FOOD FUN: Salmon Skewers & Grilled Pineapple

Do you like grilled salmon? The next time you grill, how about glazed salmon skewers like these: anchored in pineapple, with a side of cucumber salad? Created by Ray’s Boathouse in Seattle, you can create this clever idea at home. You can use your glaze of choice, or the honey-mustard glaze in the recipe for…
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FOOD FUN: Top Your Burger With Chicken Skins

We have no plans to be anywhere near Hilton Head Island, alas. But if we could get there, we’d head to Lucky Rooster Kitchen And Bar for their Blanco Burger (photo #1). Fried chicken skins were on the bar-snack menu when a customer thought he spotted chicken skins atop a burger. He was mistaken, but…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Nondairy (Vegan) Mochi From My/Mo

We love mochi (pronounced MO-chee), an Asian-American sweet with roots in ancient Japan. For more than a millennia in Japan, mounds of pillowy rice dough have been stuffed with adzuki beans and other sweet fillings (photo #1, ice cream mochi, look similar). A dough of pounded, glutinous (but gluten-free) sweet rice flour is steamed and…
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FOOD FUN: A Hands-On Plate

We love having fun with food. Whether we enjoy it at fine restaurants or make it ourselves, we relish food presented with wit, as works of art, or tongue-in-cheek. Of the latter, we made a literal version not too long ago, layering sliced tongue with beef cheeks. The famed dish Oysters and Pearls at The…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Substitute Shrimp In A Lobster Roll

[1] Pair a shrimp roll with a mesclun† salad (photo © Kindred Restaurant) [2] Wild-caught gulf shrimp (photo © I Love Blue Sea | Vital Choice). [3] Raw whole shrimp (photo © Mercato).   It’s National Shrimp Day. One of the easiest ways to celebrate is: Make yourself a shrimp roll. The photo, which may…
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