Salt to Taste Fish, wherever it comes from, will soothe and satisfy when everything else fails. The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. -Isak Dinesen When I read this the other day, it struck a quick note—of course, when toiling and tearing up have been exhausted, it’s time to look towards the calming waters. And maybe what lies within. Fresh water of the rivers, lakes, and ponds is totally welcome too. After all, fish, wherever it comes from, will soothe, satiate and satisfy when everything…
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Cracking the Code‒ Your Guide to Cooking Lobster
“Bon Appetit!” Julie in Julie and Julia readies to poach her first lobster, in a bid to cook the legendary Julia Child’s Lobster Thermidor. You don’t really need to read a guide for cooking lobster; you can easily watch the legendary Julia Child handle, cook and serve these live crustaceans ranging from a small chicken-sized kid to a 20-pound “Bertha Behemoth” on her classic The French Chef. The charmingly high-pitched Julia picks up a rustling creature with a firm, steady hand, the same way most of us would lift an…
Read MoreCracking the Code – Your Guide to Cooking Prawns
Hubba Bubba One of my favourite food quotes from the movies is not inspirational in the sense it’ll make you want to better your life this minute. Okay, actually, it does exactly that; it makes you want to get up and go do something—it’s so full of ideas packed into all of sixty two words. Here it is: “Anyway, like I was sayin’, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey’s uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan…
Read MoreMy Favourite Seafood Dishes – Part 2
And I’m back to complete this little series of my fav seafood dishes. Fish & Chips This one ranks high for many reasons – there is of course the whole childhood / mom / granddad connection to it but also it was the most often ordered thing at CCI after a swim during vacations. Fried Pomfret, club fries and tartar sauce or Dipys tomato ketchup… how wrong can it get right? I still, more often than not, use White or Silver Pomfret fillets for this dish. Yes people are using…
Read MoreMy Favourite Seafood Dishes – Part 1
That I love seafood seems pretty well established. Here are my some of favourite dishes with their recipes in no specific order of preference. Seafood Pizza Everyone loves pizza, that’s more or less a given. I do enjoy all types, will probably give the vegetarian ones a miss I guess except a well made Margherita pizza. But if I had to pick just one as my absolute favorite it’s going to have to be a seafood pizza. Squid rings, prawns, fish chunks, crab or lobster meat, the possibilities are endless.…
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