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After three attempts, I mastered Halibut Olympia.

Preheat 375

Melt butter in bottom of pyrex dish. Put in lots of onions. Cut fresh halibut in 3/4-1" strips. Pat as dry as you can. Put two strips of hali on onions. Salt & Pepper

Cover with a 50-50 mix of Mayo and Sour Creme.

Bake 20 minutes. Pull out, put on lots of grated cheddar cheese. Bake 3 more minutes.

It's really good. My first two attempts I didn't pat dry and cut my pieces too thick resulting in too much halibut and not enough goop.

Tomorrow I will try mixing some hot sauce in the the mayo/sour cream mixture. I've got a good hunk of halibut in fridge I am working on.

SOunds about like redfish on the halfshell in a way. Sounds good

I am eating a keto type diet right now, so I can eat this way without blowing up like a balloon. It was really good and the halibut wasn't grainy or dry like I had with the thicker cuts. Wondering how I could a smokey flavor to the cheese topping. I had it once at a restaurant and it was smokey. So good.

Smoked cheese?

I love Halibut.....so I copied the recipe....I'll try it in the next few days.

Wife suggested smoked paprika. Will try that too.

Something worth trying for halibut or rockfish is a super easy dish I came up with. Mix 1 heaping tablespoon of this with ~1/4 cup mayo (I prefer veganaise or Costco's avacodo based mayo) and spoon on top of fillets. Bake at 425 until the fillets firm up. Very tasty and simple to make.

Interesting, I hope I can remember this one long enough to buy curry IF the local market has it.

You could always make it from scratch, recipes abound. Most large supermarket chains have an Asian food section with the popularity of Thai food there should be some brand of red curry paste on the shelf. If not, there's always Amazon.

I think it comes out better with the vegi based mayo's, especially the avocada based one I last used than traditional mayo's. I've also done it with sour creme instead of mayo, works as well.

That looks good.

Bacon wrapped halibut for dinner. Getting some mileage out of that fillet of halibut that was given to me. Had another fresh fillet offered to me today, but turned it down.

Halibut is my favorite..... if I were to ever fish Alaska again, it would be straight halibut and lings....

I'm a huge fan of halibut.

A buddy went fishing with me and brought a smoked halibut dip. He cold smokes it, and then puts it in jars and the pressure cooker. Probably the best dip I've ever had. They are shutting us down March 15th for commercial, so now I need to go load up on halibut and get the smoker/pressure cooker going! Going to put a hurt on the spot prawns too.

What’s the limit on halibut up there Joel ?

Might be a cool trip for me and momma for a few days

It's pretty low at the moment for guided. One a day under 38" for guided. Unguided is 2 a day, any size. Subsistence is 20 a day.

Can I book a substance trip??? Grin

I love Hailbut, but mayo and sour cream? Are we 12?

When I read this I thought what a great way to ruin halibut, as I hardly season it. I’m betting halibut is about like eating salad for us. And no he’s not 12....

Smoked paprika is good, but it will not give you the kind of depth you are looking for.

So smoke your onions... Away from direct heat in a smoker just build a bit of smoke and let the onions go for a while. Just check that they are not weeping or they will pick up a lot of smoke, very fast. That will get the smoke into the fish while baking. If the onion weeps and you smoke it too long it will get bitter!

I treat yogurt, mayo, and sour cream the same in HO and use any combination of the three, or any one of them.

With you up to your choice in mayo!