Tilapia has too mealy a texture and I never offer it to clients. I
find it too fragile.

On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:52:43 -0700 (PDT), Barbara Kroushl
> wrote:

>Tilapia has too mealy a texture and I never offer it to clients. I
>find it too fragile.


You may not be getting it fresh enough. It is a firm enough fish,
when fresh, but I don't care for the taste, myself.

Evelyn

Evelyn wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:52:43 -0700 (PDT), Barbara Kroushl
> > wrote:
>
>> Tilapia has too mealy a texture and I never offer it to clients. I
>> find it too fragile.
>
>
> You may not be getting it fresh enough. It is a firm enough fish,
> when fresh, but I don't care for the taste, myself.
>
> Evelyn

My mother gets large tilapia filets at Costco and cooks them very simply
with buttered crumbs on top. (She makes the crumbs from good Italian bread.)
The texture is actually good and the flavor is nice--mostly due to the
high-quality buttered crumbs. Nowadays I only eat tilapia when she cooks it.
It does seem that the larger filets are significantly better in texture than
the small ones. Or maybe Costco just has better sources than most places...