Do you bastard monkfish a lot when pan fried?

[CityCommuter]

Just that! I bought some monkfish yesterday and plan to pan fry it for tomorrow's dinner. It's not something we usually cook in our house but I've tried it on holiday before and love it because it's not 'fishy' IYSWIM! Anyway I've looked at a few easy recipes of butter, olive oil and white wine but some say to bastard it throughout cooking and others just occasionally! Ideas please...

LTB (leave the bastard (monkfish))

This is my first FTB, fry the bastard.

I think the best thing is how the OP starts with “Just that!”

For a split second upon reading the thread title, I imagined someone pan frying their monkfish while shouting profanities at it 🤣🤣

OMG I am WEEPING with laughter. Definitely LTB but don’t leave the house - chuck it outside and change the locks.

This thread has made my day 😂. Thanks OP!

I don't allow Bastard Monkfish through the door these days. Once bitten twice shy.
Leave it OP. It's not worth it.

@MiddleClassProblem

It’s a shame it’s parents were unable to may it offishal in the house of Cod.

offishal

Love it!

A light bastarding should suffice

@MrsLCSofLichfield

Monkfish, ya bass! Glaswegian fish gang rivalry. Sturgeon vs Salmon(d), etc.

😂😂😂

Hilarious. 🙄 'Autocorrect did it.' Yeah right.

D minus. Must try harder next time @CityCommuter

My little brother announced to a whole supermarket that we were buying a bastard turkey one Christmas

Are people so naive that they think the OP posted 'bastard' instead of 'baste' accidently? Come on........... 🙄

I'm not swallowing this 🐟

DH has just enquired what the hoots of mirth are about. Bastard Monkfish now my favourite oath. For the record, this is not ordinary monkfish, this is authentic, result of a drunken on-the-rebound liaison with a randy mullet one night (when she sobered up, the mama monkfish thought ‘omg, I shagged a fish with that hairstyle?’). Yes, this is M&S Bastard Monkfish!

excellent job OP. Definitely just bastard it occasionally. You don't want it getting a complex.

OMG so funny OP. I can't stop laughing at the title.

I often out mine in a thai yellow curry and it's always a winner never a bastard.

@BastardMonkfish

Just when you're thinking about getting a new username, one drops into your lap

BearOfEasttown is more like a fish out of water on this thread than a bear. Sense of humour sunk to the bottom of the ocean never to be flounder again.

This is priceless 🤣🤪😂🤣

I’ve never cooked one but I know they’re ugly bastards.

🤣

I like having it wrapped in pancetta and cooked in oven. Then the bastard can't escape!