A Sustainable Seafood Summer in Seattle - 75 recipes in 97 days
Share Tweet One of my favorite restaurants in Seattle is Poppy, so I was excited to see that owner/Chef Jerry Traunfeld gave in to Becky’s “begging” to contribute a recipe to Good Fish. Â After all, he has had significant influence on Becky as a chef, including their three years together at The Herbfarm, and [...]
Share Tweet Today’s recipe really highlights the importance of “mise en place” which is simply having all your ingredients prepped before you begin cooking. Â This is especially important if you are having guests for dinner and expect to actually visit with them instead of slaving over a hot wok! The prep and assembly of ingredients [...]
Share Tweet Alright, I finally give up! Â I’m waiving the white flag over finding any Arctic Char in the greater Seattle area. In Good Fish, Becky explains that there was a 2009 landslide at one of the largest arctic char farms (Washington’s Cascade Aqua Farms) that affected the availability of local sourced arctic char, but [...]
Share Tweet Warning – today’s post may be hazardous to your health…food addicts beware! I had the pleasure of assisting Becky with a couple cooking classes when she made Grilled Spot Prawns with “Crack Salad” (pg 73) and the response was universal – total addiction! Â As she says, EVERYONE loves this dish and even as [...]
Share Tweet I do not like chilled, creamy soups. Nor do I like raw cucumbers. Â Fussy one, I am… Having said that, Becky has totally converted me on both counts with her Chilled Cucumber-Coconut Soup with Dungeness Crab (pg 55). Â It’s a medium-level difficulty (#3) but I found it fairly easy to pull together – [...]
Karen Rosenzweig cooked all 75 recipes from "Good Fish" in the 97 days between Memorial Day and Labor Day AND blogged about it here daily!
The book that inspired this project - Good Fish by Becky Selengut. Read more about the book by clicking the menu tab "the inspiration" above
Yes, I did finish cooking all 75 recipes by 6pm PT on Labor Day (9/5/11)!!! Stay tuned for a few review and wrapup articles in September - sincere thanks to all who have been faithfully reading along!