Cooking And Eating....“Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es”

  In the mid 1950's, my father made a cream gravy to which he added a glass jar of 'chipped beef',  then spread the resultant onto toaster-ovened Merita white bread......Over the decades, I am still a devotee of 'Creamed CHipped Beef On Toast'; although, my current version requires only a package of microwaved frozen Stouffer's Creamed Chip over pop-up toastered Kroger's 'Artisan Style Thick Cut White Bread'....and lots of ground black pepper.....

So many seem disgusted by the bottom-feeding talapia fish......what can I say, since so many Southerners like myself have eaten so many kettle-fried, cornmeal crusted river catfish! .....I purchased some frozen tilapia, "cane toads of our waterways"....with pinkish flesh.....dipped them in egg yolk, tempura crumbs, dry parmesan cheese, red and black ground peppers, and Mediterranean herbs....thyme, rosemary basil and cilantro....fried them in olive oil until crunchy-crusted and chowed down with a cabbage cole slaw made with the addition of some chili sauce added to the old-style slaw made with mayo, ground mustard seeds, dill, celery seed and grated, spicy jalapeños, So much tastier than stinky, oily Tennessee River bottom feeders! I figure.....since these ugly little fish are considered 'nuisance fish'.....why not eat as many as possible....reducing their breeding population.....Before tilapia's 'status' was lowered, years after the then totally ...

even better.......the next day......with a spicy-dressed cole slaw and a dribbling of Hoisan sauce & Worcestershire.....and a sprinkling of dried chervil......