Recipes: Fish

Asian Salmon Burger

April 30th, 2012

These burgers not only wind up amazing in taste, but are totally stunning with their bright array of colors.

This is elegant casual BBQing, perfect for mothers day dinner!

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Smoked Salmon Crostini

April 1st, 2012

Easy, fast, delicious and beautiful appetizers!

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Salmon Ceviche

January 8th, 2012

I am still trying to stick with my month of healthiness! So when we had friends over the other day, I decided to make a super fresh, delicious and low calorie appetizer- this Salmon Ceviche.

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Mustard Glazed Roast Salmon

July 11th, 2011

This mustard glazed salmon is simple, delicious and quintessentially Northwest. The sweet mustard glaze gives the salmon additional flavor and the grains of mustard add texture and crunch. A wonderful perk is that this takes almost no prep and just a few minutes of hands off cooking- nothing could be better for a weeknight or a dinner party!

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Parchment Baked Salmon

June 12th, 2011

I love baking fish in parchment paper. Besides being healthy, there is something so beautiful about all of the different flavors steaming and marrying together inside the pretty paper package. It is one of the easiest cooking methods I can think of, and it creates the most elegant dish out of simple ingredients.

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Salmon with Morel Mushrooms and Fiddlehead Ferns

June 1st, 2011

The weather has been so sad and grey and rainy for the last nine months, it was truly a gift to have the nice weather and to see some of the produce finally peeking its heads up. In fact I was kind of mesmerized by some of the beautiful produce that we are blessed with in the Pacific Northwest. I went stand to stand freaking out over the colors and flavors. It was like saying hi to an old friend that I hadn’t seen since last year!

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Beet Pasta with Crème Fraiche and Caviar

February 14th, 2011

Happy Valentines Day! This is an unusual pasta dish that totally fits the bill for dinner tonight. Sexy, exotic and beautiful. Oh yeah- and it tastes good.

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Saffron Poached Halibut

August 20th, 2010

Saffron Poached Halibut We had friends for dinner last night, and this was a halibut dish that I came up with for them. It has a beautiful orange color, and the saffron flavor really infuses the halibut in the poaching process. I topped the halibut with a beautiful carrot ribbon salad made with rainbow carrots…

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Sesame Glazed Roasted Salmon

August 13th, 2010

Sesame Glazed Roasted Salmon, serves 2 This is as easy as it gets in the Salmon department. It is fast and flavorful. Delicious served on a bed of fresh Asian Slaw (see 7/10). Sesame Glazed Roasted Salmon, serves 2-4 (depending how hungry you are!) 1 lb Salmon fillet Marinade: 1 clove garlic 1 Tbs brown…

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Nicoise Salad

July 22nd, 2010

Nicoise Salad (Reinvented) This was a request from my facebook fan page, and we enjoyed it for dinner last night. Traditional Nicoise Salad features raw vegetables, nicoise olives, tinned anchovies and Dijon vinagrette. The recipe below has the basics- lettuce, vegetables, olives and fish. But they are all updated versions! I used green leaf lettuce,…

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