During seasonal transitions like early spring, I find myself cooking warm comfort food and dreaming about summer food. There’s a great Italian rice salad that I sometimes make for a summer picnic, laced with tuna that’s been poached in oil (or good quality canned tuna in olive oil). It’s loaded with crunchy celery, abundant finely [...]
Archive for the ‘Fish’ Category
Waste Not Want Not: Baked Peppers with Tuna and Rice
Posted in Fish, Peppers, Tuna, Waste Not Want Not, tagged Tuna rice stuffed peppers, using leftover olive oil on April 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Baked White Fish with Spinach, Leeks and Mushrooms
Posted in Fish, Greens, Leeks, Mushrooms, tagged leeks and mushrooms, Springtime fish with spinach on April 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In early spring, the leeks and spinach from the farmers market are unbelievably sweet and delicious. The spinach has none of that slight taste of minerals that it will later have, and it’s available in abundance. Combined with local mushrooms and locally fished flounder, they made for a flavorful and healthy supper. I have been [...]
Dark Days 17: Monkfish on Braised Cabbage
Posted in Dark Days Challenge, Fish, tagged How to cook monkfish on March 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »
A continuing series on weekly meals that use sustainable, organic, local and ethical food during the challenging winter months. For more information, go here to the DDC section of Not Dabbling in Normal’s website: Dark Days Challenge. In which I make a celebratory birthday dinner with entirely local ingredients… For all of its humble ingredients, [...]
Dark Days 5: Sea Bass Stuffed with Tarragon-Braised Leeks
Posted in Dark Days Challenge, Fish, Leeks, Potatoes, Uncategorized on December 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A continuing series on weekly meals that use sustainable, organic, local and ethical food during the challenging winter months. For more information, go here to the DDC section of Not Dabbling in Normal’s website: Dark Days Challenge What a catch! When my husband came back from the shore with a couple of just-caught fish, I [...]
Tuna Confit
Posted in Fish, Preserving, tagged Tuna confit on December 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
When I found locally fished albacore tuna at the market, which is only an occasional occurrence, I picked up an extra piece to put away for another time. The first instinct in today’s refrigerator age is to pop it in the freezer (but at this time of year my freezer is so overstuffed that I [...]
Dark Days 4: Tuna and a Fennel Fest
Posted in Dark Days Challenge, Fennel, Fish, Preserving, tagged Using all parts of fennel on December 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A continuing series on weekly meals that use sustainable, organic, local and ethical food during the challenging winter months. For more information, go here to the DDC section of Not Dabbling in Normal’s website: Dark Days Challenge . For the 4th week of the Dark Days Challenge, I served locally fished albacore tuna baked in fennel [...]
Dark Days 2: Ginger-Scallion Fish with Chard and Butternut Squash
Posted in Dark Days Challenge, Fish, Greens, Winter squash, tagged Dark Days Challenge, Ginger-garlic paste, Local fish, Roasted squash seed oil on December 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A continuing series on weekly meals that use sustainable, organic, local and ethical food during the challenging winter months. After all of the turkey and other rich food of the past weeks, we were longing for the lightest, simplest yet tastiest supper. David Tanis, who writes a column in the New York Times called “City [...]
Fish Curry Sri Lankan Style
Posted in Fish, Stews, tagged Fresh fish curry on November 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Our local market recently had fresh albacore tuna from a fisherman whose boat, the Frances Anne, sails the Atlantic from Barnegat Light. This is close enough from here to be considered “local,” though of course the sea makes it anyone’s guess how far. Whenever I can, I purchase just-caught fish from day boat fisherman, and [...]
Dark Days Week 7: Fish Stew
Posted in Dark Days Challenge, Fish, Soup, tagged Dark Days Challenge, Fish and scallops stew on January 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
When I make fish chowder, serious “soup,” I typically start with a strong fish stock sweated down from the bones (or in the case of shellfish, the shells), doused with white wine, tossed with aromatic vegetables, hydrated with water and cooked gently. Our local sustainable-minded fishmonger is generous with his scraps, which he gives us [...]
Play With Your Food: It’s Halloween!
Posted in Fish, Pasta, tagged Halloween pasta, Squid ink pasta on October 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This pasta dish reminds me ever so slightly of those chocolate puddings sprinkled with crushed chocolate cookies and exuding gummy worms, which were clever devices for restaurants to make a lot of money from parents who wanted to placate kids so they could finish their dinners in some tacky “family” restaurant. Nightmares for soccer moms. [...]
