Mackerel Italienne, Rey's way

[backcast]

Ok it's getting close to kingfish time and this is an awesome, easy way to make them tasty. Even my picky azz wife eats this. I got the base of this recipe from an old LL Bean cookbook and added a couple of things.

1 onion, chopped
1 green pepper, chopped (recipe calls for 1/2 but I like more)
4/5 cloves of garlic, minced (recipe calls for 3, but I like garlic)
4 Tb olive oil
4 Tb capers, (recipe calls for 2, but i like capers)
? green olives pimiento stuffed, sliced or whole (how ever much you think)
1 can tomato sauce
1 tsp oregano
1/2 tsp cumin
A few dashes of Worcestershire sauce
A few dashes of hot sauce (recipe does not call for this)
salt/pepper

Saute the onion, pepper, and garlic in oil, then add the capers, olives, tomato sauce, oregano, cumin, Worcestershire, hot sauce, and simmer for 20 minutes.
In an oven proof dish, spoon a couple of tablespoons of sauce and lay fillets
Pour on remaining sauce and bake the fillets at 450' for 7-10 minutes.

I like to serve this over yellow rice. I've done this with all kinds of fish and it's pretty tasty.

[Steve.r]

That looks like a good way to cook them backcast , I like anyway but that just me , love to take my kids out to troll for spanish mackerol in the tampa bay channel , last year I caught them as big as I've ever seen them in the bay , there were small kings with them.

[backcast]

There were absolute beasts of spanish in the bay last year. The huge ones I'd see in singles swimming around the cans when I was chasing cobia and triple tail.

[Steve.r]

Ya the cobia I caught was around the cans strait out from simmins park from the big four legged tower the the last tower before port manatee. There were a few cobia that seen in the 50 to 70 pound range the biggest i got was 57 pounds the first bouy passed the bahai beach reef south.If you wereout there I bet we crossed paths a few times I was in a 16 DLX skiff i zig zag from side to side.

[backcast]

Ya the cobia I caught was around the cans strait out from simmins park from the big four legged tower the the last tower before port manatee. There were a few cobia that seen in the 50 to 70 pound range the biggest i got was 57 pounds the first bouy passed the bahai beach reef south.If you wereout there I bet we crossed paths a few times I was in a 16 DLX skiff i zig zag from side to side.

I'm normally in a 17 pathfinder...by myself, during the week. Sometimes in a 22 Pathfinder up in the tower. They're fun and delicious. Got worked by some bigguns under the bridges while filling the coolers with pompano last year. Really makes the 10lb outfits work.

[duckbone]

I have a Snapper recipe thats real close to that Rey. We catch spanish macks out of schools that are acres in size during the spring cobia run and they love to chop thru a cast net.

[backcast]

The last time I made this i did it with Genuine Reds in Alabama.
Too bad they're endangered:bs:

[nosoypato]

Sounds real tasty, I'll try it if any fish has the misfortune of to flip into my cooler. I see that you're nestling nicely.