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Menu du jour sea fare : 31 Recipes


  • Recipe Just Another Day-excerpt from Sea Fare
    Just Another Day-excerpt from Sea Fare
    This week, my first book, Sea Fare: A Chef's Journey Across the Ocean was released. Available at www.norlightspress.com The following is an excerpt: Just Another Day Anchored off the emerald island of St. John, a small island in the[...]
  • Recipe Hearty Mountain Fare
    Hearty Mountain Fare
    I live my life on the ocean. From the galley of the yacht, I can see saltwater 365 days a year. Sunlight streams through the windows onto my workspace. As many dream of escaping to a beach for vacation, my mind wanders to the majesty of[...]
  • Recipe Tortilla Espanola
    Tortilla Espanola (1 vote)
       It is cold and rainy here in Barcelona.  A dreary winter is upon us. The sun rises late and sets early. I wake in the mornings to darkness and stumble to the market in a haze. It's not until the smell of my cafe[...]
  • Recipe The Return
    The Return
    I could see the masts of the sailboats in Old Port Cannes sticking out of the Mediterranean like pegs in a cribbage board. It had been an overnight voyage from Spain to France. The new crew, who had not been there before, were excited to[...]
  • Recipe Family Time
    Family Time
    "Mommy, what's a butter tart?" My niece held her slender fingers to her mouth to hide as she whispered to my sister. "Um, well. It's a treat."  If Mara had not yet tasted a butter tart in her short life, it was a good assumption[...]
  • Recipe Comfort Food
    Comfort Food
         My mother is a trouper.  Over the years, I have dragged her to dinners that consisted of raw tuna, when she had never had anything but canned before, and spicy curries from countries she had never heard of.  She would[...]
  • Recipe Innocent Eyes
    Innocent Eyes
    It was my cousin's first trip to Europe this week. Escaping the cold snows of Canada, she came to Barcelona for spring break. Each new thing we did was an eye-opening experience, from the depth of history to the rapid-fire speech. But, the[...]
  • Recipe Athenian Orzo
    Athenian Orzo
    ***Brad and I just love Greek food...especially if it involves seafood and feta cheese. So naturally, I was excited to try this recipe when one of our best friends, Dustin, shared it with us. He found it over at EatingWell.com. Not only is this[...]
  • Recipe Crackin' Crabs
    Crackin' Crabs
         Splash! Splash!  A tarpon jumped and flopped back into the still intracoastal waters to the left of us.  I could barely avert my eyes from the food in front of me to see the ripples in the water.  On my[...]
  • Recipe This is Greece
    This is Greece
    "Are we there yet?" I whined like a six-year-old on Christmas Eve. We were racing from the crowded town of Oia to the fishing village of Ammoundi to taste the local grilled octopus that we had fallen in love with all over Greece. "Almost."[...]