Basa and... gah!

Tonight for supper we will try...

( Lemon Catfish Bake )

This is because when I went to Safeway yesterday I was able to pick up four nice big fillets of basa, which is related to catfish and apparently cooks up pretty much the same, for a relatively cheap price. (ETA: Through the Aqua Star site, I discovered that the fish they market is actually "hypo basa", which is in fact the tra referred to in the article above. The species name is Pangasius hypophthalmus, it's pretty big, and it is also called the iridescent shark, even though it's a type of catfish. It was still mighty tasty; see the ETA below. :-))

In other news, my brother-in-law is now gone to his own apartment. In bad news, he might have succeeded in fucking up our relationship with our bank. Longish story, and one I'm a bit too angry to tell right now. *sigh* We take him into our home, we help him out... and he repays us with this.

More later, if I think it's worthwhile.

ETA: Wow! What terrific fish! Meaty and slightly sweet, and very satisfying. Below is the letter I just wrote to the company that packaged it, Aqua Star, which includes my own variation on the recipe I posted above. As noted, I've never been inspired to write a letter praising a product before, but this was SO good, I was moved to communicate...

( Letter and the recipe I actually made )