Seafood

Green Chile Crab Cakes with Tomatillo Salsa

March 20, 2011
Green Chile Crab Cakes with Tomatillo Salsa

Tara of Smells Like Home chose this week’s Project Pastry Queen Challenge, Green Chile Crab Cakes with Tomatillo Salsa. We love crab cakes. Our favorite way to make them is crusted with pecans and topped with basil aioli. We’ve deviated a few times and we’re not usually impressed enough to make a permanent change. Not [...]

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Filet Oscar Crostini

February 18, 2011
Filet Oscar Crostini

When people ask me which recipe from the blog is our favorite, we don’t really have to think about it. The one dish that I think everyone in the world should try once is Filet Oscar: filet (or tenderloin steak) topped with crab meat, asparagus tips, and Bearnaise sauce. It sounds fancy but each component [...]

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Pink Corn Blini with Crab and Avocado Crema

February 2, 2011
Blue (Pink) Corn Blini with Crab and Avocado Crema

Today we are celebrating! Our friend Annie, the Sugar Cookie Decorator Extraordinaire behind Annie’s Eats, will soon be welcoming a sweet new addition to her family. A sweet new pink addition! So what better way to celebrate, when we’re all spread out every which way, than a virtual baby shower!

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Crab Cakes with Spicy Avocado Sauce

July 14, 2010
Crab Cakes with Spicy Avocado Sauce

The seafood counter at my grocery store makes a killer Maryland crab cake. I just happened to walk by as they were setting up the demo area to showcase on-sale crab. I could buy crab… or I could just buy the crab cakes they were making fresh right in front of me, behind the seafood [...]

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Scallops with Sun Dried Tomatoes and Goat Cheese Orzotto

May 26, 2010
Scallops with Sun Dried Tomatoes and Goat Cheese Orzotto

My very, very favorite way to prepare scallops is to wrap them in bacon and serve with a blackberry-port sauce, a la Peabody. As a matter of fact, it’s the only way I’ve made scallops in the last two years. We make our own port so it’s always fun to work a bottle of our [...]

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Grouper with Garlic-Lemon Butter Sauce

March 21, 2010
Grouper with Garlic-Lemon Butter Sauce

I love daylight savings – it’s still daylight at supper time! With a 7 week old, I don’t even miss that hour of sleep. With a 7 week old, I also don’t have loads of free time to hang out and play in the kitchen. Or do laundry. Or wear matching socks, apparently. If it’s [...]

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