Fish and Seafood as Frugal Snack or Cocktail Food Cooking 101 Strategies Professional & University Etiquette Provisioning

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Fish can be served as snack or cocktail food. You can serve Anchovies, Anchovy fillets,Herring, Lox, Mackerel or Wild Salmon. Salmon or King Salmon from Fresh Cold Water can be used to make a dip. 1 c. Salmon can be mixed with minced celery, olive or safflower oil, and diced onions or apples. To it you can add a Classic Mustard to taste. Allow to marinate and serve. Fast food restaurants now serve you Cod.Sardines in oil or mustard can be served with crackers. Laugh if you want, you will not have leftovers. You can eat sardines and rice, and enjoy a kind of poor man’s sushi. Any restaurant will sell or give you a side of rice. Sole or sturgeon could be served as a cocktail food. Tilapia can be cut into nuggets or strips for a really frugal fish. You may serve fish as a whole fillet. Each can be grilled or fried in under four minutes per side, or baked in under twenty, (my personal “cooking” limit.
Tuna can be made as a dip: What to do: Get 1 can tuna, ½ apple, 1 diced stalk of celery, 1 Tsp sweet pickle relish, then you decide 1-2 Tbsp low fat mayonnaise, mustard, or olive oil. Tuna may be your best bet as a frugal fish. Canned tuna holds well for long term storage.
In the wild canned tuna is portable and portion controlled. And on sale Albacore tuna can be had for less than one dollar a can. Beware some chunk can just be junk. Onions diced or in small chunks can be added to tuna as a vegetable and for crunch. To stretch this dish add as many onions as you wish. Tuna, R, and low fat mayonnaise can be made into JH pate. Remember this; some will only eat seafood protein that once had sea wings – fins, scales, and a tail. This they call fish. At least one Native American group is forbidden from eating any fish, or seafood including Salmon. Some people will not eat fish. Note: while most everyone can eat fish, only some can or wish to eat seafood, no matter how great a plate or tray you make. And no matter what you do with it, here shrimp is seafood not fish. For those that do seafood can be served as cocktail food. You can serve
Mussels or Oysters from a can. Caviar is what to serve after you get over being frugal. Dips can be what to serve in the mean time. Seafood can be served as dips Clams (can be mixed with cream cheese and eaten as a dip.) You can use Lobster or Shrimp. When times get better you can serve shrimp on platters and trays, with a proper cocktail sauce made of Ketchup (w/o High Fructose Corn Syrup) and Horseradish. Omega- 3s “fatty acids in fish prevent arterial plaque from forming.” You may be too young to worry about that but it also can help to make your metabolism more efficient, slow digestion, and prevent cravings, and keep you from getting fat. Fish can be cooked or topped with Bruschetta Sauce or Salsa.