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Confession time: I used to really hate cooking fish. I’d often come home with some beautiful filet, pan fry it with a bit of olive oil and maybe butter, only to dig in and find I’d seriously misjudged the doneness before taking it out of the pan. Nothing worse! It’s kind of embarrassing to admit [...]
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Time for a little confession that I think every attached woman can relate to, even just a little bit. Ready for this one? I secretly love it when Joe is gone from the house. Now, we’re not talking about extended periods of time here. I would miss him too much. What I’m talking about are [...]
Filed under: Appetizers, Fish/Seafood, Food, Recipes | Tagged: moules, mussel recipe, mussels, Recipes for seafood, steamed shellfish | 1 Comment »
You might recall from a few posts ago that I recently became the proud new owner of the Back to Basics cookbook by Ina Garten. I think Ina’s style and approach to cooking mirror my own, so I was curious to see what this book could offer. Flipping through, one of the recipes that caught [...]
Filed under: Fish/Seafood, Food, French, Recipes | Tagged: baked fish, fish recipes, Food Network, Ina Garten, mustard sauce | 5 Comments »
The wonderful thing about this time of year is that there really isn’t a lot of cooking to do. Beautiful fruits and vegetables abound at the market, and the produce is bursting with such flavor that none of it requires much dressing up to make a satisfying dinner. My friend Lesley over at Five O’Clock [...]
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Welcome to MacGyver Me This, what I hope will be an at least bi-weekly Thursday feature here at VMAC + Cheese! With the fun (and — if you don’t mind my patting myself on the back — success) I had with Susannah’s empty pantry dinner in our inaugural MMT post, I couldn’t wait to do [...]
Filed under: Fish/Seafood, Food, MacGyver Me This, Main Courses, Recipes, Sauces | Tagged: sauces, seafood recipes, tilapia recipe | 2 Comments »
I really love grapefruit. I really don’t love fennel. Who knew that when you put the two together, you’d get something revelatory? They’re an odd pair, to be sure, but I think my respective love and loathing of each ingredient is even odder. I mean, grapefruit is a really polarizing fruit. Bitter, tart and powerful, [...]
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