A very popular street food in Istanbul is mussels stuffed with rice. This is a simpler deconstructed version in which the mussels are put on top of a bed of flavored rice. It is adapted from John Gregory-Smith’s book Turkish Delights and serves 4. (Half it if serving 2 people.) I used frozen NZ mussels Read More …
I had some NZ mussels on the half-shell in the freezer and was looking through my Thai cookbooks for a suitable recipe. I noticed that three books had an unlikely combination of mussels and pineapple with red curry paste, so I decided to give it a try. The version I made was mostly based on Read More …
I had 4 oz. of hot smoked salmon in the back of my refrigerator and used it to make rillettes based on a recipe in americastestkitchen.com. 4 oz. hot smoked salmon 1 Tbs. unsalted butter, softened 1 Tbs. sour cream 1 tsp. mustard 1.5 tsp. lemon juice 1 Tbs. finely chopped onion Freshly ground black Read More …
At the beach last week, we had steamed crabs to celebrate Carol’s birthday. There were a few leftover crabs, which Carol picked, and I turned the picked crabmeat into a paté by adapting a recipe in an Outer Banks cookbook I found in our unit. The photo shows a 1/3 recipe (about 1 cup), based Read More …
One of the dinners at the beach this year was fish tacos. This is how I made the fish for the tacos, which were popular. This was for 5 adults with some leftovers. 1.75 lb. mahi-mahi or similar firm white fish Flour Aleppo pepper Salt and pepper Milk Vegetable oil Flour tortillas Mexican grated cheese Read More …
This is a Mexican variation on Gambas al Ajillo, the classic Spanish shrimp with garlic sauce. The tequila in this is the clear (unaged) type. Here is how I made 2 servings, based on a recipe in 177MilkStreet. This is a quick dish, taking less than half an hour. I served it with steamed rice Read More …
A traditional way to preserve meat and seafood was to cook it and store it in containers (pots) protected from the bacteria and oxygen in the air by a layer of fat. England and Ireland have a number of traditional “potted” dishes, and potted shrimp is a classic. It makes a very nice appetizer or Read More …
This is a 2 servings adaptation of a recipe in the New York Times, which is very much like an American version of a Portuguese classic, Portuguese Clams (Ameijoas na Cataplana) . (The main difference is the addition of corn on the cob, which is a popular addition to summer-time seafood meals.) This is a Read More …
Paul Prudhomme popularized Blackened Redfish in the 1980s, which I had a few times back in the day, but then not recently. I spotted a recipe in the NYT and decided it would be a good dish for Lent. I made it with skate, which was very inexpensive and recommended by the fishman at Wegman’s. Read More …
This is a style of cooking fish in Sonora and Sinaloa which was adapted to home ovens in Pati Jinich’s book Treasures of the Mexican Table. The quantities below are sized for 2 persons. At Pati’s suggestion, we served the fish with corn tortillas as tacos. Carol thought it did not need the tortillas and Read More …