Recipe#10951

Title: Blackened Catfish

Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes 
 From: Fritz.Knabe@ecrc.de (Fritz Knabe) 
 Subject: Blackened Catfish 
 Message-ID: KNABE.93Oct20081207@acrab44.ecrc.de 
 Organization: European Computer-Industry Research Centre 
 Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 07:12:06 GMT 

Nobody, to my knowledge, has died from eating this dish (though the
 cooking process itself is hazardous)
 4 catfish fillets
 olive oil
 1/3 lb cheap fatty bacon
 2 t each of:
 garlic powder
 thyme
 white pepper
 black pepper
 cayenne pepper
 lemon pepper
 cumin or chili powder
 rosemary (crush in hand before adding)
 fennel seed (crush with back of spoon)
 1 t allspice
 1 t oregano
 1/2 t salt
 First off, you should cook this in a well-ventilated kitchen.
 Fry the bacon, then feed it to the dogs and hang onto the grease.
 Keep it just this side of smoking.  Combine all dry ingredients, rub
 fillets with olive oil then coat liberally with spices. Drop in hot
 grease and cook until a you can easily put a fork through them
 (nothing more evil than overcooked catfish). 
 Serve with lemon butter, below:
 1/4 c melted butter,
 1 T lemon juice,
 1/2 t tobasco
 sliced green onions
 (note: This is a very robust recipe. I have varied proportions by as
 much as 100%, and left out ingredients entirely, with varying,
 interesting, but never disastrous effect.)