Recipes: Seafood

Grilled Salmon with Chipotle-Honey Glaze and Pineapple Salsa - sweet fruit pairs well with fish's assertive flavor

Peggy Lampman — Fri, 17 May, 2013 4:06 a.m.

Grilled Salmon with Chipotle Glaze and Pineapple Salsa

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Grilled salmon may be unadventurous to some, but there's a reason why it's so popular as a grilling fish. The fatty flesh on salmon sears beautifully — like a well-marbled piece of beef — when exposed to the flame.

Kerrytown Soft-Shell Crab Salad - farm market lettuce is the perfect accompaniment

Peggy Lampman — Mon, 6 May, 2013 4:55 a.m.

Kerrytown Soft-Shelled Crab Salad

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What joy - what absolute bliss to spend a beautiful May morning at the Farmers Market! Us Michiganders sure know how to appreciate a warm, sunny day; everyone I passed on the sidewalks in the Kerrytown area have shed their dour winter continence, seeming to revel in the daffodils and tulips lining the sidewalks. At last — back to the Ann Arbor I love best.

Lemon-Mint Salmon Fillet with Roasted Potatoes is an easy one-pan dinner

Peggy Lampman — Mon, 22 Apr, 2013 10:47 a.m.

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Here's an easy all in one pan dinner recipe where the dressing works double-duty to season the salmon as well as the roasted potatoes.

Monahan's Halibut with Caper-Dill Sauce & Roasted Asparagus - recipe for this firm, meaty fish is dreamy

Peggy Lampman — Thu, 18 Apr, 2013 11:15 a.m.

Monahan's Halibut with Caper-Dill Sauce and Roasted Asparagus

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Last night I dreamed of halibut. Before turning in for the evening, I‘d checked my screen scanning Monahan's Friday Fish Report, which described their just-received halibut as the “fattest, freshest” of the year. Palate pricked, I closed my eyes, sinking into dreamland...

Spaghetti with Fried Calamari sates a comfort food craving

Peggy Lampman — Fri, 12 Apr, 2013 4:52 a.m.

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This is my idea of pure, unadulterated comfort food: Fried squid over buttery linguini...I'll eat lettuce leaves tomorrow.

Pan-Fried Red Snapper with Fried Ginger is a low-labor dish with marvelous flavor

Peggy Lampman — Mon, 18 Mar, 2013 4:33 a.m.

Pan-Fried Snapper with Fried Ginger

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I purchased two beautiful snapper fillets with intentions to use them in an Asian-inspired dinner that could be made in a snap.

"Fried" Guinness-battered oysters for St. Patrick's Day

AnnArbor.com Staff — Sat, 16 Mar, 2013 5:50 a.m.

"Fried" Guinness battered oysters with mustard pickle sauce.

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In honor of St. Patrick's Day I have packed four Irish ingredients into one tasty little appetizer — oysters, cabbage, Guinness stout and Colman's Mustard.

What's that? The skeptics among you are claiming that fully half of those ingredients — the oysters and Colman's — are ringers? Not so. And here's why.

Sesame-Seared Scallops over Citrus Salad - very hot pan is key to good searing technique

Peggy Lampman — Fri, 15 Mar, 2013 4:21 a.m.

Sesame-Seared Scallops over Citrus Salad

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Eat your citrus, fellow Michiganders, the season for purchasing delicious citrus from the United States is now. And Hiller's has the most amazing sweet grapefruit from Texas; I purchased those as well as some scallops (on sale) so you may see the scallops again on Monday's blog; I, personally, have never tired of scallops.

Curried Striped Bass is simplified version of traditional dish from Calcutta

Peggy Lampman — Fri, 8 Mar, 2013 4:19 a.m.

Curried Striped Bass

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Have you ever tried cooking fish in an aromatic curry sauce? It's addictive, and thick pieces of firm-fleshed cod or sea bass are perfect choices when paired with curries.

Steamed clams deliver big flavor and lean protein

AnnArbor.com Staff — Mon, 4 Mar, 2013 1:14 p.m.

Asian steamed clams or mussels with broccoli rabe.

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I'd love to claim that this wonderful recipe required hours of arduous research and testing (not to mention the expert application of all of my hard-won culinary skills) before I was able to settle on the exact proportions of its ideal ingredients. But I'd be lying. In truth, I had almost nothing to do with it. The clams did it.

Certain ingredients — including clams, mussels, rack of lamb, skirt steak and dark chocolate — make meals delicious with very little effort on your part. Really, you'd have to be an idiot to screw them up. Clams and mussels are especially generous, delivering a one-two punch of taste thrills: the succulent bivalves themselves and the deeply flavorful juices that stream out of them when they're cooked.