blackened salmon with a brown butter drizzle

I think I may have mentioned this already, but salmon isn’t really my favorite fish. It’s just so salmony. So it’s funny that we eat it about once a week in our house. Clarification: I don’t care for it as much when other people fix it, I love it when I prepare it myself. Is that snooty?

The thing about salmon is that it’s so affordable and a cinch to prepare, extremely good for your body and a very sustainable fish. All of these things appeal to my sensibilities. Also, I have found some ways to make salmon taste creamy, not salmony.

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exotic comfort food – warm moroccan stew

Wow. I have been away for a while. I feel distant from my little blog space and from my kitchen. We’ve been slowly reconnecting since my time in Orange County; I’ve been sleepwalking through my house the last few days and enjoying my own food in a dream-like state. Ahhhhh…

Anyway, I’m back and I want to share this easy and fabulous Moroccan stew. I made it just before I left for my event in So Cal; I felt so comforted and joyful and delightfully global while eating it – I was transported from my deadlines and pile of work to food fantasy land. It is the FIRST thing I made when I got home. It is warm and beautifully spiced and fragrant and very healthy and extremely delicious. How can something be comforting and sensual and exotic all at once? This is how. This dish. I know I get very intense and dramatic about food, but please, make this and go there with me. It is so, so good.

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fabulous roasted chicken – chapter two

Remember how I mentioned that the secret to perfectly roasted chicken is the very top rack of the oven at 500 degrees, lots of olive oil and skin-on, bone-in chicken? If you don’t remember, now you know. Thank you, Gourmet, for sharing this extraordinary knowledge. This sweet and spicy and roasty toasty recipe is the first way that I had this magical chicken – so pleasing and delicious.

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