Seafood & Fish

My memories of savoring freshly prepared crab are very rustic and humble. I grew up on the East coast, where blue crab was plentiful. My mom would bring them home live from the market, and the lively critters would scamper in the paper bags, sometimes escaping. The sight of a crab scrabbling across our kitchen …

I’ve realized that I’m beginning to sound like a broken record. I should plant a vegetable garden. I should plant a vegetable garden. I should plant a vegetable garden. Over and over and over again. I did grow tomatoes once. Hated it. I think I bought the plant from Home Depot and all the flavor …

Once in a while, I am offered tantalizing recipes created by professional chefs, many of whom are well known from various restaurants, cookbooks, or even television. My general preference is to cook the recipe myself before I present it to you, but it can be challenging to do so for each one. This results in …

Everywhere I turn, I see these: Fresh and sweet, I find these English Peas irresistible. Maybe it’s because I only had them frozen growing up. Or maybe it’s because they’re just so darned cute. Either way, I feel as though I am finally paying peas the attention they deserve. When you find English peas fresh …

There are times when I feel the need to backtrack. It happens to the best of us, sometimes more often than we would like to admit. It happened recently, on this blog. Two Sundays ago, I published a post on grilling fish wrapped in prosciutto. My choice of fish? Monkfish. The monkfish was freshly delivered to …