Daily Unadventures in Cooking

A simple broiled salmon recipe with spinach and feta which takes less that fifteen minutes. The salty feta and spinach is balanced well with the strong flavours of the salmon and the freshness of the lemon.

Shrimp sauteed in garlic butter is really easy to make and guaranteed to please a crowd. When my local fisherman showed up again I knew I wanted to do another simple shrimp preparation to enhance the delicate sweet flavour of the fresh seafood.

Fall is lovely but it can bring on really heavy stewy dishes. If you need a break try this light salmon dish using the currently in season leeks. Leeks are lovely and underrated. They turn really sweet when sauteed and are a nice contrast in texture to the crispy salmon.

Fennel and orange is a classic combination, which until now, I never had the opportunity to try. When I saw more beautiful fresh fennel at the farmers market I knew it was time. Frequently, the combination is raw fennel and raw oranges in a salad. However, because I much prefer fennel cooked [...]

Shrimp with white wine and garlic is always a popular combination, but when you add in the local tomatoes and baby leeks it brings a beautiful sweetness to this classic dish.

This recipe was originally published in late May 2007 and is a repost from the archives. I will be back next week with some all new recipes. Thanks!
I have never successfully grilled fish before. So I am seeing this as a bit of a mini victory and the first strike against the evil [...]

We love our fresh Dungeness crab here on the west coast. At the cabin, we have a fish monger on a boat in the harbor on summer Saturdays, and we take advantage as much as possible by buying the live crabs in the morning and having them for dinner that night. We always, at least [...]

Scroll down for the recipe – a simple marinade to enhance the natural flavour of shrimp or prawns, but first an open letter to the fisherman I bought mine seafood from.
Dear Mr. Fisherman
Please accept my apologies, when I bought these prawns off your boat I was skeptical about what I was buying. I [...]

When I walked into the grocery store on Friday I was thinking about making shrimp from an Ezra Pound Cake recipe. However, the fish counter had Rockfish on special, like a really cheap special. It is local and I had never made it before so I was quickly sold. Apparently Rockfish is also [...]

The salty feta is such a great contrast to the sweetness of the shrimp in this tomato based pasta recipe.

If you haven’t tried Sablefish (aka Black Cod), I highly suggest you try it the next time you see it on a menu. It is a rich, buttery fish that is unlike any other I have tried. I know it is native to the pacific northwest but I am sure it is available elsewhere. [...]

I’m back! This weekend was a whirlwind but I think I am finally going to be able to start posting again. Yesterday we delivered the project I have been working on for the last few months and work will finally be going back to normal until after Christmas. I just can’t seem [...]

This is what you should make if you find a piece of salmon in the back of your fridge that you didn’t label and are not so sure about. It is sad and past it’s sashimi prime but you don’t want to throw it away so disguise that sucker in some soup and it will [...]

Just a quick post of tonight’s dinner since I am in the middle of watching the Heroes premiere. (Did they SERIOUSLY have an hour countdown show? Seriously? Obviously we didn’t watch it but still.) Tonight’s dinner was planned in that I knew what I was going to make this morning [...]

Yeah you heard me. Continuing my healthy kick I was inspired by a tilapia in parchment recipe made over at KathEats and her use of her stapler to make it. I don’t know how I went so long without cooking this sort of a meal. I think one of the first things I ever [...]

My vacation is over. As crushing as that is at least I have had some good fun during it. We even got up early (well this morning to go for a hike before we had to leave the island. A perfect way to end our vacation.
As I have to go back to work [...]

Yesterday was a near perfect day. So simple but oh so good. In the morning we went to the local farmers market and picked up some tomatoes, beets, squash and fennel as well as some local short ribs and a beef roast. Then we lunched in the sun with beers and burgers. After [...]

More of what happens when you must defrost your freezer. This isn’t exactly a Fall\Winter meal but it will do in a pinch and it worked out quite well as a nice simple quick way to prepare halibut. The fresh oregano was lovely and really made a difference – however I bet a lot [...]

Cooking with fermented black beans has been on my list some time while and I have finally gotten around to it. My roommate in university used to make a black bean chicken that had real potential so I have been hoping to relive it a bit. I was able to find the [...]

I am extremely lucky because J went on a very manly fishing trip with his family the other weekend and our freezer is now stocked with all manor of wild salmon and halibut. So this is my first, no doubt of many, preparations of salmon. I actually did this with a white spring [...]