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" Sweet Washington cherries and Walla Walla onions are two of my favorite local treats. "

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" My favorite way to cook trout is whole, bone-in, on the grill. The fish are stuffed with sliced lemons and herb sprigs, brushed with oil, and cooked over fairly hot coals until the skin is crisp and the flesh is moist and flaky. Go ahead and gild the lily by adding a sauce. "

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" Steaming is a great way to cook any firm fleshed fish, but it's often overlooked by the home cook. "

" Thanks to the abundance of shellfish in Puget Sound, Washington State is the largest oyster producer in the country. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In the restaurant business, there's the concept of pivot. Pivot to the stove, pivot to the refrigerator. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" The two things that are going to make you a better baker without even trying are a scale and a thermometer in your oven. "

" When you watch 'Shark Tank,' everything is about off-shore this, off-shore that. "

" If you want something beautiful to put on the dinner table, pick up a sockeye, the salmon species with the most vivid red flesh. "

" I think you owe it to your kids to teach them how to cook - you know, self-survival. "

" The lakes in Washington State give us tons of crawfish. "

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" It's just an American tradition to make sure people don't leave hungry. The worst thing is to have them say, 'Great dinner, but now I have to go get a burger.' "

" I particularly like to make crunchy slices of garlic bread to serve with steamed clams. "

" 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. "

" It's hard to legislate what people eat. People are getting fed up with being told what they can and can't do. It boils down to personal responsibility. People need to read labels, do their research and act accordingly. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't answer my phone in a restaurant. "

" While it's typical to find steamed clam recipes which include a bit of bacon or sausage, you might not think of adding shredded ham hock, but it's another way to pair the lusty, smoky flavor of animal fat with the briny ocean flavor of shellfish. "

" 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. "

" I love being able to help promote Seattle to travelers worldwide. "