By La Cuisinière | Menu Ideas , Seafood
Do you need a menu idea? We can’t resist taking on the big name magazines. Adapted from a recipe for sea bass found in Food and Wine magazine, last night’s fish dinner comes from the kitchen of our New Jersey home chef. A quick trip to the supermarket offered halibut but not sea bass. No […]
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Pan Fried Soft Shell Crab – Soft shell crab season has been very short this year. Shorter than usual. And soft shell crab is a food you eat while in season. For years, it has been a delicacy we all look forward to during the month of June. This year, availability was limited to high […]
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By La Cuisinière | Condiments & Relishes
Make Simple Tartar Sauce – You’ll find any number of ready-made Tartar Sauces including some the family really like (like the egg-based Sauce Tartare by Delouis Fils). When push comes to shove and seafood is on the menu, they ALL ask for the homemade variety of sauces such as my homemade aïoli or this tartar […]
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By La Cuisinière | Seafood
Best Shrimp Grits Ever! Seriously. This recipe for shrimp and grits is my version of a restaurant main dish we enjoyed while vacationing in Wrighstville Beach and the North Carolina Low Country. “Have you ever had Shrimp and Grits?” We lived in Asheville, North Carolina at the time and the question was constantly being asked […]
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