown"
wrote:

Karen O'Mara wrote:
"Mia" wrote in message
...
When I was in Sicily last week, my aunt gave me a few tins of
mackerel
filets in olive oil. She said they are delicious but didn't
really tell me
what to do with them. Two questions: do they taste very fishy?
what are some possibilities for using them in dishes or serving
them?

Mackeral is scrumptious. I *wish* I could find the mackeral that I
get
in Norway here in the US.

The mackeral is just plain good on a simple cracker. With a beer
on
the side. The mackeral I like is in a tomato sauce. Makrel i tomat
saus or something like that.

They are not fishy at all. Just dive in.

Karen

I read an article recently (Time magazine, perhaps) which listed
mackerel as one of the fish to avoid due to mercury contamination.
Also on that list was swordfish, tilefish and (IIRC) shark.

Jill

You need to be on a pretty constant diet of those fish. More than
once a day.

Sheena

That's probably true. I try not to be an alarmist. I never stopped
eating eggs when everyone was crying about how high in cholesterol
they are. I didn't stop eating bacon due to the nitrite scare.

I eat fish not every day, but at least once a week. I adore fish.
However, I pretty much stick to locally farmed catfish; then there
is salmon, cod, tilapia. High in Omega3 fatty acids (or so the
current studies show). When I'm 70 and they say all that fish was
bad for me... I'm not sure I'll care

Jill

I believe the key is a wide diet, then if anything really is bad for
you, you will not have had too much of it. For the rest, I enjoy
and don't worry and now do not even read all the 'sky is falling'
horror stories!

You forgot the butter witch hunt ! So many friends switched to
margarine and now I see they say a lot of margarines are far worse
than a little butter. If one gets right down to it, probably the
worst thing we ingest is the air we breathe lol

Sheena

I never forget the witch hunt

Jill