Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Fishes & Dishes makes the Pacific Northwest Independent Booksellers Bestsellers List!
http://www.pnba.org/Images/bestsellerlist.pdf
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Halibut Cheek Dip
Halibut Cheek Dip
1 pound of halibut cheeks
1/2 cup green salsa. I used Arriba Fire Roasted Mexican Green Salsa (Medium)
1 package cream cheese
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup grated parmesan
2-3 ounces diced fire roasted green chilis
Sea salt and pepper to taste
Poach the halibut in boiling, salted water until just done, about 3 minutes.
Mix the hot halibut in with the remaining ingredients.
Serve warm or cold with crackers or toasted baguette slices.
*Allowing the dip to 'rest' for at least half an hour mingles the flavors together nicely. You can then reheat before serving if you like.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Jade Dumplings in Broth
The proportions of the broth are approximate. I just threw this together with what I had on hand, so feel free to tinker with it to your taste. Shitake mushrooms would be great in the broth.
Jade Dumplings (from page 34 of the Fishes & Dishes Cookbook, Epicenter Press)
for garnish
2 teaspoons Chinese shaosing rice cooking wine
1 teaspoon chili oil
1 large clove minced garlic
1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger (small hole)
2 carrots, peeled and grated (large hole)
3 baby bok choy, chopped
1/2 head of broccoli, cut into small florets
8-10 Jade Dumplings*
Serves 4
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Kiyo @ Poulsbo Central Market
Kiyo will be at the Poulsbo Central Market tomorrow, from about noon - 5. Chef Kim will be cooking up a sample from the book, so please come by, say hi, get your book signed, and try a tasty treat!
Friday, December 10th
Poulsbo Central Market
12 - 5 pm
Monday, November 29, 2010
Fishes & Dishes at Tom Douglas' Cookbook Social
Included in the ticket price is one glass of wine and tastes from all the cookbook authors.
We'll be handing out samples of our Jade Dumplings with Green Curry Sauce!
For more information and tickets, go to http://tomdouglas.com/index.php/events
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Pacific Marine Expo, Author's Corner
Friday, November 19th from 1-3 pm. Booth #631. Hope to see you there!
http://www.pacificmarineexpo.com/10/public/Content.aspx?ID=21474
Friday, November 12, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Tomi & Kiyo interviewed by Carol Newman on KMUN radio in Astoria
tomi & kiyo in the KMUN studio |
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Zupan's Market, Portland
Zupan's Market
7221 SW Macadam
Portland, OR
We will be demoing how to make Jade Dumplings with Marliese Franklin of Women's Radio. Hope to see you there!
Monday, October 4, 2010
New Alaska Pics
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Upcoming Events
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Margaret Larson loves Jade Dumplings!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
New Day Northwest clip
Monday, September 27, 2010
New Day Northwest taping!
Kiyo & Laura will be cooking on King5's New Day Northwest this Tuesday am, Sept. 28th! Come be in the audience as they show us how to make Jade Dumplings. Seats are free. Audience comes in at 9:30am, done by 11:30. Email newdaytickets@king5.com
Friday, September 24, 2010
Saturday events
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
Fishermen's Fall Festival
Kiyo & Laura will be signing books from 11-1 in front of Wild Salmon Seafood Market at Fishermen's Terminal as part of the Fall Fishermen's Festival there on September 25th. All proceeds from the book go to supporting the Seattle Fishermen's Memorial, as do proceeds from the festival. Fun events will include a salmon bbq, cocktails served up by members of the Deadliest Catch, a lutefisk eating contest and oyster slurp!
Monday, September 13, 2010
Summer Pics from SE Alaska
Seattle Public Library-Ballard Branch
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Summer Fishing Pics
Sunday, August 29, 2010
First Friday in Spokane
Kiyo & Laura will be in Spokane September 3rd for First Friday.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
The Ingenious Feeding Habit of the Humpback Whales
Saturday, August 7, 2010
a review from the Ketchikan Daily News
For the Daily News
My job as the Ketchikan Public Library’s outreach librarian takes me into the reading lives of many people in Ketchikan. I remember years ago, when cooking was not much of a priority for me, visiting Dorothy Sadlier and wondering why on earth she would want to check out cookbooks when she no longer was able to cook.
I asked her about it and she said she just liked to read them. How odd, I thought.
Now I am older (and maybe a teeny bit wiser) and my culinary tastes have matured and improved. I have grown a bit bored with years of cooking dinners and find myself seeking out new and exciting recipes to experiment with.
New cookbooks abound at the public library, but “The Fishes & Dishes Cookbook: Seafood Recipes and Salty Stories from Alaska’s Commercial Fisherwomen” really stands out for me.
This is simply a good book to read. Written by fisherwomen and cooks (among other things) Tomi Marsh, Kiyo Marsh and Laura Cooper, this book is a unique seafood cookbook full of creative recipes and amazing tales of adventure.
