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Baked Tilapia with Lime

Kristen — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 19:07:26 +0000

It’s not fancy but it’s good – we hope you enjoy this baked tilapia with lime straight from the Dine & Dish home kitchen!

I think one of the challenges I have with food blogging, especially today, is the fact that it’s such a profession now. Every picture you see out there is a gorgeous display of incredible styling and photography skill. In fact, I was going through my archives from 11 years ago trying to see if there were any photos I could salvage that were considered “good” then, and felt a bit embarrassed by them. In today’s standards, they were pretty terrible!

I love food photography and styling so much, but sometimes I just want to share what I’m having for dinner like in the early days of blogging. Lately I haven’t been up for the fuss, so instead of sharing not professionally looking styled pictures of recipes I love, I just haven’t been sharing anything at all. And that’s a shame. Some of my most simple, family friendly, staple kind of recipes come after the “studio” is shut down and I’m simply cooking for my family. …

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Tasty Tilapia Recipe

Kristen — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:21:53 +0000

This tasty Tilapia Recipe can be your ultimate “fast food” on a busy weeknight! Make it today and turn even your pickiest of fish eaters into fans!

I’ve been blogging for close to 3 years now and apparently I haven’t learned a darn thing in the time that I have been doing this. One of the rules of blogging, according to such pros as Darren Rowse from ProBlogger, is to have a plan for your blog if you are taking a blogging break. Have guest writers, plan some posts in advance to launch while you are on your break, return to your archives and share posts from the past… all of these options are good ones if you plan on taking a vacation from blogging.

If I was thinking ahead of time, I certainly would have done any one of these. The truth is, I didn’t think I’d be gone for long. I thought that I would maybe even be blogging from the hospital bed soon after the baby was born! Then this sweet little pumpkin entered into my life and I suddenly found that I had other things I wanted to focus my time on. The challenge with food blogging is that even if you have the desire to write, the desire to cook may not accompany the writing desire. It seems as if that is the case for me anyway….

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Parmesan Crusted Tilapia

Kristen — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:27:33 +0000

I do not remember ever having a meal at home that included seafood when I was growing up. My mom made a lot of delicious meals, but I never recall having shrimp, salmon, cod… any of that. My husband, growing up on a cattle farm, was the same way. Everything was meat and potatoes. He never had seafood growing up except maybe during Lent and for that they would go to a little town nearby for some fish at a restaurant (Masonville, IA… the best fried fish around. YUM!).

My husband and I love seafood. In fact, if we are going out to a nice dinner, a seafood restaurant would top our choice of places to go. Cooking seafood is one of my favorite things to cook. My kids love it, I love it, hubby loves it. We have become quite the fish family.

Of course, living in the midwest is nothing like what some of you experience living on the coast. Fresh seafood is not something that is readily available at a price I can afford. A lot of the fish we buy comes frozen from Costco. Either way, we do with what we can get our hands on and enjoy to experiment with different varieties and flavors.

I am slowly but surely building up my seafood recipe repitoire. In fact, I imagine that a lot of the recipes my kids will remember when they grow up have something to do with seafood. That is what I love about family recipes… they can be from the past generations, the current generations and then what the future generations take and do with them. The family recipe box is ever expanding!

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Parmesan Crusted Tilapia (from Recipezaar.com)

25 min | 5 min prep

SERVES 2

3-4 tilapia fillets, depending on size
1/4 cup breadcrumbs or crushed Ritz cracker
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon lemon juice
salt
pepper
garlic powder
olive oil

Thaw and wash tilapia fillets if frozen. Pat dry on paper towels.
Combine crumbs, parmesan, Italian seasoning and garlic powder on a plate, mixing well.
On a different plate, pour 1 tbsp lemon juice.
Working 1 at a time, place a fillet on the plate in the lemon juice, sprinkle with desired amount of kosher salt (be careful about how much salt is in your parmesan, crumbs, and other seasonings), black pepper, and garlic powder. Turn the fillet over in the lemon juice and sprinkle seasoning on the other side.
Dredge fillet in the parmesan mixture patting it all over to coat.
Place in an oiled baking dish, repeat with remaining fillets.
Sprinkle a little lemon juice over fillets and drizzle or spray them lightly with olive oil.
Bake at 425ºF for about 20 minutes or until they easily flake with a fork and edges are browning (you can sprinkle some more parmesan on top if desired). You can also bake these faster at 450ºF.

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