Baked Catfish

I've discovered a trend. If I'm upset or stressed out, I either eat horribly, grabbing whatever's fastest and perhaps even skipping meals, or I go over board and make mealtimes much more complicated. Guess which avenue causes me to create things that I can post on here....

So today's question: How do you cook catfish? Secondary question: Can I cook decent catfish without going to the store again for ingredients?

Discovery: I like catfish! It's kind of sweet.

So, I decided to go for the baked Catfish recipe since it seemed easiest out of the options I found. I also had all the ingredients on hand! Well, kind of. There was an altering of spices.

Ingredients: 
1/4 cup cornmeal
1/2 tsp smoked paprika
1/2 tsp garlic salt
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp black pepper
1/4 cup milk
1 egg
Catfish fillet

Making the dish:
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees and line a baking sheet with foil. Since I didn't have one, I used a 9x13 pan. Though I still lined and greased it. Stir together the cornmeal with the spices and the milk with the egg. I cut my fillet into 4ths. Dip the catfish in the milk/egg mixture and then coat liberally with the cornmeal mixture. Place them onto the sheet and make sure to spray the top with Pam or somesuch. Apparently that helps with the crispiness. Then put it all in the oven for 15 minutes about. Make sure towards the end of the time to put your oven on broil or flip over the fillets so both sides get a chance to crispify. I forgot, so i flipped them over and added 4 minutes to the time.

How did it turn out?
I would definitely make it again. Like I said before, it was an almost sweet taste. I ate it plain, and I can see how adding some sort of sauce over rice would be really good. I also put the cold leftovers in a spinach salad. That was really good except for the breading all ended up soggy at the bottom. I passed over a recipe for a chowder, and now that I can imagine the taste of catfish, I'm looking forward to trying it sometime.

Catfish is a very good source of Niacin, Vitamin B-12, and Protein.