Occasionally, we take a break from salmon for our Friday Fish. The alternatives are either cod or tuna as mon mari does not like fish with bones. Sometimes I just buy him fish sticks (fish fingers). As an aside: both of those names for breaded, frozen, chopped fish are a bit nonsensical, but who am I to quibble over names? Back to the recipe…. I love tuna; he accepts it. … Continue reading →
When we lived in the U.S. we had a gas grill and mon mari did all of the summer cooking on it. A few years before we left he added a charcoal smoker. We loved the smoker so much that, when we were packing up all of our worldly goods to move across the pond we bought another one. We didn’t want to risk having a well-used and smelly smoker … Continue reading →
I live with a conundrum… aka mon mari. He maintains that he doesn’t like fish. He continually refers to Friday as ‘Fish H*ll Day’. Yes, we eat fish on Friday. No, it has nothing to do with our Catholic school upbringing. It’s because I like to cook fish on the day I buy it. I do the shopping once a week. Ergo, Friday is Fish Day. Well, prior to the pandemic … Continue reading →
Over the course of the next 10 years or so, I’ll be converting the older recipes to the new format. I’ll be doing my favorites first. I have always loved scallops, but they are a rare treat for us as they are expensive. It’s also one of the few fish / seafood that I buy frozen. I don’t often see scallops at the fish counter and when I do they … Continue reading →
We all know mon mari‘s opinion of fish for dinner. Or should we say his professed opinion. Maybe it’s because I insist on having it every Friday and he’s just acquiesced, or maybe he’s actually starting to like fish. BTW – we don’t eat it on Friday for any latent religious reasons. That’s the day I do the shopping and I prefer to buy and cook fresh fish. The key … Continue reading →
Barbecued Salmon? Why not? The hoisin sauce, sherry and soy sauce make a nice counterpoint to the salmon’s richness. If you don’t have hoisin sauce you can use another purchased barbecue sauce, or regular ketchup. If using ketchup I would add a dash of Worcestershire sauce. We grill a lot of salmon in the summer and I try to vary the style. The sauce would work on salmon steaks or … Continue reading →
There was beautiful tuna at the fish counter the other day. Coincidentally, mon mari was complaining that I rarely buy fish other than salmon. The reason that I always buy salmon is that, as he doesn’t like fish in general, salmon is the fish that he dislikes the least. (He actually likes it but don’t tell him I told you.) So I bought some tuna. I love tuna – raw, … Continue reading →
