Fish.. a beginners introduction.

Humans can contract tapeworm infections by eating raw fish

You weren't thinking of eating it raw were you?

It doesn't seem any worse than the chance of getting worms from pork IMO

See the very day I have some salmon fillet delivered from trascho this appears in the paper...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3119659/Mother-s-horror-finding-worm-like-parasite-Tesco-salmon.html

However as most chefs know, you put your fish into the freezer for 2 days and it is perfectly safe to eat raw.

If you are going to smoke salmon you need to freeze it first to kill any parasites.
 
A friend of mine who was a chef was often to be heard muttering about the trend for eating under cooked fish because of the worms he had seen in fish.

So......... if you want to eat fish raw or just cooked stick it in the freezer first. Otherwise cook it through.

I have Nathan Outlaws excellent fish cookery books which give you so much more than recipes. He advises freezing fish  before doing any of the raw fish dishes.

I like raw fish dishes and prefer my fish  just cooked.

but fish strikes me as a dry curry rather than a gravy based when I next get 5 minutes .... 

I once had cod tikka masala in Rusholme (Manchester). Rusholme is curry house heaven and the cod tikka masala  I had there was fit for the gods.

If you have a tikka masala base, I bet you could knock one up in next to no time.

Too late now I've scoffed the lot having pan fried it and served with mash , peas and a splodge of ketchup.   

I'll try spicing the salmon - I don't think cod is a fishy fish anyway. They were really nice loins from the grey supermarket