Sustainable Seafood Tour

Baked Salmon with Mango Ceviche

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This post is brought to you by Harmons Grocery. A week and a half ago I attended a special dinner at the City Creek Harmons Grocery in downtown Salt Lake City.  The dinner was to celebrate the introduction of Verlasso salmon to Harmons seafood cases.  Why the big deal?  In 2013, for the first time […]

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Coconut Curry Poached Halibut with Micro Arugula + A $250 Harmons Giveaway!

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*This post is brought to you by Harmons Grocery Store. Last month I attended a blogger event, arranged by Rachael of Today’s Mamma, at the Bangerter Crossing Harmons Store.  We started with a tour from Bob and Randy Harmon, and then finished up with a cooking class from Chef Kimberly Larsen at Harmon’s Cooking School.

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Alaska Salmon and Cream Cheese Bagels—Cooking with Kids

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This post is brought to you by the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute. Cooking together is about so much more than preparing food.  By pulling our kids into the kitchen, we can teach them how to feed themselves, but also give them a better understanding of where their food comes from.  But cooking together is also […]

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Crab Cocktail

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Happy Valentine’s Day Eve!!  I love this time of year.  I love getting to celebrate love, in all its forms, just as thoughts of spring seem to be tickling the edges of Mother Nature’s consciousness.  Here in Utah, things are already warming up, though I’m sure we’ve still got some cold spells ahead of us. […]

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Grilled Barramundi Pita Sandwich with Cucumber Yogurt Sauce

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Barramundi—such a great name, and an even more delicious type of fish, with a mild buttery flavor and dense meaty texture.  Plus, with it’s moderate oil content, it’s an easy fish to cook, whether you grill it to serve in pita sandwiches like I did recently (recipe at the end of the post!), or you […]

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Braised Alaskan Black Cod

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Alaska love has been flowing strong this year on American television, with Andrew Zimmern visiting Alaska’s Inside Passage on an episode of his show Bizarre Foods, and the most recent season of Top Chef drawing to a close with the final four contestants earning the chance to visit Juneau, Alaska and competing using seafood from […]

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Avocado Sashimi

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Avocado sashimi—delicate creamy slices of ripe avocado served with soy sauce and wasabi and sprinkled with a bit of shichimi togarashi (Japanese seven spice).  I know, I know, sashimi is supposed to be raw fish/meat, but hear me out!  In his book, Sustainable Sushi, Casson Trenor writes, “If we are to resuscitate our ailing oceans, […]

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Sustainable Seafood: A Call to Action

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The choice of what seafood we buy and eat is a choice that we have today, but tomorrow may hold a different reality.  The bounty of our oceans is not unlimited.  The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch reports that “[s]cientists estimate that we have removed as much as 90 percent of the large predatory fish […]

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