If you are local, then you will love recognizing stories about fisherwomen you know and reading about familiar places, and if you are unfamiliar with our people and fisheries, you surely will love the tales of adventure, the portrayal of Alaska and the recipes for the bounty our waters provide.
Every page has a either a color photograph or a collage image by co-author Laura Cooper. Each chapter begins with a story about life in the fisheries, and they all are written by women.
The first story is about the history of Tomi Marsh’s tender The F/V Savage in Brooklyn, N.Y., while others give a history of Dutch Harbor and talk about “the lure of the catch.” There is a salmon primer to explain the anadromous salmon and identify differences between the types of salmon.
Another helpful page explains the difference between the types of Alaska fisheries, the terms used and tips, such as how to clean and cook a crab or a geoduck, and how to make a basic fish brine. One of my favorite stories explains the terms buoy balls — as opposed to just plain old balls — and there is even a bit of poetry in the book, too.
The recipes in “The Fishes and Dishes Cookbook” are pretty great, too. My one complaint is that some of the ingredients might be a bit unusual and hard to find for your average Ketchikan cook on a budget, but the dishes I tried were absolutely delicious.
I highly recommend the jade dumplings, but wish there had been a bit of an explanation on how to “pleat the won tons.” Mine looked a bit wacky, but tasted great.
The smoked salmon pizza was pretty good and I’m about to make grilled salmon with cilantro and lime.
“The Fishes and Dishes Cookbook” is great for cooks and noncooks alike. The Ketchikan Public Library has shelves of great cookbooks, and this one will be available to check out just as soon as I’ve finished my dinner.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Bering Sea Crab Fishermen's Tour
Ketchikan: Bering Sea Crab Fishermen's Tour is awesome (and big supporters of F&D!). If you have any friends/family coming to Ketchikan this summer who are interested in getting a taste of what commercial fishing is like, tell them to take this tour. http://56degreesnorth.com/
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Wounded Warrior Event
Fishes & Dishes took part in the 2010 Alaska Seafood Buffet for Wounded Warriors event this past friday. We served up Shrimp and Orzo Salad with Pesto, Roasted Tomatoes and Snow Peas (p 59) alongside the Alaskan fishing community to wounded vets and their families from Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McCord. Thanks to Ariana and Dewey for their help!
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Third Place Books: Tuesday, June 8
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Upcoming Events
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Seashare
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Upcoming Events
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Saturday, May 15th: Demo, Reading & Signing in Bellingham
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
Friday, May 7, 2010
Mother's Day Bazaar, May 8th
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
Upcoming Events in May
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Alaskan Salmon Nicoise Salad
the sun is shining today, time for something light and refreshing!
9 ounces fresh green beans, trimmed of strings
1 pound small red potatoes
1 small head Bibb or butter lettuce
4 tablespoons capers
1 cup Niçoise olives
2 large tomatoes, cut into 8 pieces each
10 to 12 ounces good quality smoked salmon
(Klawock Oceanside red king salmon used here www.klawockoceanside.com)
4 hard-boiled eggs, halved
Lemon Vinaigrette:
3 tablespoons lemon juice
1 tablespoon minced shallot
1 teaspoon prepared Dijon mustard
Pinch of sugar
Pinch sea salt
Freshly ground black pepper to taste
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
Steam the green beans until tender, then rinse well under cold water and drain. Boil the potatoes until done, and cool down in cold water. Drain and quarter the potatoes.
Place several lettuce leaves on each plate. Place a mound of potatoes in the center and surround with separate piles of beans, capers, olives, tomatoes, and smoked salmon. Nestle two egg halves on opposite sides of the plate.
To make the vinaigrette, whisk together the lemon juice, shallot, Dijon mustard, and sugar in a medium, high-sided bowl. Slowly drizzle in the olive oil, whisking vigorously to emulsify. Whisk in the salt and pepper to taste.
Drizzle each salad with the Lemon Vinaigrette.
Makes 4-6 serving
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Shelf Awareness Review
The subtitle sums up this cookbook--Seafood Recipes and Salty Stories from Alaska's Commercial Fisherwomen--but it's hard to say which is more enticing, the recipes or the tales. The authors have worked for more than 35 years between them as cooks and deckhands in one of
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
KDN article picked up by AP
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Ketchikan Daily News write up
“The Fishes & Dishes Cookbook: Seafood Recipes and Salty Stories from Alaska’s Commercial Fisherwomen.”
By Kiyo Marsh, Tomi Marsh, and Laura Cooper
By SCOTT BOWLEN
Daily News Staff Writer
They’ve braved the ocean from Ketchikan to the Bering Sea, these “goddesses in Grundéns,” harvesting salmon and crab and halibut and herring.
Such hard work produces a healthy appetite, and fisherwomen know seafood at its best.
And thus have these fisherwomen — Kiyo Marsh, Tomi Marsh and Laura Cooper — combined their knowledge of seafaring, fishing and the culinary arts into a remarkable new volume entitled “The Fishes & Dishes Cookbook.”
