your favorite easy fish recipes

for pre-cooked shrimp, this bittman recipe works well, from memory you just:

chop a few cloves of garlic into v thin slices, heat some good olive oil, a generous amount, in a pan, then add the garlic and cook it a little, add a spoon of cumin, one of paprika, plus salt and pepper, and then add the shrimp for a minute and stir everything around. serve it with boiled rice or a flatbread.

really is amazing. and obv the better quality your paprika/garlic/oil...

i had gotten pretty confident about sauteeing fish but the kind i bought this time was unexpectedly much thinner than i'm used to and it totally threw me off. it ended up way too oily but still sticking to the pan and breaking up. in hindsight i probably should have used way less oil at a lower-than-usual temp but i just got frustrated and kept fucking it up, ended up with a whole batch of fish glop that i threw away without even trying.

I am cooking fish tonight and all of our spices are packed except for popcorn salt.

BTW I don't use pre-cooked shrimp anymore, I use raw shrimp and use the Cook's Illustrated pan-seared shrimp recipe which is delicious though it's really easy to burn yourself turning all the shrimp really quickly in super-hot oil
http://www.food.com/recipe/pan-seared-shrimp-with-garlic-lemon-butter-139797 <- this is the recipe even though they don't credit Cook's Illustrated

random thoughts:
1) if you burn yourself enough the nerve endings will eventually get destroyed and you won't feel burns (this is where i'm at after working a mesquite grill hours a day even though it was many years ago)
2) use long tongs for turning
3)consider wearing a oven mitt or glove whilst using tongs to turn.
oh, also hope you are not using any teflon coated pan to heat to smoking. that can def be carcinogenic

1. Open tinned sardines, place on plate and microwave for around 30 seconds
2. Toast and butter bread
3. Put sardines on toast. Enjoy.