i hope you eat good food, grow beautiful things, and have more love than you know what to do with.
Salmon Ochazuke (rice steeped in tea and dashi) is my oldest daughter’s favorite style of ochazuke—it has several of the things she loves: Salmon, ikura (salted salmon roe), seaweed, and rice. It’s one of my favorites too as it’s a breeze to put together and …
The holidays are around the corner and while this year it looks like we’re not going anywhere or hosting anything, I still enjoy creating spreads as if I were. This deviled egg recipe is very simple, using a normal deviled egg base but elevated to …
Now that things have settled down a little in my life for this moment in time (including the terrifying ordeal of getting the dojo inspected for NYS COVID compliance), my creative juices are flowing so I decided to make a simple, but elegant pasta dish …
Every year, during the course of my crabbing adventures I catch a few soft shelled crabs. When that happens, I start thinking about what deliciousness I can make with them. Soft shelled crabs are crabs that have just molted from their shells and their new …
A cascade of blue claws this year has me cleaning and freezing them around the clock (I remove the stomach before freezing and scrub, so that they don’t have a fishy flavor due to crabs being scavengers.) Nanbanzuke is an easy Japanese side dish most …
I can be very extra with my food, and this is one such case. This morning me and the family went down to the docks, expecting to come away with maybe a couple crabs and some fish. Instead, we ended up pulling up two and …
As we get further into blue claw season in Long Island, I am busy making tasty things with them. This lemon crab pasta is really easy to make, and the splash of cream at the end gives this a delicious richness that is difficult to …
The name of this dish is actually Squid Ink Risotto with Lemon Garlic Shrimp, Pepper Slices fried in Bacon Fat, and Shaved Bottarga (Cured Mullet Roe) but that would have been too long for the title. I was going through my fridge as I am …
This is a fun recipe that can be modified to your taste. Seafood dynamite is usually some sort of baked seafood dish with mayo, the creaminess of the mayonnaise making it a decadent treat. You can often find it in the appetizer section of a …
Today is the one day this week where we’ll be having warm and non-rain-y weather so my husband and I packed up the children and decided to go fishing. After all, if we didn’t get out soon, the great Coronatine of 2020 would have us …