fish & shellfish

mustard sauce masala over black cod

September 3, 2010

Last weekend was Callie’s last spent with us. She’s now back to work in Charlottesville. She and Elizabeth were marvelous guests, and we hope that they’ll return soon. I enjoy have guests from out of town every now and then. This way, we can see San Francisco through tourist-eyes and often we’ll do things that [...]

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mole rojo clasico with shrimp

August 19, 2010

This post comes from our first-time guest blogger, Ernestina C. This mole was simply incredible! Thanks for the great post and we hope you write again soon! Ernestina made this mole sauce from scratch over a weekend a few weeks back. She knows that we’re pescetarian at WC headquarters so set aside a jar of [...]

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tuna rottele pasta Niçoise

July 27, 2010

This salad is a take on Niçoise salad. I bought an expensive jar of tuna chunks packed in extra virgin olive oil and herbs the other day at “whole paycheck” in our hood. At home we had beautiful fresh organic heirloom carrots (Nantes, maybe?), French green beans, Dijon mustard you get the picture right? So [...]

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warm white bean frisée salad with grilled calamari

May 24, 2010

Delfina is my favorite restaurant in San Francisco. I really love other places, like The Slanted Door and Gary Danko, but to me Delfina reigns supreme. They make Italian food with a California influence, or perhaps it’s vice-versa? We’ve been going there for years now to celebrate special occasions. The reason we enjoy Delfina sparingly [...]

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cold cured gravlax

May 17, 2010

I made my very first gravlax! Last week I got into a long conversation with my Michigan friend, J, about the popularity of cured fish in that state. Apparently everyone has their own family recipe for making cured fish there, often handed down form generation to generation. We don’t have that in my family. I [...]

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moqueca capixaba

April 9, 2010

I’ve already been feeling a bit homesick for Brazil, being back from my vacation there for little over a month so I decided to make moqueca capixaba, a traditional “fish stew,” to cheer myself up. It’s always popular, both here and back in Brazil. I put the dish together for a dinner party recently with [...]

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shrimp pirão

March 15, 2010

Pirão is a savory porridge very popular in Brazilian cooking. It’s made with untoasted manioc flour, also called cassava or yucca flour. In San Francisco you can find it in the Misson district at Latino food markets. I got mine there. We ate pirão several times while in Brazil last month. It’s often served with [...]

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soba noodles with pan grilled tuna and nori kizami

March 11, 2010

I love soba noodles. Last Saturday while looking at the stuff that I had stashed away in the pantry, I noticed a big package of soba that I bought a while ago at the Sunset Super and promptly forgot about. Earlier that same rainy day, we had been to Sun Fat fish market, but, oddly, [...]

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arroz de bacalhau com brocolis AKA salt cod & broccoli flavored rice

February 26, 2010

I got the idea for this dish from this wonderful arroz de bacalhau we had in the company of our dear friends, Luiz and Sávio, at a beach kiosk in Vitória while we were visiting back in early February. There the dish was served in those stunning and very authentic dark clay pots from Paneleiras [...]

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edible fish bones

January 22, 2010

My father was a great fresh water fisherman. I remember when I was a kid seeing him escaping into the solitude of the forest early in the morning or late in the afternoon for his fishing/hunting trips. He did that for a hobby and the family got to eat those delicious fresh fish from the [...]

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