With eating fish comes responsibility.

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What's that, again?  Oh, well, if you are going to eat fish, shrimp, or shellfish, or the like then you have to do some things.  First, buy as fresh as you can.  Better out some coin than out some coin and with bad fish.  A bit more for a bit less means care in use and a bit of humility in consumption.  If you aren't coastal, that is as good as it gets.  Still, I would like to do trout.  Even that is a bit of an expense to obtain, mind you.  I doubt if it is any cheaper, costs over price.  Though I think that taking a trip up, camping over several days, maybe a week, if care is given in foods and living arrangements, perhaps trout could be had at a better price, though time is money too... just less expensive for one such as myself than for most.

Okay, after freshness?  Ah, cleanliness.  I found this out quickly, last time.  If you cook fish or the like, you must clean up immediately.  Any waste needs to be tended, first in the kitchen, then out of the house.  Quickly.  Hie!  That stuff goes bad so fast your head will spin.  Cooking the food will put a bit of a stank in the dwelling, but that will pass.  Remnants will put a stink on the place that lives like a curse, one which can only be lifted first by removing the source, then allowing enough air in, then back out, to carry it off.  Clean, immediately.  Trash out, pots, pans, utensils, in a soak at least.  Any fluids best to flush, as if put in the trash I swear it always finds a way out of the "waterproof" trash bags.  Always.  Even this time.  Which means I double bagged (initially out of an abundance of caution, which happened to be right), and after I have hit the dishes once I will rinse out the trash container.  Bleh.

Love fish and etc.  Do not like the immediacy of cleanliness.  Still, gotta do that if I want to eat good food.  Once a week.  I can handle the expense and work.  Though, usually, with just fish, the hassle is much less.  Shrimp, lobster, even probably oysters, and the work load doubles and more.  Still, worth it.  Sacrifice for sacrifice?  Yeah.  The shrimp was fantastic though.  And I made clarified butter, enough for a bit, or ghee as some call it.  Mostly the same thing, good for lots of things, lasts well if prepped then put in the refrigerator.

Now for a settling gallon of tea, with lemon.  Later.