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Salmon, salsa, beans, and potatoes. 7/2/18

Finally found some decent salmon to buy to start in on our two pescatarian dinners this week. John used the America’s Test Kitchen technique for cooking the salmon which starts with a quick brine and continues with beginning the cooking … Continue reading

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Colorful dinner with new technique. 6/6/18

The other day we were watching a segment of America’s Test Kitchen and they had a technique for getting salmon cooked perfectly. First you brine the fish for 15 minutes. Then you start the cooking with the fish skin side … Continue reading

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Mediterranean fish soup. 4/27/18

We are leaving Utah on Sunday so it is time for some eat down. We have not made this dinner for a while but when I saw half of a fennel bulb and part of a bell pepper in the … Continue reading

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Fish soup – 6/24/17

While walking about Bergen, Norway we stopped at Bryggeloftet & Stuene for a bowl of fish soup. Shrimp, mussels, and salmon were in the soup and so perfectly cooked that I can only imagine that they dropped them in the … Continue reading

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On the road again, Part 2 – 2/20/17

We arrived in SG around 2PM on Sunday. We plan a dinner of burgers but after having a late lunch decide that we are too full to eat dinner. We have an English muffin with peanut butter instead. On Monday … Continue reading

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July 1, 2016 – Brain food and the Puzzle Contest

Every Friday the Wall Street Journal has a crossword puzzle contest. It’s a meta puzzle based on the solution to the puzzle. It’s always tricky and John and I usually work on it together. So what better food for our mental … Continue reading

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April 22, 2016 – Earth Day and Passover

Tonight, the night of the first Seder of Passover, we just had three of us, John, our daughter, and me. We are doing the family Seder on Sunday. We started with some chicken liver pate with cornichons and our main … Continue reading

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December 31, 2015 – Sous vide salmon

For Christmas I bought John an Anova sous vide machine, the portable kind. Our first attempt was pretty much a success. In the picture above the salmon with some olive oil and seasonings is sealed in a heavy duty ziplock … Continue reading

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October 19, 2015 – Salmon with new potatoes and snow peas

We buy some frozen sockeye salmon and sort through the uneven portions in the bag. We decide that John will have the larger ones and I will have the smaller ones. I make the tartar sauce that the Fish Market … Continue reading

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