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Rockfish with Crackling Ginger

August 17, 2015 By JD 1 Comment

Yum!

Looking for an awesome, supremely easy way to cook up white-fleshed fish like rock/lingcod, halibut and striped bass? This is it!

You only need a few basic ingredients and even fewer skills in the kitchen to make this turn out fabulous. I learned this from my good friend Rainsong who lives on the ocean in Humboldt County. She adapted it from a similar dish a family member tasted overseas.

The Goods

Ingredients:

  • Fish fillets
  • 1-2 Cups Freshly-Grated Ginger
  • Peanut Oil
  • Green Onions
  • Rice
  • Tamari or Soy Sauce
  • Sesame Seeds

How to Do It:

Start off by cooking the fish. Keep it simple here: Basic steaming works best but you can also lightly pan grill it with a bit of soy and sesame oil…

Cooking Fish

In a small pan, heat up 1/2 to 1 cup of peanut oil. Get it super hot…pull it off the heat when the oil starts smoking, Be careful here!

While the oil is heating, spread the cooked rice over a platter. You can go white or brown here…whichever you prefer. Then, place the cooked fish on top…

fish on rice

You next move is to cover the fish in fresh ginger, green onions and the drizzle on Tamari or soy sauce. You can also add sesame seeds…

ready for Action

Now, here’s where the magic (& fun) happens! Take the smoking hot oil and lightly drizzle it over the whole dish. The heat of the liquid will caramelize the ginger. Check out the video…

And that’s it! Serve that baby up and enjoy! Rainsong said that the recipe is so simple she’s even done it while camping!

Want to learn how to catch rockfish? Check out my guide to catching rockfish with light tackle.

Filed Under: Cooking, Techniques Tagged With: Cooking, halibut, lingcod, recipe, rockfish, striped bass

Pan-Grilled Halibut with Brown Butter: So Good & Super Easy!

June 18, 2015 By JD 4 Comments

How to make the best and easiest halibut

Catching halibut is fun, but eating them is even better. Especially with brown butter!!

If you are look for a super easy and amazingly delicious way to prepare halibut, this is it!

Pangrilled halibut with a brown butter drizzle is off-the-charts good and even a slightly trained monkey like myself can do it…and come out looking like Wolfgang Puck in the process!

My good pal and TV show host Scott “The Sporting Chef” Leysath (www.thesportingchef.com) turned me onto this and I can’t thank him enough for showing me the light. My only regret is I lived so many years without ever knowing the joys of brown butter!

Anyway, all you need is some salt, pepper, flour, butter, oil and fresh halibut fillets. Here’s how to do it:

Start by completely patting the fish dry with paper towels, and then salt and pepper both sides of the fillets to taste. Next lightly coat the fillets in flour and shake off the excess.

Put a couple tablespoons of olive oil and the same amount of butter into a pan, let the oil heat up over medium heat and then cook the fish until both sides are golden brown…

How to make the best and easiest halibut recipe

Fillets in the Pan!

When the fish is done, put it on a platter in the oven on low heat just to keep it warm. Now it’s time to make the oh so yummy brown butter! Since I’m usually only cooking for family of three, I use a half a stick of butter but if you have a larger group you may need the entire thing.

Cut the stick into even thickness pads and place them flat down the bottom of a small pan. You’re going to want to use a silver or light colored pan so you can see how things are going over the next few steps. Avoid using dark-colored pans…

How to make brown butter halibut

Brown Butter Time!

Over medium-high heat start cooking the butter, stirring frequently…


Soon the butter will start to foam. Keep stirring rapidly…

How to make brown butter halibut

Bubbling Butter

Don’t walk away, stay focused and keep stirring. Pretty  soon, the butter will start to turn a brownish root beer color…

How to make brown butter halibut

Brown Butter Halibut

At this point, you should start to smell the amazing nutty aroma of the butter…SO GOOD! What’s happening here is the water is boiling away and you are basically frying the milk solids in their own juices. Keep stirring. You’ll see little specks (the milk solids) at the bottom of the pan start to brown. Take a few more strokes and then remove the pan from the heat. You can easily burn the solids at this point, turning heaven on earth into something that tastes like an ashtray, so be careful. A few more turns of the wooden spoon and then pour the liquid into a serving dish…

How to make brown butter halibut

Brown Butter almost Done

The brown nectar of the gods…

 

How to make brown butter halibut

Done!

