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Posts tagged “Fish/Shellfish”

Living the DIY Wedding: Smoked Fish and a Woven Mat of Leeks

I cooked all the food for my own wedding (50 attendees) a couple of weeks ago. Well, I didn't cook everything. I bought 25 pounds of smoked fish from Acme Smoked Fish in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. They smo...

How To Bake Salmon Fillets

Good salmon is at a premium these days. Dana recently wrote about her special splurge on truly wild salmon. We've also reported on the increasing rarity of really well-raised salmon. We do anticipate ...

Recipe: Linguine with Mussels and Dandelion Greens

For some reason we often find ourselves shying away from the seafood section at the grocery store. Particularly with shellfish, there's an intimidation factor that just isn't there with chicken or ste...

Recipe: John Besh's Louisiana Speckled Trout Amandine

On my recent trip to New Orleans, I had the pleasure of tasting some incredible food, from classic po' boys to quite elegant, Bayou-inspired cuisine. My first night there a whole gaggle of food journ...

Recipe: Pecan Crusted Salmon with Sautéed Ramps and Purple Potatoes

With those glorious spring ramps in hand, we wanted to make something special. We thought about simply sautéing them, and making a ramp pseudo-carbonara with pasta, bacon, the ramps and an egg, or ma...

Super Bowl or Super Tuesday Party? Serve Salmon Burgers

If you're hosting a party for the Super Bowl (or Super Tuesday), we suggest serving up salmon burgers. They're a little unexpected, but total finger food -- and best of all, they come together in le...

Recipe: Cool and Spicy Fish and Cucumber Salad

Southeast Asian cuisine is a study in contrasts. Sour, sweet, spicy, and savory all find a balance in the most perfect Thai and Vietnamese dishes. One of those is laab - a spicy and sour meat salad wi...

Recipe: Ginger and Cilantro Baked Tilapia

This quick and easy fish bake is one of the first things we learned to cook after college, setting up house on our own. It seemed exotic at the time; now it's a pleasant, familiar standby on a busy ...

Fish on Fridays: Linguine with Clam Sauce

We're dreaming of clam bakes and lobster rolls served oceanside, but we're still leaping over snowbanks here in New York. Beach weather is months away, but a quick dinner of Linguine with Clam Sauce ...

Recipe: Gravlax

While it takes some advance planning to make gravlax, most of the time spent is unattended, letting the salmon cure. Simply rub some salt, sugar and pepper over two salmon fillets and sandwich the...

Recipe: Fish Tacos

Its good to avoid succumbing to holiday gluttony 24/7 so heres a little something on the lighter side to add to the Fish on Fridays category. I always forget how good, healthy and easy fish tacos a...

Technique: Roasting Dungeness Crab

Were purists about our Dungeness crab. It's such a San Francisco icon. We generally eat it cooked, chilled (if we can wait) and served with melted or browned butter. Sometimes though, its so rainy...

Recipe: Roasted Mahi Mahi with Fennel, Olives and Oranges

Dense, meaty Mahi Mahi lends itself well to roasting. It has a relatively high fat content that plays well with salty olives and tart citrus. This recipe is a good one for a weeknight dinner party, ...

Recipe: Broiled Sardines with Gremolata

Even though I was a picky child, I loved sardines when I was small. My mother would give them to me atop saltine crackers, skin, bones and all, and Id devour them. The first time I tried fresh ones ...

Recipe: Scallops with Lime and Cilantro

If you stop at the grocery store on the way home tonight and pick up five things: a pound of tiny bay scallops, a lime, a bottle of white wine, organic chicken stock and a bunch of cilantro, you can p...

Recipe: Salmon and Caper Fishcakes

It's highly likely that in the next several weeks you might find yourself with an abundance of leftovers. Certain leftovers obviously work really well as, say, a sandwich. But what about mashed po...

Recipe: Whole Steamed Rockfish

This is what I decided to do with the live rockfish that I bought at Manila Oriental Market. I stuffed it with aromatics and steamed it whole. Its surprisingly easy to cook a whole fish this way and...

Recipe: Pan-Seared, Blackened Tilapia with Cooling Yogurt Sauce

Pan-Seared, Blackened Tilapia with Cooling Yogurt Sauce is my final recipe on The Dannon Kitchen, and it's not for the faint of heart. This is a spicy guy. Of course, if you aren't into the blow-y...

Recipe: "Schvitz" Fish Stew

A good friend has been serving this stew up for a few winters now - often at my request. She adapted it from Deborah Madisons Tomato, Fennel, and Potato Stew with Saffron recipe (The Savory Way, 199...

Recipe: Easy Valentine's Farfalle with Wild Northern Shrimp

Excitement over the availability of Wild Northern Shrimp from Maine had me blowing my Valentine's Day dinner plans early. But what great scheduling on my part - now you have the recipe to use on the ...

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