Category: Blog
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Sweet and Savory Fig, Plum, Onion & Lettuce Salad – All in Pictures
Like a richly balanced symphony of sound, the sweet and savory ingredients in this salad bring out the best in complimentary flavors. The sweetness of fruit enhances the savoriness of lettuce and onions, and the savory does the same to the sweet. Here are the ingredients needed to make this sweet and savory salad. (NOTE:…
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Pasta with Sausage and Fresh Fig Sauce – All in Pictures
Pasta with sausage and fresh fig sauce: great stuff! Aside from its warmly robust sweet and savory flavor, the sausage and fig sauce can be made in the same time it takes just to cook pasta. Now, what if fresh figs aren’t on the market – or you don’t like them? No problem. Just substitute…
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Taking Fish Tacos From Simple to Exciting! – All in Pictures
Fish tacos: fantastically flavorful, easy to make, and just as easy to vary in flavor using either your choice or a combination of the “simple to exciting!” ingredients you see below – or whatever you want to suit your imagination and taste.
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Another Blessed Sunday – by Bill Fleming: In Pictures
I’ve laid down a couple fish recipes lately and have another that I’ll put up soon. But first, I got the fish/fishing story you see below from a darn good friend I served with in the Navy it seems like lifetimes ago. Bill Fleming was – and still is – the real deal as both a…
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Fish Tacos – Quick & Easy and All in Pictures
Last post showed how to cook a whole fish on the stove, which is a technique I just recently learned – and like very much for its terrific flavor and because it makes the most of the fish by reducing the loss of meat that takes place when fish is filleted (removed from the bone while the fish is…
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Stove Cooked Whole Fish with Fresh Vegetables – All in Pictures
Just a few weeks ago one of my sons and I went fishing for black sea bass out of Falmouth, Massachusetts. When we got back, I commented to our boat captain as he cleaned our catch about the amount of waste that went into filleting the fish. The boat captain the next slip down heard…
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Crisp Corn and Bell Pepper Salad – All in Pictures
Last two posts showed how to cook corn on the stove and in the microwave oven. Easy. Here’s a great way to combine the crisp sweetness of corn with bell pepper (I like using red, yellow, or orange bell pepper for this because they’re sweeter and more flavorful than green bell peppers), onion, garlic, and cilantro.…
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Microwave Cooked Corn on the Cob – Incredibly Easy, All in Pictures
Aside from being incredibly quick and easy, cooking corn in the microwave oven as shown in the picture book recipe you can get here is probably the best way both to maximize corn’s flavor and nutritional value as the corn cooks inside its own husk. Here’s what you need to cook corn on the cob in…
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Stove Cooked Corn on the Cob: Quick, Easy, and All in Pictures
Fresh, crisp corn on the cob; it’s a summer staple and very quick and easy to cook on the stove. Here’s all you need.