With all of the health benefits that come with seafood, it would be a shame to waste it There are a lot of great vitamins in seafood as well as omega-3s. However, seafood is probably one of the scariest things for beginning cooks to deal with. Not only does it have some of the strongest tastes of any of the foods you will deal with, but it can go bad really quick. Given that it's one of the most expensive items you will purchase for cooking as well, that can make it one of the riskiest items you will cook with. There are a number of ways to help you protect that investment.
[For our purposes here, "seafood" includes any food that comes from a water source, be it freshwater or seawater. This includes, but is not limited to any crustacean such as lobster, shrimp, or crayfish, any fish, any shellfish, and any other aquatic animal you would prepare for a meal. While it could be called "lakefood" or "riverfood", that just just doesn't sound right.]
The big thing is to use it when you purchase it. Seafood tends to go bad quickly, and so it shouldn't be in your kitchen any longer than absolutely necessary. This means that it should be used either that day or the next in order to ensure that it doesn't spoil. This also means that you need to have a specific plan in mind when you purchase it, and that you should only buy what you need. Even if you buy it frozen, you should be using it relatively quickly in order to make the best use of it.
If it is in the kitchen longer than a day or two, you need to do something with it. A chowder is the obvious best choice, but if you can do anything else with it do so. This may be the best time to have over a group of friends in order to deal with the left-overs. There are some other great ways to deal with a lot of food, such as lobster rolls or crabcakes, but you want to avoid freezing it if at all possible as frozen seafood tends to lose a lot of the flavor quickly. It helps to have alternate plans if something happens so that your plans go through, but as long as you cook it soon after bringing it home you should be fine.
Even a bag of frozen tilapia fillets can run about $10-$12, making it more expensive than even a bag of chicken breasts, and usually giving you fewer meals. This means that you need to take care of that food, and that the best way to do that is to cook it as soon as possible. Just make sure that you have for its immediate use and you should be fine; this is one time when you need to limit the improv and have a plan in place when you even think about buying. Do that, and you won't need to throw away some great food for which you just spent a pretty penny, and that would be a true shame.
[For our purposes here, "seafood" includes any food that comes from a water source, be it freshwater or seawater. This includes, but is not limited to any crustacean such as lobster, shrimp, or crayfish, any fish, any shellfish, and any other aquatic animal you would prepare for a meal. While it could be called "lakefood" or "riverfood", that just just doesn't sound right.]
The big thing is to use it when you purchase it. Seafood tends to go bad quickly, and so it shouldn't be in your kitchen any longer than absolutely necessary. This means that it should be used either that day or the next in order to ensure that it doesn't spoil. This also means that you need to have a specific plan in mind when you purchase it, and that you should only buy what you need. Even if you buy it frozen, you should be using it relatively quickly in order to make the best use of it.
If it is in the kitchen longer than a day or two, you need to do something with it. A chowder is the obvious best choice, but if you can do anything else with it do so. This may be the best time to have over a group of friends in order to deal with the left-overs. There are some other great ways to deal with a lot of food, such as lobster rolls or crabcakes, but you want to avoid freezing it if at all possible as frozen seafood tends to lose a lot of the flavor quickly. It helps to have alternate plans if something happens so that your plans go through, but as long as you cook it soon after bringing it home you should be fine.
Even a bag of frozen tilapia fillets can run about $10-$12, making it more expensive than even a bag of chicken breasts, and usually giving you fewer meals. This means that you need to take care of that food, and that the best way to do that is to cook it as soon as possible. Just make sure that you have for its immediate use and you should be fine; this is one time when you need to limit the improv and have a plan in place when you even think about buying. Do that, and you won't need to throw away some great food for which you just spent a pretty penny, and that would be a true shame.
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