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Whole Baked Branzino with Hot Ginger, Scallion and Chili Oil
This is a very low maintenance dish. You bake the fish, having first sprinkled it with a little salt inside and out. When the fish comes...
Feb 11, 2021


Baked Mackerel with Celeriac, Watermelon Radish and Gala Apple Slaw
I love mackerel, and tend to enjoy it most when slathered with miso and char-grilled, or BBB-ed and served with soy sauce and grated...
Jan 21, 2021


⏰ Thai Flavor Haddock Fillets Cooked in Cabbage Leaves
Quite a pretty dish (check out before and after images of it here), really flavorful and -- despite my attempts at plating rather than...
Oct 30, 2020


⏰ Steamed Chili Salmon Tacos with Avocado-Tajin Crema
Or, to be completely accurate, Steamed Chili Salmon Tacos with Avocado-Tajin Crema, Pickled Garlic Scapes, Diced Heirloom Tomato,...
Oct 21, 2020


⏰ Triple Mustard Salmon and Cauliflower Purée with Walnut Oil
I am not a huge fan of cauliflower. As a child, I disliked the traditional British cauliflower-cheese that seemed to be the way this...
Sep 24, 2020


Bonus Recipe: Buttery Salmon with CSA Box Vegetables in a Spicy Tomato-Coconut Milk Sauce
Much easier to make than the mouthful of a title might lead you to believe. I got the spice level perfectly calibrated for my taste and I...
Sep 19, 2020


Shrimp and Yellow Rice Burritos
As well as being pretty darn good, these burritos were lovely because they were so colorful. They are also really easy to make. You can...
Sep 3, 2020


Halibut Loin In Fennel -Garlic Sauce
This was an exceedingly gratifying dish. It was so easy to make, but the flavors were complex and delicious. The Gremolata like topping...
Aug 27, 2020


Fresh Crab Dip with Old Bay and Tarragon
There is something to be said for that nice, decadent American recipe for crab dip -- bubbling away and full of cream cheese, but that...
Jul 28, 2020


Spaghetti with Red Clam Sauce
Admittedly I had it particularly easy because the fishmonger we use here on the Cape sells fresh clams daily -- shucked, chopped and...
Jul 14, 2020


Crispy Haddock Sandwiches with Yuzu Kosho Tartar Sauce and Asian Slaw
This dish, in my book, falls in the same category as fried clams or lobster rolls -- there is just something about all of them that feels...
Jul 9, 2020


⏰ Crab Meat Poha “Risotto” with Lemon
I have always loved the serendipity of hearing or reading about something for the first time, and then suddenly seeing it everywhere....
Jun 1, 2020


Pan Roasted Scallops with Yuzu Kosho Butter, Fresh Corn with Basil
I added snow peas to this because I had some left from the prior week's menu and, while they added a pop of color to the photo above,...
Mar 26, 2020


Spicy Cod Fillets with Coconut Milk Sauce
This is a much prettier dish than the photo would indicate - white fish, pale pink shallots and lemon yellow make it an ideal spring dish...
Mar 12, 2020


Whole Steamed Sea Bream with Ginger, Scallion and Kaffir Lime Leaves
This is one of the simplest ways to cook fish that I know, and yet one of the ways that most impresses guests. I think it is because...
Jan 20, 2020


Microwave Cod in Parchment with Dashi and Buttered Fall Vegetables
Despite a bit of butter, this recipe of mine is what Nigella Lawson refers to as "Temple Food" - soothing, healthy, easy on the digestive...
Dec 12, 2019


Buttery, Crispy Skinned, Spiced Steelhead Trout Filets
I had eaten trout plenty of times before this evening, but never steelhead trout. It was on sale this week so I pounced, and am now a...
Nov 21, 2019


Nobu's Miso Black Cod
Or it would have been a closer facsimile had I read the original recipe when writing my menu and realised that the fish was supposed to...
Oct 31, 2019


Prematurely Named Perch Kofta (Make This Dish For The Sauce)
I bought perch on sale a while ago and had some left in the freezer whose time, I felt, had come. I knew from the first time cooking it...
Sep 13, 2019


Linguine with Jumbo Lump Crab and Sage
This is a really simple main course which I served as part of a crab lovers crab dinner. The pasta takes 3 minutes to cook, during which...
Sep 1, 2019


Pan Fried Soft Shell Crabs with Avocado Tartare
Crab is one of my favorite things; budget and seasonality permitting, I would eat it every week if I could. But that is not the case so,...
Aug 31, 2019


⏰ Turmeric Salmon and Spicy Corn with Coconut
This is the perfect so-hot-you-could-cook-an-egg-on-the-pavement summer dinner. It is spicy and creamy, full of corn, coconut and fishy...
Jul 19, 2019


Healthy Turmeric Spiced Salmon Fillets (AKA 3-Minute Salmon)
I will definitely be making this fish again - it took 3 minutes, was healthy, tasted good and was really beautiful to look at. When I...
May 6, 2019


Grilled Shrimp with Spicy Red Pepper Dipping Sauce
This is a great appetizer or dish to serve when you are making a tapas style dinner at home. This is a non-recipe recipe: it is so simple...
May 5, 2019
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