Fish Wednesday: Tuscan Style Tuna Edition

My pal S – she lives in Tuscany – is a fine cook. One year, I was at her place in Maremma for a birthday feast and wow, did we eat some seafood. She lives not far from Porto Ercole so we all squeezed into someone’s car and headed down to have Italian style cocoa …


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Fish Wednesday, Tuna Melt Edition

Even though we live in the seafood paradise of the Pacific Northwest we are not snobs ’round here, no sir. Plus, with bad news coming from the salmon streams, we may find ourselves seeking cheap, sustainable alternatives long before we thought we’d have to. It was just yesterday that I found myself paying a little …


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Fish Wednesday, Monday Pad Thai Edition

I didn’t forget, you know, I’ve just been at loose ends since we got back from the other side of the planet. And yes, I know, it’s been a while, but I was stuck in kitchen reruns and lethargy. My taste buds have been resurfaced by the complicated flavors of Southeast Asia and I am …


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Fish Wednesday: Fish Talk Edition

“Do you have any questions?” he says to me, and yeah, actually, I do. I’ve asked the nice gal that works at Seattle Fish Company about the Chilean sea bass before and she assured me it was sustainable, but I couldn’t bring myself to buy it. So I ask again.

We get to talking, the fish guy and I, and he introduces himself. His name is Paul and he owns the market. I tell him how I’ve been writing about fish, shopping for and eating fish, for a while now. About my homework around buying fish for my plate, how I’ve talked to the conservation guys at the aquariums and oh, yeah, now I remember, I talked to the fancy organic market buyers too. Paul asks me when I’ve last had Chilean sea bass and honestly, I can’t remember. “Today might be the day, ” he says.


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Fish Wednesday: Back in the Kitchen Again!

Seems like it’s been a while since we’ve had Fish Wednesday at home. Bogged down in both a stressful day job and the desire to be a better educated eater, Fish Wednesday has been shelved, migrated, folded, spindled, and mutilated. But not this week! This week, I reclaimed Fish Wednesday in my Seattle kitchen. Shopping …


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From the Archives: Fish Wednesday: Fish are friends, not food edition

If you’ve not seen Finding Nemo, you don’t know the hilarious scene where the sharks get together for something akin to Seafood Eaters Anonymous. “I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine. If I am to change this image, I must first change myself. Fish are friends, not food,” they state, with great earnestness. It all comes apart because, duh, they’re sharks, hello.

Fast forward to Fish Wednesday. Readers of this blog will know that Fish Wednesday happens pretty regularly around here, if not quite weekly. About a month ago, I started wondering where my fish was coming from. I get my veggies from a CSA, why was I getting my fish from the Safeway? Was there a better way to buy fish and did it matter where it came from?

Neon Fish


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