From the category archives:

Seafood

Boiled Shrimp and Cocktail Sauce

August 2, 2010
Southern-Style Boiled Shrimp with Cocktail Sauce

By the time you read this, I should be in the air somewhere between Tortola and Greensboro, North Carolina.  I’m going home to spend some time with my folks and pick up Audrey from camp.  I’m not sure when I’ll next have internet access so I’m experimenting with the advance scheduling feature on my site.  Here’s hoping it works!

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Make Your Own Bottarga

June 29, 2010
Spaghetti with Bottarga

Waste not want not, or so they say.  Working on the assumption that there’s a lot of truth in that old chestnut, we’ve almost worked our way through an entire twenty pound mahi mahi.  We’ve had seared mahi mahi with green seasoning, mahi mahi and coconut curry, soy-glazed mahi mahi, mahi mahi in a creole sauce, and fish head curry.  The [...]

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Bourdain, Bones and a Fish Head Curry

June 16, 2010
Fish Head Curry

I’ve always had a thing for the bad boys.  You know the type - mad, bad, dangerous to know.  I like a man who works hard and plays harder.  I’m not afraid of dirty fingernails or a dirty mind.  A man who can’t curse is no man at all.  Of course, under the bad boy exterior, I do expect [...]

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Quick and Easy Shrimp

October 1, 2009
Quick and Easy Shrimp

I always like to have a few dishes like this shrimp in coconut oil in my repertoire.  Quick, easy, delicious, pretty.  And made from pantry ingredients I always have on hand.  Or almost always.  We’re rarely without a bag of shrimp in the freezer.  Who doesn’t have black pepper?  And the curry plant in our garden reproduces with rabbit-like speed.  Anyone need a curry [...]

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Pretty on the Outside

April 26, 2009
Caribbean Conch

A conch shell is a beautiful thing.  Those of us who live here all have a collection and the tourists will pay rather astounding amounts of money for a good-looking specimen.  The invertabrate inside is, however, not so attractive.

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Fish Curry from Kerala

April 18, 2009
Fish Curry from Kerala

Every once in a while we have to let Bones step out of the office and into the kitchen.  Indian food is his speciality and the food of the southern state of Kerala is a particular favorite.  The flavors tend to be brighter and cleaner than the food of northern India.  Kerala is at about the same tropical latitude as [...]

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Roasted Red Snapper

April 15, 2009
Roasted Red Snapper

I’ve always been a bit afraid of cooking fish.  I love to eat it, but the preparation and cooking is something I find intimidating.  What if I overcook it…what if I have to scale it…what if, god forbid, I have to clean it myself?

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