Pop quiz, hot shot. You’ve got eight liters of freshly-picked strawberries and a lazy Sunday afternoon. What do you do?
Why, make salmon, of course!
…whut?
No, really! This month’s Foodtv.ca cooking club is making Smoked Salmon with Strawberry Salsa. I knew that we were going strawberry picking, so I decided
this would be a perfect dish to use [...]
The incredible summer heat is starting to settle onto Winnipeg, so I’ve been looking for some quick, no-cook recipes that won’t make the house hotter than it already is. (That’s the downside of having a boiler for a furnace: central air is out of the question.)
I found this great recipe from Real Simple, and [...]
The shrimp I bought on sale a while ago was getting freezer burned. What to do?
This was an “open up the fridge” meal: starting with one key ingredient (the shrimp), I just started assembling things that sounded like they would go well together. This time, it was a great success! I’ll need to remember this [...]
What an odd coincidence; I found an article today that combined my points from two recent posts: Chinese Food Imports Under Microscope and DNA Test that Sushi!
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that two consumers were hospitalized after eating pufferfish that was mislabelled as monkfish. The fish was imported from China.
Pufferfish is also known as fugu. [...]
We had dinner at the Sushi Train last night. While we were eating, I was thinking about an article I read recently. The Chicago Sun Times did DNA testing on red snapper at 14 different restaurants around Chicago. None of them - not one - was really red snapper. Most of them were tilapia, while [...]
I’ve generally steered away from cooking seafood. I’ve made salmon and tuna and shrimp, etc etc… But it always scares me. I’m not sure why, but it just seems like seafood is really easy to mess up. I’m not sure where this fear came from, but there it is.
(In light of our trying to “eat [...]
