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Hmmm, now I'm in the mood for some fried catfish-hushpuppy-chicken-waffle-and-cheese-grit casserole.

Sure, sometimes they are excellent, but some are not.  It torques my shorts.  We tried a steakhouse that is locally famous called "Bones" and it was packed on a Tuesday night.  Was the steak epic?  No, it was fine, mine was actually over cooked a bit.  It was expensive though, the server was a bit snooty I thought as if we didn't really belong.

Maybe it's not fair, we can all make great steak at home of course.  I wanted to try it once.

We had lunch at a "French bistro" yesterday someone recommended.  It was, well, "OK".  I guess.  And crowded.  My wife was not amused.  She ordered saumon carpaccio and was served smoked salmon.  Come on.  She said it was fine, we didn't complain, but it was not carpaccio.

Overall I'm struggling with the food scene here though we have found some good places of course.

Where is "here"? Are you visiting somewhere?

Making homemade fish tacos here.

I'm at home, for now, headed to California next week, and then France next month.  I will likely find some good food there.

My wife makes some great gaspacho.  We had spaghetti last night here.

Man, I gotta go hang out with you cats!
I just browned some ground turkey meat and stirred in taco seasoning. Let the unwashed masses at my place decide whether to put it into taco shells or stir it over tortilla chips.

Oh we do that a lot, too.

Fish tacos were great.  I use cod filets, with a light coating of seasoned flour, then dipped in an egg wash, then dipped in a 3-way combination of normal bread crumbs, panko, and parmesan cheese, finally lightly pan-fried in coconut oil.  Flour tortillas are the cook-at-home kind, which brown up almost a nice as homemade.  Then my i s c & a aggie wife made a cilantro lime slaw and I grated some fresh cotija cheese for the toppings.  Et voila.

I'd probably just serve that fish straight up. 

Sure, we do that too.  It's the first way I could get my kids to eat home-cooked fish.  Since they were accustomed to frozen fish sticks from daycare or wherever, I made fish filets that way and called them "homemade fish sticks."

But my i s c & a aggie wife and I eventually got tired of eating the same old homemade fish sticks and looked for ways to dress it up.  Fish tacos was one of the ways we accomplished that, and after a while the kids wanted to try the tacos, and really liked them, so now that's in the rotation.

Sometimes though, it's just the plain old homemade fish sticks by themselves.  I taught the kids how to make them, and they'll do it on their own now.

I'm assuming there aren't any beans or noodles hiding under the cheese and onions...