Category: Seafood

Mushrooms and shrimp with an Asian accent

Korean BBQ Ingredients

In March, I imagined that I would spend every possible minute of the summer dining al fresco, dipping my toes in the lake and leisurely paddling a canoe. Alas, it was not to be. For the past couple weeks in flyover country it has been dripping hot, the kind of hot that gave (gives) me… more

Get low (country): A very bridal shrimp boil

Shrimp boil 3

Last Saturday, my cousin Taylor got married. And the next day, we had a feast. My aunt and uncle, who live just outside Columbus, Ohio, have probably the sweetest outside party set-up I’ve ever seen — an extensive patio, a badminton net, wooden side tables that double as hidden coolers, a big picnic table with… more

Back to the Big Easy: Bayona’s black bean cakes and lemon-olive chicken

Lemon Olive Chicken

Sitting in the soft light of Bayona in New Orleans, a world apart from the noise and neon of Bourbon Street just one block away, I looked down at my plate of beautiful black bean cakes with grilled shrimp and thought: I must make these again. Dense but not heavy, with a hint of garlic… more

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