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Can You Drink Red Wine with Fish

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I hope to tear down a few taboo walls here today. I plan to do it with an unusual recipe for Spiced Salmon with Wine Braised Shallots, Edamame & Sunchoke Puree I adapted from Holly Peterson, CIA. The wall that’s about to tumble today is the old belief that red wine is for meat and more »

Lobster with Joe’s Spicy Portuguese Sauce

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  I love lobster!  Unfortunately, on the West Coast, it is a luxury.  Our East Coast friends are lucky as past year the prices dipped down to $4.99 a pound.  I would have been indulging all the time!  Occasionally, you need to treat yourself, and making lobster at home is less expensive then hitting Joe’s more »

Sesame Salmon- Just What The Doctor Ordered

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I am going to step outside my usual duties behind the bar today. It’s almost Father’s Day and I want to make a small tribute to my dad. He’s not really a drinker– other than beer and wine. So a cocktail lifted in his honor just doesn’t feel right. I made a salmon dish instead. more »

Pickled Shrimp For My Mother’s Day

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I’m a lucky man here at The Back Burner because my post falls on the weekend. Mother’s Day Weekend. I am also lucky to have so many of my mother’s recipes compiled into a cookbook my brother put together after she passed away in 1993, long before her time. I cherish the cookbook. Of course more »