The US is not exactly known for being home to a nation of fish lovers. However, in some coastal regions and on its islands, such as the Florida Keys, fish and seafood dishes are as wildly popular as they are delicious. I took these pictures of some of what I gobbled up in various restaurants:
Blackened black grouper with mashed potatoes, black bean sauce and spinach
Yellowtail snapper salad with mango salsa
Scallops on sesame rice with edamame beans
Shrimp green curry
Ceviche (a marinated fish dish popular across virtually all of Latin America)
Horseradish-encrusted hogfish on a mountain of salad
A crab cake starter
Fancy any of these…? 🙂
Lady Of The Cakes 
All of the dishes look delicious! What a lucky lady to be able to sample all of them! I like a lot of seafood, but I must admit I am picky about some of it. I will try to be more adventurous next time I can get myself some seafood!
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I’ll try almost anything 🙂 Spain has delicious octopus… didn’t see any of that in Key West. Maybe they don’t grow there, lol.
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I’ll take everything but the scallops and the shrimp. I am started to get excited for FL food!
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You’ll love it!!! Can’t wait to read your Fl posts 🙂
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I am gonna be perpetually drunk
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…with some nice fried fish and pork sandwiches to soak up the alcohol, you can drink even more!
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lol…enabler…
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I live through you, vicariously….
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I am one American who is crazy about seafood, all kinds except squid or octopus! Every one of these dishes looks enticing. I would enjoy them all! That first one of the blackened grouper is especially appealing. 🙂 Shrimp green curry and crab cake starter – all the stuff of dreams! 🙂
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Aw, now I’ve given you cravings 😉
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Man, they all look amazing – you’re going to miss that food surely?
We have no food in the house, so, thanks!
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I’m missing it, believe me… as I do the cakes/pies!
Happy to have given you some inspiration… you’ll be loitering at the supermercado fish counter in a couple of hours 😉
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Am in Vietnam at the moment and the seafood here rocks, but that ceviche dish sounds really good!
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Vietnam?! You do get around! Eat as much as you can. And take pics!
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We are/will. Tis our annual Chinese New Year trip. Lots of stories!
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Yummyyyy!!!! I just had to check exactly where Key West is. Love the way the seafood is served with colourful sallads too. Which one was your favourite?
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ALL OF THEM! 😉 Well, the first one really rocked.
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Were all the dishes as tasty as they look? The Keys have such creative ways of preparing their seafood. I love a mango sauce with snapper.
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They were all totally delicious 🙂
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That blackened Black Grouper looks good to me….the presentation makes it look like a fish gateau! The rest of the dishes also look good….I’m hungry, now!
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Well, you’re approaching dinner time… 😉
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Hardly, way to go yet…
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Hmmm, I’m not a huge fish fan so these don’t get me going quite as much as the cakes did. The salads look good though 😉
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Just as well I’ve got some more cakes coming up… 😉
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Yeh, like I wasn’t already green with envy from the sun, sea, boats, cocks and cakes. These plates look AMAZING! I could dive right in from here. Lucky sod!
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And that from the woman with half a dead pig in the freezer 😉
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More cake please 😉
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Mañana…
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Very unGerman of you 😉
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Looks tasky indeed, and very nicely decorated… rarely I eat fish, since I prefer the vegetable way of life, but so well presented and with a lot of greens… it’s tenting!
Have lovely cake’s day 😀 claudine
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Thanks! Am writing the cake post… 😉
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Wow…..huge portions!!!!! Did you actually get to the end?
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I did manage to eat them, I’m proud to say. But yes, those portions are ginormous, and if I ate like this on a daily basis, I’d be the size of a house. Or an American.
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