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Miso Maple Salmon à la Nobu

miso maple salmon a la nobu on a plate with potatoes and tomatoes.

Here’s Nobu’s world famous miso black cod dish, reverse-engineered and simplified for home cooks as miso maple salmon. Nobu Matsuhisa is among the world’s most famous chefs. He specializes in Japanese food with a Peruvian twist and operates more than 50 Nobu restaurants around the globe, each of which serves his most celebrated dish: miso […]

Brown Butter Smoked Fish Recipe

brown butter smoked fish.

Making delicious smoke-kissed fish on the grill has never been easier thanks to this technique. The “Smoke Catcher” as I call it, is a method of fast-smoking thin fish filets and bivalves on a grill. You place about 4 ounces of wood chips, pellets, sawdust, or dried herbs directly on flames or hot metal so […]

Provençal Smoked Fish Paté Recipe

Provencal smoked fish spread in a bowl alongside olives and stuffed grape leaves.

Smoked fish paté? Think tuna salad from France on steroids. You can serve this like a dip for chips, a spread for crackers or toast points, make a sandwich with a tomato and melted cheese, plop it on top of a green salad, mix it with elbow pasta, rollups, serve accompanied by a platter of […]

Quick Simple Dry Brined Hot Smoked Fish Recipe

smoked sable fish.

That’s sable (a.k.a. black cod) in the photo, but this dry brined hot smoked fish recipe works with salmon and just about any fish. Simply dry brine (lightly salt) the fish before cooking. It’s similar to soaking the fish in salt water (wet brining), but without the water. Click here for a classic wet brined […]

Smoked Fish Dip Recipe

smoked fish dip.

This smoked fish dip recipe makes for a most hospitable way to start a dinner party. Serve it on crackers, toasted slices of baguette or bagel, bagel chips, crackers, matzoh, potato chips, or carrot and celery sticks. Or use it to make the best fish salad sandwich ever. You can find smoked fish locally or […]

A Smoked Fish Road Trip to the Great Lakes

Meathead holding a smoked chub

I tasted some of the best smoked fish of my life on the West Coast of Michigan—and this is coming from a guy who grew up on smoked fish in Florida. The Leelanau Peninsula juts into Lake Michigan on the west coast of Michigan, just north of Traverse City. The Peninsula is home to several […]

Brown Butter Smoked Fish Recipe

Smoked fish plated with a brown butter sauce topped with chives and purples flowers.

Finding the right balance of smoke when cooking fish on the grill can be a challenge but this technique, called “the smoke catcher,” makes it quick and simple for this brown butter smoked fish recipe.

Griddle Grilled Crab Cakes Recipe

Griddle grilled crab cake topped with aioli.

Jumbo lump crab meat shines brightly in this recipe for griddle grilled crab cakes with rosemary aioli. Exceptional crab cakes begin with high quality crab, gently blended with a minimum amount of other ingredients so that the crab remains the star of the show, then finished on the grill.

Get A Taste Of Japan With This Whole Sea Bass Grilled In Wasabi Crust

grilled sea bass in wasabi crust

Whole fish grilled over an open flame develops a crackled skin but stays nice and moist inside. Unfortunately, the increasing popularity of fish has not translated into greater availability of whole fish. Almost everything you see is already filleted. It’s a shame because the flesh of fish cooked whole on the bone tastes juicier. If […]

Easy Foil Packet Shrimp Boil For A Backyard Beach Feast

Shrimp boil with potatoes and corn on newspaper.

This mouthwatering grilled shrimp boil recipe is an effortless family style feast for your backyard cookout. There’s something truly engaging about diving into a steaming hot peel-and-eat shrimp boil, fingers dripping with spicy juices as you devour the tender shrimp, potatoes, sausage, and corn, all done on the grill.

Easy Tempura Beer Batter Recipe

Platter filled with tempura battered fried vegetables.

Tempura batter is light, lacy, and ultra crispy. It is ideal for deep frying vegetables and seafood. In this recipe, the bubbles from beer or club soda help achieve the right texture.

Griddle Up Shrimp And Cheesy Polenta Cakes

Griddle Up Shrimp And Cheesy Polenta Cakes

Shrimp and corn are a match made in heaven. Instead of the usual shrimp and grits, enjoy the combination in this recipe for Griddle Grilled Shrimp with Cheesy Polenta Cakes. A white wine griddle sauce takes this recipe up a notch.