Fish Wednesday: Smoked Cod Edition

If you don’t make sure the foil clears the heating element in your oven, you will be shocked by the amount of smoke that you’ve created. It won’t set the smoke alarms off if you are vigilant (or if you haven’t changed the batteries in a while). You will be a little annoyed at having …


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Fish Wednesday: Back in the Kitchen Again!

Seems like it’s been a while since we’ve had Fish Wednesday at home. Bogged down in both a stressful day job and the desire to be a better educated eater, Fish Wednesday has been shelved, migrated, folded, spindled, and mutilated. But not this week! This week, I reclaimed Fish Wednesday in my Seattle kitchen. Shopping …


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From the Archives: Fish Wednesday: Fish are friends, not food edition

If you’ve not seen Finding Nemo, you don’t know the hilarious scene where the sharks get together for something akin to Seafood Eaters Anonymous. “I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine. If I am to change this image, I must first change myself. Fish are friends, not food,” they state, with great earnestness. It all comes apart because, duh, they’re sharks, hello.

Fast forward to Fish Wednesday. Readers of this blog will know that Fish Wednesday happens pretty regularly around here, if not quite weekly. About a month ago, I started wondering where my fish was coming from. I get my veggies from a CSA, why was I getting my fish from the Safeway? Was there a better way to buy fish and did it matter where it came from?

Neon Fish


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Fish Wednesday, Vancouver Edition

My ex-downstairs neighbor very kindly offered us the use of his West End studio apartment so we could export Fish Wednesday to the north. We left the slushy streets of Seattle and pointed the Tercel towards Canada. After a brief stop at our favorite patchouli scented bagel joint in Bellingham, we crossed the border with …


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Fish Wednesday: Messy Kitchen Edition

It seems like all we do around here lately is make a mess in the kitchen and clean it up again. While husband is hell bent on reproducing the Christmas cookies of his youth, I have Fish Wednesday to tackle, and we’re getting ready for a party, too. Bake, wash. Chop, wash. Stew, wash. Mix, …


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Fish Wednesday: Seeking the Source Edition

I have been enjoying the fish counter guy at Madison Market. He’s not exactly cheerful, but he’s helpful and informative and he’s yet to steer me wrong. But after a Christmas Eve mention of Mutual Fish, a rather well known local institution for, um, fish, I decided it was time to get out of the …


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