Category: Seafood

  • Seared Fish, Garlic Roasted Leeks & Potatoes with Celery & Olive Salad

    Seared Fish, Garlic Roasted Leeks & Potatoes with Celery & Olive Salad

    i haven’t cooked crap for the last year. obviously. crickets. cooking for the week feels like a chore, and i really stopped enjoying cooking. it’d take a solid hour to write a menu, and make a shopping list. then, off to the grocery store to fight the checkout lanes with grumpy biddies–who argue about bogos and .30/lb bananas. and also,…

  • Szechuan Shrimp & Eggplant

    Szechuan Shrimp & Eggplant

    I bought Iceberg lettuce for the first time…like ever. I must admit, I was kind of embarrassed. I had a basket (I buy less if I carry it, as opposed to push it) full of vegetables and I was toting it around like, “Look at how healthy I am, suckers.” Ok, not really. But still…there…

  • Citrus Scallop Summer Salad

    Citrus Scallop Summer Salad

    Not to worry, I’m not asking you to go out and spend the big bucks on the mack daddy U-10 scallops. Instead, I stuck my lowly head in the freezer section of my local conventional (real food exists outside of Whole Foods too!) grocery store and found some wild-caught bay scallops normal priced at about $8…

  • Spicy Mango Mahi Mahi

    Spicy Mango Mahi Mahi

    I’m pretty sure this is the first seafood/fish recipe I’ve posted in about 6 months. Oops. We just don’t eat that much fish. Not that I don’t like it, it’s just hard  to find any decent, not previously frozen options ’round these parts. Waaaa. Have no fear, I do manage to snarf down a few cans…

  • Curry Fish Chowder with Crou-tains (Paleo Croutons)

    Curry Fish Chowder with Crou-tains (Paleo Croutons)

    I know this looks like a long ass list of ingredients, but bear with me. I’ve tried my hardest to simplify the process of adding a ton of flavor without having to be a slave to the method or the list of ingredients. What I mean is…I am lazy. I really dislike recipes that make…

  • Paleo Fish Sticks (No Nuts Involved)

    Paleo Fish Sticks (No Nuts Involved)

    Perfectly crispy and easy to make, these fish sticks may fool even the most seasoned fish stick connoisseur. Ingredients 1 ½ lbs haddock (or any firm, meaty white fish) roughly 6 oz of plantain chips (Check labels, ideally just plantains, palm oil and salt) F.O.C. (fat of choice), palm and coconut will work well here Method…

  • Paleo Fried Calamari

    Paleo Fried Calamari

    Calamari is cheap, cheap, cheap. I paid $5/lb for wild caught. I know calamari can lend itself to more versatile recipes than just deep frying–but it’s just so goooood, I couldn’t help myself. There are no messy dredging stations and “club hand” simply does not exist. Ingredients 1 ½ lbs cleaned calamari (tubes & tentacles) 1…

  • Creole Shrimp Salad

    Creole Shrimp Salad

    We’re re-mixing the normal mayo-based salad. Don’t get me wrong, I like chicken salad (I’m partial to this one), but sometimes you just want something different. We’re using the classic ‘Holy Trinity’ of bell pepper, celery and onion found in Creole & Cajun dishes as the base of our salad, mixing in some Old Bay…

  • Spring Onion Salmon in Parchment Pouches

    Spring Onion Salmon in Parchment Pouches

    Okay, really you’re supposed to call this kind of recipe ‘en papillote’…but that just sounds so stuffy and intimidating. It’s just some kind of protein (usually fish), aromatics (onions, lemons, herbs, etc.) stuffed inside a piece of  parchment paper that’s been formed into a pouch. This is an awesome way to cook any kind of…

  • Fennel & Fish Chowder

    Fennel & Fish Chowder

    Super quick fish chowder. I used cod because it’s a firm, meaty, flaky fish that’s pretty easy on the budget and difficult to overcook. I even found it wild-caught in the freezer section of the grocery store. Besides using my new favorite soup base of the cream-like, non-coconut tasting coconut creamer, I took out the normal chowder…

  • Blackened Salmon with Tomato Gravy

    Ingredients 4 filets of salmon (about 24 ounces) 3 T FOC (fat of choice) Blackened Seasoning 3 t paprika 1 t dried thyme 1 t dried oregano ½ t salt ¼ t cayenne ¼ t black pepper …or you can buy it Tomato Gravy 1 onion, diced 3 cloves garlic, minced 6 strips bacon, diced…

  • Salmon with Paleo Sundried Tomato Pesto

    Salmon with Paleo Sundried Tomato Pesto

    For the love of pesto, it is hard as heck to make it taste good without parmesan cheese. We’ve tried to make the basic green/basil pesto a few times and it always tastes bitter. So we decided to try a sun dried tomato version to see if the tomatoes would add a sweetness that was…

  • Paleo Seafood Balls with Homemade Tartar Sauce

    A kid-friendly riff on fish sticks. We made tartar sauce from scratch, I highly recommend you do the same. If you’re deathly afraid (which you shouldn’t be) of making mayo, substitute the homemade mayo for store bought, but DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT, buy store bought tartar sauce. It’s so gross…so, so gross. These…

  • Faux-Viche

    Faux-Viche

    I have a difficult time talking myself into making ceviche at home. Even though we’re not far from the coast here in Columbia, South Carolina, it is quite difficult to source fresh, wild ceviche-makin’ seafood. Insert lightbulb overhead. Why don’t I just pre-cook some seafood like shrimp and scallops, chill it and then make the…

  • Skate and Garlic Spinach

    How would you like a fish that tastes like crab, cooks quickly but isn’t finicky about being cooked perfectly and is very affordable? BAM! I have found it…it’s called skate wing. Wild skate wing, $3.99 a pound at Whole Foods! I thought, this is just a sale. Go back to a different Whole Foods, (months…

  • Primal Pesto Tuna Salad

    Maybe I’m not the first one to think of this. I know a quick Google search would likely show me that I’m not, but I just don’t want to know. Seems like everyone has thought of almost all of my ‘AH-HA’ moments. Regardless, this was inspired by a lack of things fresh in the fridge.…

  • Paleo Shrimp and Grits

    Paleo Shrimp and Grits

    Grits are not paleo, but groots are. Groots are our take on grits, Paleo style. It’s celery root, hence the g-roots, pureed with a little fat and some stock. Oh how creamy, dreamy it is. It has a slight celery flavor, but a texture similar to creamy grits. All you non-Southerners out there, grits are…

  • Fish Taco-less Salad

    Fish Taco-less Salad

    Take the fried corn shell out of the dish and it tastes just as good, if not better. Like most salads, this recipe requires a good amount of chopping, but that’s about the extent of the work! Ingredients for Spice Rub 1/4 t garlic powder & salt 1/2 t cumin, onion & smoked paprika 1…

  • Paleo Style Beaufort Stew

    This is an extremely popular dish in the South. It’s usually shrimp, kielbasa sausage, potatoes and corn cobs boiled in water with a sachet of ‘crab boil’ seasoning. Yum, right? Not exactly. I understand the appeal of this meal, but have never quite gotten why it became so famous. Never, ever (except with this recipe)…