"Carnival cruise lines would offer a better trout than this. I followed this recipe carefully, including making the "Emeril's Essence" (quite a disgusting innuendo really). The fish did turn a beautiful golden brown, but what a tragic waste of such a simple (and sustainable) creature. Emeril never fails to produce such droning middle-american blech and deliver it in his smarmy plebeian "BAMming". I have nothing against the guy, but I can just picture him taking the box of his dried Essence off the shelf and dumping it on the fish.

The black-eyed pea salad was a bit better on its own, but together with the fish was a worse flavor mashup than a ragga infused love ballad. Like I said I have nothing against the guy but his food tastes bad. That is all.