Pete's Catfish

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We found some catfish fillets on sale, and it was very shortly after I'd seen this episode. I've never made catfish, but have had it in restaurants and liked it. I soaked it all day in buttermilk (wanting to avoid any added salt. I added no salt to anything. We panfried it in peanut oil, mostly because I didn't have much peanut oil. I fried 4 fillets, and they were wonderful. I will do this again, when the fillets go on sale.

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I used blackfish bc "up here in these parts" on Long Island NY, saltwater fish is more abundant. I also didn't have to soak the fish, saving time. When I first tasted the flour, cornmeal, s&p mixture, it tasted blah to me. So I added a tsp of onion powder and a 1/2 tsp of Old Bay. It gave it a little zip. I liked the way the coating stuck on the fish and crisped up, and the oil temp of 300 was right on the money. You can cut down the mixture by half. There was enough cornmeal mixture to coat another 2 lbs of fish.

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I first had catfish when I was traveling in the south several years ago. When I got home, I bought some catfish to prepare at home but it just didn't taste the same. I scoured the internet trying recipe after recipe but nothing tasted like what I had down south. A few weeks ago on Trisha's show I saw this recipe and thought I would try, yet again, to recreate what I had in the south. FINALLY, success! Soaking the fish in a brine overnight did the trick and got rid of that bottom of the river taste. I did cut back a little on the salt in the mixing bag but mixing the cornmeal with flour made a great coating. I'm very happy to have found a catfish recipe that tastes so good. Thank you Trisha!

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I used flounder as that was what I had on hand. I soaked it in the salted water overnight. I reduced the amount of cornmeal and flour since I had 4 thin flounder filets. I pan fried them instead of deep frying using peanut oil. It was great. Just make sure you use enough oil to fry at least half the fish when you pan fry so when you turn it over, it will fry the other half. Looking forward to trying this with catfish.