7/5/2005: Largest fresh water fish ever caught

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Originally Posted by chrisinhouston

Probably one of the strangest fish dishes is Lutefisk from Norway where in the old days it was usually cod that was dried and treated with lye as a preservative. It was typically served smothered in bacon fat or mustard for Christmas dinner;

I have had lutefisk. You can't live in Ballard and not have lutefisk (you'd probably be driven out). It is cod cured in lye. The mystery of why you don't die from poisoning is intact. However, it is a dish that you should try.

I have not had it with bacon grease, but with a little butter on top. I would say that it's delicious, but that would be the butter talking, because the fish itself was so mild as to be practially tasteless. The texture was interesting--very soft and without much grain. Maybe like firm tofu. It was pretty to look at, blindingly white, and somewhat translucent, like a clear piece of squid. Check it out sometime.