Articles Index
Cooking with Silver Salmon
How to cook, choose and store silver salmon, also known as coho salmon.
Cooking Swordfish - Swordfish is a Giant Among Fish
Tips and information about how to cook swordfish well. Cooking swordfish is easy if you don't overcook it.
Sea Scallops and Weathervane Scallops
The large scallops we love to eat are called sea scallops in the East, and weathervane scallops in the Pacific Northwest. When people ask me how to cook sea scallops, I say it's easy: Cook them less than you think.
Pacific Red & Rock Crabs: Cheap & Plentiful
How to cook and get the most out of Pacific red crabs or Pacific rock crabs, two crab species that are plentiful -- and underfished -- along the Pacific coast. Cooking instructions and key tips.
How to Cook and Select Dungeness Crabs
How to choose and cook Dungeness crabs. Cooking Dungeness crabs is easy, and like many other crabs, is best kept simple. Dungeness crabs are a sustainable seafood choice.
Cooking with Spiny Lobster
How to cook spiny lobsters, which are different from Maine lobsters. Cooking with spiny lobsters typically means Mediterranean, Caribbean or Mexican cuisine, but spiny lobsters can be used in any lobster recipes.
King or Chinook Salmon
How to best cook king salmon, also known as chinook salmon. Where to find the best salmon and what to do with it. Cooking king salmon is a joy because it tolerates overcooking and can be prepared in so many ways.
Cooking with Sockeye Salmon
Tips and instructions on how to cook with wild sockeye salmon. Cooking with sockeye salmon is a little different from cooking chinook, silver or pink salmon; here are some tips.
All About Pacific Rockfish, or Rock Cod
What you need to know about Pacific rockfish, also known as rock cod. Included is information about how to cook rockfish as well as whether rockfish are sustainable seafood.
Jacksmelt or Jack Smelt, a Pacific Panfish
What to do with and how to cook Pacific jacksmelt, a common relative of the silversides that lives around piers and jetties. It's also called the horse smelt or jack smelt.
Cooking Sablefish
What you need to know to bring out the best in sablefish, also known as black cod or butterfish. Cooking with sablefish is easy because black cod tolerates overcooking.
American Shad
How to cook one of Colonial America's favorite fish: The American, or white shad. Cooking with shad may be bony business, but shad are among the richest-tasting of our river fish.
Pacific White Seabass, or California Sea Bass
How to cook Pacific white seabass, A/K/A corvina or Calfiornia sea bass, one of the finest fish in the West. White seabass is sustainable and delicious.
Smelt: Finger Food Extraordinaire
How to cook the different types of smelt, and how each species is different. Smelt are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, totally sustainable and so delicious you can eat them whole.
Cooking with Halibut, the King of Flatfish
What to know about buying and cooking all kinds of halibut, whether it's Pacific halibut, California halibut or Atlantic halibut.
How to Cook Manila Clams
What to know about cooking with manila clams, these little delicacies from Japan. Manila clams are the sweetest of the Pacific coast clams, and are now farmed sustainably in the Pacific Northwest.
Cooking with Striped Bass, or Rockfish
What you need to know about cooking striped bass, or rockfish. Cooking with striped bass is a joy, because you can serve stripers in any number of ways: fried, baked, grilled, poached in oil or broth, seared -- even steamed.
Pacific Cod and Pollock
Cooking qualities of the Pacific cousins of the most popular "white fish" in the world -- cod. How to choose, store and cook with Pacific cod and pollock.
All About Cooking with Fresh Sardines
Information about how to cook fresh sardines. They can be rare in markets, but when you find these enormously flavorful little fish, here are some tips about how to cook with fresh sardines.
Cooking with Pacific Surfperch
Pacific surfperch are mainstays of Pacific anglers who fish piers, jetties and beaches. Although there are several kinds, such as calico, redtail and rubberlips, they are best cooked whole and are often rich with fat.
Tilapia: It's Everywhere
How to cook tilapia: What to know and how best to use tilapia, one of the world's most farmed -- and sustainable -- freshwater fish species.
Sand Dabs -- The Littlest Flounder
How to cook and prepare sand dabs, or any small flounder. Sanddabs, as they are also known, are best pan-dressed. They are abundant on the Pacific coast and are wonderful fried.
Cooking with Cuttlefish
How to cook cuttlefish, a relative of the squid and octopus, without it becoming chewier than rubber. Cooking cuttlefish is easy once you learn how.
All About Northern Pink Shrimp
Northern, or boreal, pink shrimp are widespread in the northern Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic oceans, and are -- for the most part -- sustainably fished. They are a little different from your typical shrimp, so here's how to cook pink shrimp.