Two neat things stand out in this book.
A variety of vignettes, glossaries and photos provide an illuminating glimpse of the authors’ fishing lifestyles and the seafood they harvest.
Secondly, the 80 recipes are as adventurous as the authors themselves. Betty Crocker, the poor dear, got left on the dock for this one.
Many Ketchikan residents and commercial fishermen in Alaska are likely to know of at least one of the “Fishes & Dishes” authors and contributors.
The most visible here around the First City is Tomi Marsh, the Ketchikan-based skipper of the 78-foot fishing and tendering vessel Savage, and a 28-year veteran of the commercial fishing industry.
Tomi’s sister, Kiyo Marsh, worked five years as a deckhand and boat cook aboard the Savage from Southeast Alaska to the Bering Sea.
Laura Cooper worked as a boat cook and deckhand aboard longlining and tendering boats in western Alaska.
Kiyo and Laura now reside in Seattle.
So, where did the cookbook idea come from?
Aboard the Savage, about a decade ago, Kiyo Marsh told the Daily News in March.
“When Tomi and I were fishing crab, rolling around the Bering Sea, cooking was always such a challenge,” Kiyo said. “We started off joking about making a cookbook called ‘Cooking in the Ditch.’ Each recipe would be good whether you were in 30-foot seas or tied to the dock.”
Kiyo laughs when she says this, recalling how she’d use bungie cords and straps criss-crossed over the top of the Savage galley’s stove in an attempt to keep pots and pans in place.
“You’d take a hard roll and it doesn’t matter how hard it’s strapped down. it’s going to want to jump,” she said. “There were times where I’m literally just laid out across the stove trying to keep things from going on the floor.”
Over time, Kiyo and Tomi collected recipes, testing and innovating at sea and on land. The process toward a cookbook gathered speed about three years ago when Laura Cooper began helping out.
The world-traveling Kiyo said she loves to be creative with cooking, which is reflected in the selections featured in “Fishes & Dishes.”
“I wanted to try to put some recipes in that were going to be a little different than what you usually see in a cookbook,” she said. “Not just your clam chowder, and your fish and chips, and your salmon dip — not that those aren’t good.”
Her personal favorite recipes in the book include the miso-glazed black cod, a cast-iron broiled salmon and the jade dumplings made with salmon.
Many of the recipes include ethnic flavors from Japanese, Vietnamese, Spanish, Chinese and Thai cuisines.
Kiyo also said she wanted to give cooks opportunities to make things like sweet chile sauce or green enchilada sauce from scratch.
“But you know, definitely if we’re rolling around on the boat, we’d probably grab a jar of chile sauce or a can of green enchilada sauce for the seafood enchiladas,” Kiyo said.
In addition to basic preparation tips for a variety of seafood species (ever de-beard a mussel or clean a geoduck clam?), “Fishes & Dishes” includes some beverage mixology and a section on how to pair wines with seafood.
“Fishes & Dishes’ has several contributions from other fisherwomen, such as Carol Brown, Stefani Smith, Mary Lang, Shannon Zellerhoff, Roxanne Kennedy and Kacy Hubbard-Patton. One short story is about Dawn and Dave Rauwolf of Ketchikan.
There’s also a page on fishing fashion —the book’s working title was “Goddesses in Grundéns” — that covers the fab basics such as Xtratuf boots, Polartec fleece, hoodies, rubber gloves and Carhartt coveralls.
It all rings true, written by women who’ve lived at sea and know their subjects well.
“Fishes & Dishes” is available now at some booksellers, including Parnassus Books in Ketchikan.
“People have been really positive and haav really liked it a lot,” Kiyo Marsh said.
She and Tomi Marsh plan to be at Parnassus Books beginning at about 2 p.m. Sunday during Parnassus’ 25th anniversary open house (which runs from noon to 5 p.m.).
“I’m not exactly sure what we’re going to make yet, but there will definitely be food from the book there,” Kiyo said.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Radio interview with Kiyo and Laura
Saturday, March 20, 2010
IndieBound!
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Upcoming Events
Book signing and demo
with Kiyo & Laura
Whole Foods (Roosevelt Square)
1026 NE 64th Street
Seattle, WA 98115
11-1
April 11th, Ketchikan
25th anniversary party and book signing
with Kiyo & Tomi
Parnassus Books
5 Creek Street Upstairs
Ketchikan, Alaska 99901
2-5
April 14th, Seattle
Salud! Cooking class with
Kiyo, Tomi & Laura
Whole Foods (Roosevelt Square)
1026 NE 64th Street
Seattle, WA 98115
6-9
May 8th, Suquamish
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Book Info
ISBN: 978-1-935347-07-1
Our sales rep in Alaska is Karen Sobolesky, 907-929-3161, karens@alaska.com.
In WA, OR, MT, ID and northern CA our rep is Jim Harris, (425) 392-1662, gacpc@prodigy.net
Any questions please email info@fishesanddishes.com