Fabulous Fish: 150 Healthful Recipes for Cooking Seafood

Low in fat and cholesterol and easy to prepare, fish is the food of choice for today's health-conscious, time crazed cook. Fabulous Fish offers 150 creative and unique recipes which are easy-to-follow and hard to resist. Among the delicious recipes featured are such delights Brazilian Shrimp with Red Peppers, Indonesian Tuna Stew, and Catfish-Potato Salad.

Some first-rate fish dinners are supplied here by Rapp ( Mother Earth's Vegetable Cookbook ). However, a few recipes (like deep-fried catfish with hush puppies or a rich chowder made with crabmeat, corn and cream) are not as healthful as the title intimates, and the author's fondness for costlier seafoods, such as scallops, shrimp and salmon, will force cooks on a budget to reserve these dishes for special occasions. Although entrees predominate, there are also savory suggestions for introductory courses, like a seafood sausage appetizer prepared with monkfish, shrimp and seasonings; a soup made of leeks and monkfish; and a Tahitian-style salad of tuna in coconut milk and lime. For the main courses, Rapp effectively uses a number of cooking styles to vary the offerings. He bakes bluefish fillets with farmer cheese, yogurt and mint; poaches shrimp in beer and tops it with melted dill butter; and garnishes fried mahimahi fillets with a rich sauce of sun-dried tomatoes and basil. Illustrations not seen by PW.
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Yes, another fish cookbook, but this one offers an appetizing array of dishes from the popular author of Mother Earth's Vegetable Cookbook (Avon, 1981) and Mother Earth's Vegetarian Feasts ( LJ 2/15/84). After years as a strict vegetarian, Rapp added fish to his diet and became a fanatic fish cook; these recipes for all courses of a meal--Tuna in Coconut Milk and Lime, Pesto Halibut with Tomato Sauce--are the result. For most collections.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.