Menu ideas and recipes for pizza, linguiça, canned clams, tilefish, collards and kohlrabi Birthday pizza! My birthday fell on a Tuesday this year. Plain regular Tuesday. I was planning to work as usual but then thought, what the heck, this is the one day of the year that’s my day. I’ll take the day off. …
Menu ideas and recipes for flounder, swordfish, crudités, linguica, clams, pasta, blueberries and buttermilk. Flounder and swordfish If you’re not the kind of person who scarfs up all the crumbs from the bottom of a potato chip bag (ahem), then you can save them for potato chip flounder. Otherwise, do what I did and buy …
Tilefish and fish cakes My cooking week began with blueline tilefish. Before getting involved in a CSF (that stands for community supported fishery which is like a CSA share but with fish and shellfish), I hadn’t ever heard of tilefish. Tilefish is a mild, white, flaky fish found along the east coast. Its diet of …
A chunky clam dip recipe for your next party, potluck or game day—a better than average clam dip for sure. ~~~ Do you ever get a hankering for a fatty and salty bowl of dip and chips? Not a normal person’s portion of a bowl of dip and chips set out for everyone to enjoy, …
A bill in my home state of Massachusetts will make the quahog the state shellfish. What?! Did I hear a snicker out of you? Surely it’s because you don’t understand the magnificence of the quahog. And in case you’re wondering, it’s pronounced co-hog, not qwa-hog as a delusional Midwestern executive chef once tried to tell …
A New England clam chowder recipe that will become a favorite in your house — it is in mine! ~~~ Today is National New England Clam Chowder Day! I’m not taking the day off but I did start celebrating last night by making chowder for dinner. I’m from clam chowder country, Massachusetts, so it’s sort …
Tis the season for easy-to-make dishes for entertaining, or for hanging out and watching Christmas movies. It’s also the season for indulging in dishes that you normally wouldn’t — dishes made with either seasonal, expensive or high-fat high-calorie ingredients. I once made a huge Christmas Eve feast that started with Oysters Rockefeller and went on …
Do you have a repertoire of pastas that you return to again and again? Pastas that don’t require much brain effort? Pastas are my soul food. I may be Irish-Lithuanian but I think all those years growing up in southern Massachusetts amidst Italians, visits to the Italian bakery in my grandparents’ East Cambridge neighborhood, and …
A classic recipe that will warm your tummy on a frigid day — New England Clam Chowder. It even makes a good breakfast! ~~~ The cold weather put me in the mood this weekend for clam chowder. Somewhere I have a tried and true recipe. Somewhere. I found a recipe with potential on the Eating …
Grabbing the Gusto 