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" One of my favorite ways to eat albacore is tuna poke. "
Tom Douglas
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" 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
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Mother
" 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
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" I'll never understand those greasy little deep-fried wings most bars serve. "
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" 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. "
Tom Douglas
Speak
People
Cooking
" There's natural mentoring that goes on in my life every day. "
Tom Douglas
My Life
Mentoring
Life
" Money is like manure: if you don't spread it around, nothing grows. "
Tom Douglas
Spread
Nothing
Money
" Mastering one recipe is better than mastering too many. Learn something and own it, and you'll feel so much better about it. You'll have more confidence if you've made it five times, and that confidence adds so much fun to cooking. "
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You
Better
Confidence
" I'm much less shy in conversation than I am on my own. "
Tom Douglas
Own
Conversation
Shy
" 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
" Coho or silver salmon are very common and easy to get for a good price. "
Tom Douglas
Good
Silver
Salmon
" I would love to see McDonald's pay more money. "
Tom Douglas
Money
More
See
" The one thing I could do with my eyes closed is my Grandma's schnecken. "
Tom Douglas
One Thing
Grandma
Eyes
" I think you owe it to your kids to teach them how to cook - you know, self-survival. "
Tom Douglas
Teach
Think
You
" My longtime friend Steven Steinbock, who has worked with me for more than thirty years, is a master at panfrying fish and seafood. "
Tom Douglas
Fish
Me
More
" Cooks are an undervalued, awesome profession. "
Tom Douglas
Awesome
Cooks
Profession
" I don't know too many kids who ask to weed the garden. "
Tom Douglas
Kids
Garden
Ask
" The lakes in Washington State give us tons of crawfish. "
Tom Douglas
State
Tons
Us
" When I wrote my cookbook, 'I Love Crab Cakes,' I asked some of my best chef buddies to contribute recipes. "
Tom Douglas
Chef
Recipes
Buddies
" If you don't have the confidence in baking, commit to making the recipe three times. The first two, do it exactly the way I've told you to make it. Twice. The first time you'll screw it up. The second time it will come out pretty good, and then the third time, make your adjustments. "
Tom Douglas
Baking
Way
You
" I try to eat in one of my restaurants every day, and I eat out in another restaurant every day. It's what I do. "
Tom Douglas
Day
Restaurant
Every Day
" Some versions of crab cakes are mostly crabmeat lightly bound with egg, but I'm a firm believer that a crab cake should contain bread crumbs. "
Tom Douglas
Egg
Bread
Cake
" The simplest way to prepare Dungeness crabs is to boil them in the shell and set them in front of your guests with crab crackers or crab hammers, cocktail forks, and plenty of napkins. "
Tom Douglas
Way
Crab
Prepare
" When I was young, I would make my parents breakfast in bed on Saturday mornings. "
Tom Douglas
Saturday
Bed
Breakfast
" Utrip makes it easy for travelers to experience the destination highlights that most interest them, be it food, art or history. Just like a culinary experience, every palate is different, and Utrip is all about personalizing travel for their users. "
Tom Douglas
Travel
Art
Experience
" I think that people need to stand up with their backbone and not go to places where they feel like the workers aren't taken care of. "
Tom Douglas
Stand
Think
Stand Up
" Salsa verde is delicious with trout or most any fish. "
Tom Douglas
Trout
Any
Delicious
" Razor clams are large, oblong clams, although not as big as geoducks. "
Tom Douglas
Razor
Large
Big
" 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. "
Tom Douglas
Hot
Top
Side
" I was driving around the country when I was 19 and happened to run out of cash in Seattle, so I settled here. "
Tom Douglas
Driving
Country
Cash
" One-pot meals make a lot of sense... because so much of what people hate about cooking is really the cleanup, the mess, the grease. "
Tom Douglas
Much
People
Sense