Grilled Shark Loin

I am eventually going to blog about my new approach to food, but tonight I'm just going to tell what I cooked.

I found fresh shark loin in the seafood section at Safeway that said it was wild caught. (I don't know what other kind of shark meat is available, and I'm guessing it wouldn't work well to farm sharks, but I suppose we could find a way to make it happen if we really tried hard.) I marinated it in a mixture of olive oil, soy sauce, lemon juice, lime juice, garlic, salt, and pepper. That marinade wasn't from a recipe, it was just what was available in the kitchen and seemed like it might all work together. Then I grilled it.

It turned out ok. I think shark meat probably isn't my favorite, though I don't quite know how to describe it. It is almost bitter, and sort of musty. A few bites of it were very tasty though - the ones that were towards the center of the concentric circle patterns in the meat. They were the whitest in color and they tasted more like pork than anything else I could describe.

Even though I didn't especially like how it turned out, I'm glad I tried it. I used to be extremely averse to trying new food, but now I enjoy exploring.