Cod Or Halibut all the way. Depending on what you are doing what is better. Fish and Chips? Cod. Baked? Halibut.
My choice would be to send those back and get Ambjerack. Or Cobia. Although, I might eat one in your list just for the Halibut.
Halibut all day. Halibut, sole, flounder, love those fish just for their versatility. Tuna and dorado are the only two fish I'd consistently prefer eating to them. Shark comes close, as does red drum, sea trout, and lionfish.
I just finished having a seafood pasta with prawns, salmon, talapia, all in a spicy white wine cream sauce with fresh basil, lime, and chili peppers. Nothing wrong with having it all, if done right.
Stews and soups are something this country has lost the appetite for but I think hold a ton of value in both cost and flavor. Give me something nice with some good bread and I'll be as satisfied as if I had a steak,....almost anyway. Its kind of hipsterish but I really like the ramen trend. A nice bowl of ramen and pork belly (yes hipster I know) and a beer and I'm very happy
Halibut would be my choice. Great now I want fish. I'm making blue cheese buffalo burgers for dinner, with bacon of course. We recently switched from ground beef to buffalo. It tastes so much better. Put all of that lusciousness on a brioche bun and you've got a damn good burger. PS I have found two useful things in regards to bacon on burgers. The first one we've talked about, always cook it in the oven and second, NOT using thick sliced. It gets crispy and is far easier to eat without pulling off the entire strip in one bite.
Fuck it I'm getting my first tattoo. Enough putting it off. I'm going to get "courage" in cursive across my left shoulder blade. Courage means a lot to me, especially with my twin and I. For him courage is approaching and enduring cancer treatments with a positive attitude, for me it means surviving my personal challenges and working towards a positive end and pushing through the day to day bullshit.
Remember that where you put it can mean something. Ideally, it should. I was fortunate to find a great artist for mine, and for my brain tumor/survivor tattoo I originally wanted it on my shoulder blade as well. His argument was basically something like this, "if you're proud of it, put it in a place where you'll see it." So I put it on my shoulder, like facing outward. Best decision ever. You get tattoos for yourself, not (always) for other people. Once my grandfather finally passes, and it's coming soon we all think, I'm going to get a tattoo for him on my shoulder blade, the placement because it's like he's watching over me. He was the one who introduced me to fishing when I was a little kid and I haven't stopped since. So it'll be a black and grey silhouette of a man and a child sitting on a dock by the lake fishing.
It's funny when people have cultural hangups that prevent them from experiencing incredible food. I'm going to the coast in a few weeks with my in-laws. We rented a house a drunk walk from the beach and my kayak is finally rigged out to get me where the fish are. The my truck is going to be turned into a beach kitchen on wheels, with the 120v outlets I have inside and my diesel engine serving as backup to the charcoal grill and tables I'll setup in the bed. When I told them I'd be targeting singray, the consensus reaction was that I was insane. Sorry, but that shit is straight delectable. It tastes like grouper but with the texture of a shellfish, more like crab or lobster. Cut off the wings, use the body as shark bait, skin the wings and throw on some BBQ sauce (I cut my BBQ sauce 50/50 with champagne). It's like heaven. Stingray tacos or kabobs are insane.
I don't get food hangups unless you're worried its going to make you sick. If thats that not on your mind, whats the worst that can happen? You don't like it? Dam wouldn't that be terrible. My now ex-gf used to dip pickles in mayo as a night time snack. I know what I said above, but I dont need to try that to know I'd hate it
I think I just ruined my mother in law's night by reminding her that chances are good she's unknowingly had stingray at least once in a restaurant before. See, she loves scallops. She'll order them even if we're in the type of place where it doesn't look like the chef can even spell "scallop." Guess what gets substituted for scallops a lot, because it is insanely cheaper and tastes basically the same?