i hope you eat good food, grow beautiful things, and have more love than you know what to do with.
This past summer we spent a lot of time catching eel off the local docks, and what a boon it was! There’s so many delicious ways to use eel, including smoked and grilled Japanese style (Kabayaki) for sushi. It is probably my absolute favorite fish …
I forgot to post this the past summer—when we fished up a large Northern Kingfish (Menticirrhus saxatilis), also known sometimes as whiting or kingcroaker. It’s a relatively common fish we can catch here on the south shore of Long Island, and although most people catch …
Some years there are so many blowfish in the water you can’t catch anything else because they are voracious and will take any line with any bait at any time. Then there are years where they don’t show up at all, for whatever reason may …
This “dish” is usually what’s considered ”accidental” as in it’s a byproduct of cooking or braising fish, rendering a gelatinous broth that is cooled and solidified (although now there are places that make it specifically)—often done with eel but it can actually be made with …
This is less of a “recipe” and more of a discovered-a-traditional-way-of-eating-something-that-blew-my-mind. I always have bottarga/karasumi/wuyuzi which is the cured roe of mullet (a specialty of both Italy and Taiwan) in my fridge at any given time—it satisfies my cravings for something salty, briney, and full …
I haven’t had a chance to break out my bento boxes lately but decided to TREAT MYSELF today with blowfish tempura and soba. This style of soba, tenzaru, is eaten cold, with a small teacup or bowl of soba soy sauce (mentsuyu), and delicious and …
Next up on the blowfish series: Blowfish corn chowder with potato dumplings. Okay, so the only reason I made potato dumplings instead of straight potatoes in this chowder is because I’m really into low waste and had leftover mashed potatoes and tempura batter (which mixed …
I wasn’t kidding when I said it’s going to be a week of blowfish, but looking at the damage I realize it may be more like three days of blowfish as I evidently didn’t take into account that my children would blow through them as …
It’s a northern Atlantic blowfish (non-poisonous flesh but don’t eat the organs even though it’s tempting) year in the Great South Bay of Long Island! They come in large droves, in cycles of about every 3-5 years. This means… there’s not much else in the …
One of the places I always wanted to visit with the kids, but didn’t get to until last week, is the Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery and Aquarium. It used to supply the state with trout for stocking in public ponds, but became a not-for-profit …