Plantation Shrimp with Bok Choy and Shiitake Mushrooms

This is my last recipe from my shopping trip at the Buford Highway Farmer’s Market- it produced a lot of meals.  I lucked out with the
recipes I chose to make and this one was as good as the others.  It has a lot of my favorite things- cabbage, mushrooms and shrimp and is South Beach [...]

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Scallop, Asparagus, Tomato and Mushroom Pasta

Bay scallops (the small guys which are cheaper than sea scallops and taste better anyway, in my opinion) were on sale the other day,
so I picked up about a pound of them.  I wanted to try to make a great dish I’d had at a little Italian restaurant called Rosal’s in Chicago’s Little Italy with [...]

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Pan-seared Salmon and French Lentil Ragout

I’ve been meaning to make this dish for a while because I love lentils and salmon, it’s so South Beach Diet and I have some leftover green
lentils kicking around from making this dish.  This would be a great make-ahead dinner because the lentils improved in flavor overnight, and you could just quickly assemble a salad [...]

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Bermuda Fish Chowder

This is a very, very liberal adaptation of a recipe I found on epicurious.com.  When I saw it, I thought the ingredients looked great- a
sofrito, pepper sauce, dark rum and lots of seafood.  But when I went to make it I noticed it called for cooking the fish and shellfish for long periods of time…something [...]

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Thai Tilapia

Where to start?  I cooked a lot this weekend and have a lot to share this week.  First up us a really simple Thai-style tilapia, which comes
together in just a few minutes.  It has the typical sweet, salty, sour and spicy taste of Thai food and goes great with jasmine rice to soak up the [...]

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Asian Tuna Tartare

How often can you call an hors d’oeuvre on a potato chip fancy?  I guess it depends on what you put on the chip.  This Food & Wine recipe for Asian tuna tartare is delicious and really impressive, and great for an appetizer or cocktail party.  One word of caution- the potato chips do get [...]

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Mexican Chopped Salad with Honey Lime Dressing

I’ll go ahead and get it out of the way- there’s going to be a dry spell around here for the next 2 weeks.  I’m going out of town for work
and have been working some late hours, so there hasn’t been too much notable cooking going on.  However, I do have this one good recipe [...]

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Smoked Salmon, Goat Cheese and Spinach Salad

One of the most memorable dishes we had in Spain was a salad of spinach, smoked salmon, goat cheese and pomegranate seeds.  It was sweet, savory and tangy all at the same time.  When I made this for Mother’s Day, I was not willing to pay $6.00 for a handful of pomegranate seeds, so the [...]

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Seafood Paella

In anticipation of our trip to Spain, and the fact that Greg’s sister was in town, I made a seafood paella that was perfect for our 70 degree weekend here.  It was beautiful, but alas, no picture.  Now that the time change has happened, I vow to take more pictures of the food I make [...]

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Goan-Style Shrimp and Vegetable Curry

I found this recipe on another blog and thought it sounded like a good second attempt into Indian food with meat.  I typically make vegetarian Indian recipes, but I’m a sucker for curry and coconut milk.  This ended up being a beautiful dish with a fiery red curry sauce- fiery in color, not heat.  This [...]

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