Archive for the ‘Fish’ Category

Baked Salmon in Phyllo Dough

This is an awesome dish if you are sick of the usual fish + starch combo (potato, rice) for your weeknight dinners. It is my take on the pot pie/bureka/spanakopita! Enjoy.
Ingredients: (Yields 2)
1/2 lb salmon
salt and pepper
1/2 c raw spinach
handful of dill
2 sprigs of thyme
2 tbsp butter
1/4 c pine nuts
phyllo dough
1 egg (for eggwash)
Sesame seeds [...]

Tahini Baked Fish

When I buy an ingredient, I try and use it in different ways, and stretch the ingredient over a few meals that week. So with the pine nuts I purchased to make my Pennette Harry’s Bar last night, I wanted to see what I could come up with.
This dish is extremely colorful, healthy, and unique. [...]

Fish Balls (not caviar)

The deep frying saga continues! It is ironic that I ate two deep fried dishes this week after never really cooking this way. I learned a variation of this recipe at a cooking class I took in September at the Institute of Culinary Education. The course was called “Fish on the Bone from Head to [...]

A Weekend of Food Fun, in Pictures

From a crappppppy rain filled Saturday on the Lower East Side’s first International Dumpling Festival, to a gorgeous wedding upstate with perfect weather in 24 hours….below is the proof!!

Montauk in October

Here are some food snapshots of the weekend in Montauk, NY (GO ROAD TRIP!)
Eggplant Parmigana from Sam’s East Hamptons, deeeeeeelish.