How to make brown butter halibut

YUM!!!!

Careful here, the brown butter will be as hot as molten lava! Take your fish out of the oven and onto plates and then immediately drizzle the fillets with brown butter. A word of caution here: Once you go down this path there’s no turning back. Brown butter will become a regular part of your culinary life!

By the way, this recipe works great on all white fish. I’ve done it a bunch with surf perch too! (Lean how to catch perch HERE). My wife proved that brown butter is also amazing when used for baking. From experience, I can say brown butter chocolate chip cookies are so good they should be illegal!

For other halibut recipes try: HALIBUT & SHRIMP CAKES

Filed Under: Cooking, Techniques Tagged With: brown butter, grill, halibut, recipe, scott leysath

Coconut Macadamia Mahi Mahi

November 16, 2012 By JD Leave a Comment

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Our man Matt “The Food Lunatic” Steiger has been at it again lately…like a mad scientist, coming up with another ridiculously grubbin’ recipe.

Just in time for my upcoming Kauai trip, here’s Matt’s latest on how to take Mahi to the next level…

Check out his Coconut Macadamia Mahi Mahi with Mashed Sweet Potatoes & Succotash at the Food Lunatic

Filed Under: Cooking Tagged With: dorado, food lunatic, Mahi Mahi, recipe

It’s Tuna Season…Time for Poke Burgers!!!

October 23, 2012 By JD 4 Comments


Fall is albacore tuna time on the West Coast and that means there’s some seriously good eating coming up! While I prefer my tuna raw with some wasabi, there are a lot of other ways to prepare this amazing fish for dinner!

Like burgers, for example. Yep, you heard me…Poke Burgers are so, so good and are a great use of the scraps and trimmings!

They also look just as good as they taste! Obviously the presentation doesn’t matter as much as taste, but as you can see from the photo, they present themselves pretty nicely. In fact, I think the above photo is Instagram worthy, seeing as so much food is posted online nowadays! That’ll certainly spread the news about this beautiful burger recipe. I’ll definitely have to learn how to increase instagram followers with companies like Socialfollow first though, because let’s just say I am not very well-known on the site, at all! There’d be no point in even posting that way.

The idea comes from my pal and uber foodie, Matt Steiger, who writes the blog The Food Lunatic. He does up his burgers with a soy-lime glaze and they are da’ bomb! Check out the Recipe here: TheFoodLunatic

Filed Under: Cooking Tagged With: albacore, burger, poke

Halibut & Shrimp Cakes!

August 22, 2011 By JD 1 Comment

Halibut & shrimp: Two great tastes that taste great together!

The halibut fishing from Alaska to California’s Channel Islands has been good this year. While the firm, white flesh of both Pacific and California halibut take well to just about any cooking style, here’s a fun way to make some good grub with your left-overs: Halibut & Shrimp Cakes.

This one comes from our pal Scott “The Sporting Chef” Leysath, inter-galactic wild game cooking stud and co-host of the popular TV show, Hunt Fish Cook.

“This recipe works just as well with uncooked fish as it does with cooked leftovers, although the cooked fish is a bit easier to work with,” he says. “Treat the cooked, flaky halibut as you would crab meat. Make sure that it’s thoroughly dry, not soggy, before you start assembling the cakes or they will fall apart when cooked. If the fish is uncooked, finely dice with a knife or flake with the tines of a fork.”Click here to read more…

Filed Under: Cooking, Techniques Tagged With: Cooking, halibut, scott leysath

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