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" A chunk of seared albacore tuna, salted and peppered, then seared rare in a little oil in a hot skillet for just a minute or so per side, is the perfect addition to a savory plate of fried rice. Just slice the tuna across the grain and fan those mild, meaty slices over the top of the rice. "
Hot
Top
Side
" After being cooked, ling cod tends to bleed out some moisture, so, before serving, let it rest a few moments on a plate. Once the moisture has been released, you can carefully pick up the fillet with a slotted spatula and transfer it to another plate for saucing. This way, you won't sog out your beautiful sauce. "
Rest
Moments
You
" Alaska Airlines and I have a lot in common, so coming together to delight travelers with savory, high quality food from the Pacific Northwest made sense. "
High
Quality
Food
" Albacore tuna has a mild flavor that's delicious served raw or seared briefly on the outside so that it's still rare on the inside. "
Rare
Flavor
Still
" Another way I like to barbecue king salmon is as a whole fish stuffed, literally to the gills, with sweet onions, sliced lemons, and summer sage. "
King
Sweet
Summer
" Around the time I opened my second restaurant, Etta's, I had just finished judging at the Jack Daniels World Invitational BBQ Championship in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Back home in Seattle, my goal was to recreate the sweet and smoky taste of that BBQ using our local wild king salmon instead of pig. "
Home
Sweet
Time
" At the fishmonger, choose fish with bright scales and clear eyes. "
Clear
Eyes
Choose
" Be sure to read a recipe all the way through before you cook. The time it saves you in the long run is invaluable. "
You
Way
Time
" Catfish has a nice firm texture and mild flavor. "
Flavor
Texture
Nice
" Catfish's mild taste adapts well to a wide array of flavors, especially strong assertive ones, which is why you used to see it 'blackened' Cajun style on so many restaurant menus - a trick which soon became a tired cliche. "
Strong
Style
You
" Coho or silver salmon are very common and easy to get for a good price. "
Good
Silver
Salmon
" Cooking with your kids is a remarkable exercise to let them in on the purchasing part of the process - kids love to shop, and its great to take them to these ethnic places where people don't always speak the language. "
Speak
People
Cooking
" Cooks are an undervalued, awesome profession. "
Awesome
Cooks
Profession
" Customers are more friendly when they've had a meal. "
More
Customers
Had
" Disappointing cakes have often been sitting out too long. They should last just long enough to have the last pieces the next morning with coffee - who doesn't love cake with coffee? "
Coffee
Cake
Last
" Entrepreneurial people are never satisfied. "
People
Never
Satisfied
" Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crusty little cake trimmings, ends from a brisket, collars from a salmon, scraps. But they're snacks to me, and I eat them right off the cutting board - maybe too much. "
You
Right
Cake
" Every cook I knows loves to make pizza. "
Knows
Pizza
Make
" Every time you make a fruit crisp for me, you are my favorite person in the world. It's something delicious and warm, right out of the oven. I mean, what more could anyone want? And all you're doing is taking the best fruit of the season, putting a crumb topping on it and putting it in the oven. "
Me
Best
You
" Farm to table is a personal choice. "
Personal
Table
Farm
" For a group of friends or a family dinner, fish tacos are popular and fun to make. "
Family
Fish
Friends
" Horseradish is one of those perk-me-ups. You can use it in a cocktail sauce, you can bread fish with it - it loses its punch when cooked. It's a 'What is that?' flavor. It adds depth of flavor to things. "
Sauce
Fish
Punch
" How can anyone live off of minimum wage? "
How
Live
Wage
" I can't believe how many people don't have time to cook but have time to watch football and 'The Voice.' They're certainly making a choice. "
Time
Voice
Believe
" I can't stand it when restaurants don't have a sense of place in a city. When I'm in London, I want to know I'm in London. When you're sitting in my joint, you know you're sitting in Seattle. "
Stand
You
Sitting
" I crave my mom's Sloppy Joes. "
Mom
Crave
Sloppy
" I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high school. "
High
School
University
" I don't answer my phone in a restaurant. "
Restaurant
Phone
Answer
" I don't ever preach to people. "
People
Ever
Preach
" I don't have any interest in being a chef without being on the business side of things, or vice versa, because if you don't make money at the end of the month, you're going out of business. "
End
You
Month
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