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" I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high school. "
Tom Douglas
High
School
University
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" Over the years I've tweaked my stuffing recipe many times, adding a variety of ingredients like sauteed wild mushrooms, dried cherries, fresh chevre, toasted hazelnuts, chopped ham hock meat, and other taste treats. "
Tom Douglas
Taste
Meat
Wild
" We've become such a restaurant society. "
Tom Douglas
Society
Become
Restaurant
" 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. "
Tom Douglas
High
Quality
Food
" Sometimes managers are a little shy to criticize another manager or another operation. "
Tom Douglas
Sometimes
Shy
Manager
" I'm not exactly the best capitalist ever. "
Tom Douglas
Best
Capitalist
Ever
" Ling cod is a mild-flavored and somewhat delicate fish that takes well to poaching, braising and pan-roasting. "
Tom Douglas
Takes
Well
Somewhat
" Entrepreneurial people are never satisfied. "
Tom Douglas
People
Never
Satisfied
" 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. "
Tom Douglas
Rare
Flavor
Still
" The classic Italian green sauce, salsa verde, is easy to make and especially nice in the spring when bunches of fresh herbs start appearing in the farmers market or in your garden. "
Tom Douglas
Easy
Garden
Green
" Who doesn't love digging into a plate of crab cakes or going after a chilled cracked crab with crab cracker, cocktail fork and a plastic bib for protection? "
Tom Douglas
Crab
Going
Cocktail
" 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. "
Tom Douglas
King
Sweet
Summer
" My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I've probably had to go through and raise every menu price now by 50 cents because it took away my profit. I just underestimated what it was going to cost. "
Tom Douglas
Start
Wife
Price
" I would say a full-time waiter in a high-price house could easily make $75,000, $80,000 a year. "
Tom Douglas
Would
Make
Waiter
" In my 'Big Dinners' cookbook, I recreated my mother's recipe for crab dip. The creamy dressing for this dip, made with mayonnaise, tomato paste, a touch of honey, sliced chives, lemon juice and zest, horseradish and Tabasco, is reminiscent of Thousand Island dressing. "
Tom Douglas
Touch
Big
Mother
" Be sure to read a recipe all the way through before you cook. The time it saves you in the long run is invaluable. "
Tom Douglas
You
Way
Time
" Salsa verde is delicious with trout or most any fish. "
Tom Douglas
Trout
Any
Delicious
" For a group of friends or a family dinner, fish tacos are popular and fun to make. "
Tom Douglas
Family
Fish
Friends
" It's really fun to have a convection oven, even it if it's a little convection toaster oven. It really changes the way you bake. "
Tom Douglas
Changes
You
Way
" When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float them on top of each bowl. "
Tom Douglas
Top
Soup
Tomato
" Oysters, such as Dabobs, Quilcenes, Westcotts, and Willapas, to name just a few, are often named after the place they are harvested. "
Tom Douglas
Oysters
Place
After
" Pork is my friend. "
Tom Douglas
Pork
Friend
My Friend
" Coho or silver salmon are very common and easy to get for a good price. "
Tom Douglas
Good
Silver
Salmon
" It's always a good idea to chill your crab cake mixture for a few hours, or even overnight, before frying because they'll hold together better. "
Tom Douglas
Cake
Chill
Together
" My own favorite way to cook and eat razor clams is to simply dredge them in a mix of seasoned flour and cornmeal, then pan fry them in butter until crisp and golden. Be careful not to overcook them so they stay tender, not tough and chewy. "
Tom Douglas
My Own
Golden
Eat
" 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. "
Tom Douglas
Home
Sweet
Time
" Farm to table is a personal choice. "
Tom Douglas
Personal
Table
Farm
" I know Jeff Bezos because I cater at his home. "
Tom Douglas
Know
Because
Cater
" The state of Washington calls tips 'wages.' "
Tom Douglas
Calls
Wages
Washington
" Spanish chorizo is a spicy cured sausage that's especially tasty with clams. "
Tom Douglas
Spanish
Spicy
Tasty
" The two things that are going to make you a better baker without even trying are a scale and a thermometer in your oven. "
Tom Douglas
Going
Trying
You