Fresh Fish: A Fearless Guide to Grilling, Shucking, Searing, Poaching, and Roasting Seafood

by Jennifer Trainer Thompson

Overview

Cooking fish and other seafood at home is much easier than you think! Fresh Fish offers simple step-by-step instructions for all of the essential cooking methods, including baking, pan-frying, braising, broiling, steaming, poaching, roasting, marinating, and grilling — along with 175 mouthwatering recipes that bring out the best in everything from fish fillets and whole fish to shrimp, mussels, lobster, clams, calamari, and more. You’ll also learn how to buy fish (even whole fish) with confidence, how to serve fish raw, how to clean freshly dug clams, and much more. Beautiful photography celebrates both the food and the lazy charm of summers at the beach; this is a delightful read as well as the cookbook you need to easily enjoy your favorite seafood at home.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780594126171
Publisher:	Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	03/22/2016
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	225,687
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Jennifer Trainer Thompson is the author of 18 books, including Fresh Fish, The Fresh Egg Cookbook, and Hot Sauce! Nominated for three James Beard Awards, she has been featured in Martha Stewart Living and Coastal Living magazines, and she has written for Yankee, Travel & Leisure, the Boston Globe, and the New York Times, among other publications. Thompson is the chef/creator of Jump Up and Kiss Me, an all-natural line of spicy foods. She splits her time between the Berkshires and Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Soups and Chowders
2. Things That Swim
3. Things with Shells
4. On the Beach
5. On the Side
6. Cocktails
7. Sweet Endings
Acknowledgments
Index

Editorial Reviews

"You can practically smell the salty air and fell the sand between your toes while reading this charming ode to seashore life with its winning recipes."
— Vicky Lowry, Features Director, Elle Decor

"Jennifer Trainer Thompson's cookbook delivers deliciously, with coastal recollections, gorgeous photography, and amazing recipes."
— Steele Marcoux, Editor, Coastal Living

"This wonderful collection of approachable, inventive recipes captures the spirit of beach living and highlights the bounty of the sea while demystifying how to cook fish."
— Karen J. Covey, Founder/Publisher of The Coastal Table magazine

"Fresh Fish is more than a cookbook — it brims over with details and memories of life by the sea."
— Lincoln Russell, photographer

 

From the Publisher

05/15/2016
After reminiscing about idyllic summers in coastal New England, Thompson (Hot Sauce!) shares 175 recipes intended to make cooking fish less intimidating. Some dishes are written for specific species (seared ginger sea scallops), but many lend themselves to substitutions (oil poached fish, fish cakes with tomato sauce). Cooks of all skill levels can easily concoct a meal by combining individual recipes for soups, mains, sides, cocktails, and desserts. Alternately, they can select one of several multicomponent recipes for stand-alone meals, such as bacon-wrapped whitefish with charred fingerling potatoes and frisee salad. VERDICT A capable, reasonably priced all-purpose seafood cookbook that focuses primarily on recipes.

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