TIP OF THE DAY: Don’t Toss It, Transform It!

We love the food at Petrossian in New York City. It doesn’t have to be caviar (the restaurant’s most famous offering) to be wonderful, as we discovered when we ordered crab cakes. The chef stuffed sections of the crab legs with fresh crab and sea urchin and topped them with caviar: very upscale sashimi! We’ve…
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FOOD FUN: Christmas Sushi & Sashimi

Delicious Christmas trees. Photo courtesy Bemka.com.   Sushi and sashimi fans: Delight your fellow enthusiasts with these hors d’oeuvre: RECIPE: SASHIMI TARTARE CHRISTMAS TREES Ingredients Cucumber slices Waffle potato chips (you can substitute conventional chips) Tuna tartare and/or salmon tartare (recipe below) Garnish: chives and/or wasabi tobiko caviar Optional garnish: slices of yellow grape tomato…
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FOOD FUN: Stuffed Crab Legs

This isn’t primarily a recipe for stuffed crab legs, but a tip that many things we often discard still have a place on the plate. Here, the creative chefs at Petrossian made a crab salad with fresh whole crab. Instead of discarding the empty crab legs, they stuffed them and arranged them on the plate:…
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