This San Francisco Italian-American classic was our contribution to dinner at family beach week on the Outer Banks this year. This will provide 4 ample servings. See the bottom of the posting for notes about quantities for large groups. Scoma’s Cioppino Serves 4 Cioppino Sauce Base ¼ cup olive oil 1 medium onion, diced 2 Read More …
This simple but extremely tasty recipe is an adaptation from a camping recipe in Wikibooks. Use whatever kind of grits you happen to have. I had a container of Quaker Quick 5 minute grits, which is why I used them in this recipe. Slower cooking artisanal grits would be even better. This makes 4 Read More …
Frank Pepe’s in New Haven is famous for their clam pizza, and there is a good version of it in Peter Reinhart’s excellent book American Pie. In Houston it was much easier to get good shrimp than good clams, so I started making a similar pizza using shrimp as the base. This is my latest Read More …
Gambas al Ajillo was one of the first Spanish dishes I ever ate, and it has long been one of my favorites. With some good bread, a salad, and good white wine, it makes about a perfect dinner, and is fairly quick to put together since it is essentially just a shrimp saute with lots Read More …
When I lived in Japan, I ate a lot of excellent grilled fish, but there was one type of grilled fish which I thought was exceptionally good. That turned out to be fish which had been marinated in miso and mirin. The salt in the miso and the sugar in the mirin lightly cured the Read More …
This baked shrimp and feta dish is a family favorite. The recipe is an adaptation of a recipe in an excellent small cookbook which Georgia Lyras wrote for Krinos Foods in 1985. It can be baked in one large dish, or as shown in the photo in individual baking dishes. Four Servings 1-1/2 lbs. shrimp 3 Tbs. Read More …
This sauce appeared in James Beard’s Theory & Practice of Good Cooking as a sauce for gravlax. It is good for that, but more typically I use it with smoked salmon as an alternative to cream cheese or a horseradish mayonnaise sauce. It is also good with broiled or grilled salmon. 4 Tbs. German mustard Read More …
This Spanish classic is a personal favorite. This is a dish in which the smaller and less expensive shrimp are better than the larger shrimp. This, good French bread, a salad, and champagne makes a perfect dinner, and one that does not take much time to prepare. A key to success is to be sure Read More …
We had a cup of crabmeat left over from a crab feast, and I thought that could be the basis of an excellent crab dip, and it was. This recipe is an adaptation from a recipe which appeared in www.torontolife.com. 1 cup crab meat 6 oz. cream cheese 2-1/2 Tbs. mayonnaise 3 Tbs. finely chopped Read More …