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Posts tagged “seafood”

Quick Weeknight Dinner Recipes with Seafood
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Looking for a quick yet elegant dinner recipe for the weekend? Why not try fish? Or scallops? Here's a look back at the quick seafood recipes from last month's Quick Weeknight Meals contest. There's...

What's the Difference Between a Shrimp and a Prawn?

One of my favorite places to eat in San Francisco is Swan Oyster Depot. I usually go for the combination seafood salad, which is a mixture of delectable Dungeness crab, shrimp, and prawns served on l...

The Strangest Food I Ever Ate: Shirako

I consider myself a pretty adventurous eater. I'm nowhere near the level of Anthony Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern, but I'm willing to experience strange new culinary delicacies more than most people I ...

Cambodian-Style Amok Fish
From Nationwide Newspaper Food Sections 7.29.09

If we weren't already thinking about cooking seafood on a lazy summer evening, we are now after browsing this week's food sections. We've got recipes that will take you to Louisiana and the Eastern Sh...

My Great Outdoors: Cecilia's Father's Day Al Fresco Feast

Name: Cecilia Location: Anaheim, CA Type of space: Backyard Tell us about your outdoor project and how you enjoyed it: It's Father's Day, and officially the first day of summer, so we had dined al f...

Thai Crab Salad with Chili, Ginger, and Coconut

Looking for a festive dish this weekend that doesn't involve lamb or ham? How about crab? ...

Tsukiji Fish Market
Tokyo, Japan

Assorted delicacies from the sea The Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo is the world's largest wholesale fish market. Strategically located near the mouth of the Sumida River, it is convenient for fisherm...

How To: Grind Your Own Sausage

As Emma said earlier today, making your own sausage isn't as daunting as one might think. It allows you to control not only the flavor, but the fat and nutrient contents as well! Sausage makes even ...

Finding Cheap Food in San Francisco

Lately, consumers have been concerned about rising food prices, and with good reason. However, it's not hopeless; good bargains are to be found! We've been paying attention to what things are costin...

Northern California Store Review: Oxbow Public Market in Napa

While in Napa last weekend, we visited the new Oxbow Public Market in downtown Napa. Oxbow is a large food hall where everything on sale is food-related in some way; from spices to tea, to wine and k...

Fresh Abalone from American Abalone in Davenport, CA

We've mentioned before how we love buying fresh seafood direct from the source. On Saturday, we decided to check out an abalone farm we've seen several times when we've driven past on Hwy 1 between S...

San Francisco Chronicle Food Section Roundup

This week in the San Francisco Chronicle: recipes for absinthe cocktails, ways to win over beet haters, fish tacos, and pecorino senese cheese....

Weekend Reading: Cheese, Seafood, and Intractable Italians

One of the great things about Italy is they love making rules. And they obey very few. That bit from Robert Trachtenberg's essay in the New York Times Sunday Magazine made us laugh. He defiantly flie...

Drake's Bay Family Farms Oysters

This month at The Kitchn, we're talking about food in literature, and this quote from Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast made me think of a local San Francisco favorite: Drake's Bay Family Farms oy...