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I recently pickled some salmon that was in the freezer since last summer. Pickling is a great way to use up fish that you're not planning to cook, but I've only pickled salmon, bluefish, and herring. Does anyone know of any other fish that are good pickled? I live in Alaska, where we don't have...

I was referring to the one post that said that the recipe specified to use smoked salmon but "not lox". Here in our area, the commercial fish smokers make lox with a cold smoking method that takes considerably longer than in a heated smoker. I might have mistakenly assumed that "lox" is the same...

Notes on salmon Coho actually is the same as silver salmon, at least among Pacific salmon. Copper River reds are a prized fish, but in Alaska the king salmon that run in the Copper are not considered superior to Kenai kings. Yukon River kings are, indeed, the class of the king salmon. The...

Momma O's Momma O's is on the corner of 26th and Spenard in Anchorage. Two blocks away is Ray's, for the best Vietnamese food in Alaska, and a block the other way is the Bear Tooth, where the garlic fries are stupidly awesome (as is their beer, which they brew themselves). I wish you were...

Like someone said, salmon can be cold-smoked or hot-smoked. A recipe that calls for smoked salmon is usually looking for the hot-smoked salmon. By hot-smoked, they mean that the temperature inside the smoking chamber was higher than room temperature. The temperature is rarely set very high...

Salmon white goo It might depend on the salmon and where it was caught. Copper River red salmon and Yukon River king salmon are very high in fats (the good kind, loaded with Omega-3) and some of that will cook out of the fillet or steak. It's harmless and doesn't affect the flavor, so if you...

Fish tacos in Mexico = the best If you go to Tijuana, there's a little hole-in-the-wall restaurant called Chuy's that makes amazing fish tacos. I have no idea what kind of fish they use, but the tacos are delicious. If you go to Cabo, there are guys selling fish tacos from push carts, and those...

We used to get the little brown skates (actually, I think they were rays) in the shallows at the beach in Florida. We just skinned them and put the steaks on the grill, then dipped them in melted butter before eating them. They tasted a lot like lobster to me. It helps to bleed them when you...

Won't try eggplant?! You can't be serious! I'm 42, and I said the same thing for years. A few years ago a friend made thin sliced eggplant sauteed in a little olive oil and garlic, and one bite was all it took to hook me. Heck, I never realized how great brussels sprouts were until I was...