my god, that fish is incredible. sorry about the low-quality cellphone photo, but i was in a rush, and really want to come back to this blog. what follows was originally posted to Facebook, but it needs to be here, too. For posterity. And delicious reflection.
Here is the colloquial recipe:
take frozen whitefish and stick it your fridge to thaw overnight. when you're ready to nom, make your tartar sauce, which is so easy, you'll regret ever paying a corporation for premade paste -- a cup of mayo, a couple spoons of relish (i use a dill pickle spear cut up into little chunks, but plenty use sweet relish from the jar), counter the pickle with a lot of lemon juice (like 2:1 lemon:relish), add minced onion or onion powder, add a little sriracha, and let that marry in the fridge for at least ten minutes.
when the sauce has firmed up a bit and the flavors are well-mingled (you can tell, just stick a digit in and lick it before and after, there's a noticeable difference when it's melded), pat your thawed fish dry with some paper towels, then coat them lightly in flour before spooning the tartar sauce on the fish. do one side at a time, and have a wide dish (i use my tupperware, whatever's the length of the fish) filled with breadcrumbs and shaker parmesan powder.
put the fish, tartar side down, one at a time, in the breadcrumb/cheese tray, then coat the other side of the fish with tartar and shake it a bit to cover evenly, sprinkling the breading on the fish so it sticks. remove fillet and place in a greased oven pan (i use one of my twin circle cake pans, fits two fish in it snugly). repeat for all other fillets, then stick in the oven at 400F for ten, fifteen minutes, until the edges go almost black and the breading passes gold and starts to brown in most places. it is awesome, lemony yet light-tasting, and no frying required.
i paired this with a sliced yellow squash, sprayed with oil and coated in the remaining tartar/breadcrumbs before baking it alongside the fish. they both finished together, and were incredible. gabe says it was awesome, and i've been meaning to make fish once a week, so this recipe's a real winner. found it on reddit, in a weeknight dinner thread. definitely try it! a huge bag of frozen whitefish (the cheap ones) is under 5-10 bucks, and is supposed to be quite good for you, aside from being delicious and light. yum!