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Smoked Salmon Salade Nicoise
Dinner outside again! I lived in LA for three years and appreciated the weather every single day. You can be sure that I’ll also be able to sustain this glee through every single outdoor meal of...
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Sorta-Caesar Salad
Well, the nice thing about this endless Seattle gloom is that the lettuce isn’t bolting. When I first moved to Seattle, J and I lived in a tiny house, and one of the first things we did was put in a...
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Smoked Salmon Spaghetti alla Carbonara with Spicy Peppers
There are currently only three chickens in our backyard flock: Ducky, Feather, and Feather. Yes, two Feathers, both black. I’ll gloss over the details of what happened to the original black Feather,...
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Senegalese Stuffed Fish and Rice
It always pays to have fun friends with good ideas. In addition to the adventures you’ll have with them, you’ll get to meet their friends, who are also likely to be fun people with good ideas, who...
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How to Grill Salmon
Welcome to Emmy Cooks! You can see some of my favorite recent recipes by clicking the “My Favorite Recipes” category on the sidebar (here are June, July, and August). If you like what you see here,...
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Steamed Fish and Bok Choy with Garlic and Ginger
Yes, of course you can make this spunky 15-minute healthy meal with tofu instead of fish. Or halibut fillets instead of salmon steaks, which is what I usually do. Or any white fish, really. But lest...
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Colorful Vegetables with White Dip
I love a picnic. And we spent yesterday evening at the best picnic of the year.It was a party with friends and friends-of-friends, all in white at a waterfront park in Seattle. The location was a...
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Baked Fish with Thai Basil and Peppers
Today I put my money where my mouth is and bought a thirty-pound watermelon. Yes, you read that right. Thirty. Pounds. Thirty pounds! Does this ever happen to you? One minute I was innocently...
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Pasta with Smoked Salmon, Cream Cheese, and Peppers
I meant to eat chocolate cake for dinner tonight. It was just one of those days. J kindly intervened and made me this instead. It was so good. Salty, creamy, hearty–and it even used up some of our...
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Baked Fish and Potatoes in a Saffron-Tomato Broth
This is a dish that a friend first made for me and now I make it for friends. It’s fancy-looking but easy enough for quick weeknight cooking. Serve it with a nice salad and a dinner is ready in half...
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