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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...

Kristopher's Seared Char with Asian Kale
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Recipe: Seared Char with Asian Kale How long does it take? 20-25 minutes (depends on your prep speed) Category: Omnivore Name: Kristopher Why is it a favorite meal? It's delicious, simple, and extre...

Cool Recipe: Lia's White Fish Citrus Salad with Garlic Fries
Stay Cool!

Name: Lia Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan How are you staying cool? Midwestern summer cooking without air conditioning means grilling, no cook dinners like salads, and using the toaster oven in place of...

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...

Summer Pairing: Ceviche with Popcorn

Ceviche is a great food for summer. It requires very little if any cooking, and it's full of bright flavors and fresh colors. We ate some shrimp ceviche in a restaurant a couple of years ago that h...

Strut That Sustainable Sockeye (With Recipe)
Guest Post from Clare Leschin-Hoar

Sometimes doing the right thing is just a matter of being aware of what’s going on around you — especially when it comes to the fish we like to eat. We gave up eating farmed-raised salmon year...

Simple Supper: Snapper Veracruzana
Guest Post from Laura of Cloves and Cream

More nights than I care to admit, getting dinner on the table can feel like a feat. Let alone an interesting dinner (pizza, again!?). It's all I can do not to reach for the phone and call my beloved C...

Basic Technique: Dry Poaching

"Dry" and "poaching" might sound like an oxymoron, but hear us out! This is a great technique to use with small cuts that don't have a lot of internal fat to keep them moist. Here's how......

Food Science: How Meat is Cured

Glance into the meat cases at any grocery store and you'll see a whole slew of cured meat products, some of which look raw and some of which look like they could survive a cross-country back packing t...

Fish on Fridays: Seafood Recipes for Lent

We know a lot of you are giving up something for Lent. Maybe it's sweets or alcohol, or maybe you're going full-on vegetarian. More common is the Catholic tradition of eating fish on Fridays. For ...

Kenya Eating: Fish, Ugali, and Sukuma Wiki

Mandazi to sukuma wiki: Last week I shared five foods we ate while traveling in Kenya earlier this month. Here is one last stop for Kenyan food -- a popular Kenyan eatery in Nairobi that serves comple...

The Fish and Cheese Debate
The Cheesemonger

There's no official legislation outlawing the presence of fish and cheese on the same plate, but for many Italians — and those of us who would wish to remain in their gastronomic good graces &md...

Blogging Domino: Light Dinner Party, Tiny Kitchen

Just because we're eating light doesn't mean we can't entertain. Domino put together a Thai-inspired meal that can be prepared easily in a tiny apartment kitchen. (It'll work fine in a big kitchen too...

Use Caution When Eating Escolar

Perhaps you've seen this fish at your local fishmonger or on the menu at restaurants. Sometimes it's under the name "butterfish," "oilfish," or "waloo/walu." Sushi restaurants occasionally serve it ...

Good Fish, Bad Fish: How to Inspect Fish for Freshness

Kristin's post earlier this week about how to store fish reminded us of some advice we received in culinary school about how to distinguish the good fresh fish from those that are past their prime....

Grilling Questions for Diane Morgan: How To Grill Fish?

Last week we asked you if you had any questions for Diane Morgan, author of Grill Every Day and a true expert on grilling. The first question we chose among your suggestions was perhaps the most repre...

Recipe Review: Emeril's Fish Provencal

When we opened up this month's Everyday Food, there was one recipe that immediately leapt off the page. We had to try it. ...

Grill Recipe of the Day: Grilled Mackerel with Garlic, Lemon and Fennel

It's Grilling Month, but we're going to kick off our daily grill recipes with one that actually calls for the broiler. You could do this on the grill too, but this can ease you into it (and let any of...

Recipe: Fish Steamed In Banana Leaves

We've sung the praises of steamed fish before (Whole Steamed Rockfish and Lettuce-Wrapped Steamed Fish) and today we're going to share a new recipe....

Find them Now: Kosher for Passover Foods

Those of you who don't celebrate Passover may be just skimming our posts about the holiday, thinking, "Yeah, yeah, this doesn't apply to me." But this post, at least, you should pay attention to. Th...

Cooking With Julia: Cook Sole Meunière With Us This Week

Our Book Club wrapped up last week, and it was such a treat to read through Julia Child's memoir. My Life in France is full of life, color, and the intense pleasure that can be found in cooking good f...

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...