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Fish and Seafood

striped bass and clams
Photo by Holly A. Heyser

I was an angler before I was a hunter, and I’ve been cooking fish and seafood, and developing my own recipes for everything that swims, skitters or just sits on the bottom of the water since I was a teenager. Seafood is my first culinary obsession.

For a time I worked professionally as a line cook in a seafood restaurant and spent a while earning my rent as a commercial clammer and fisherman.

Below you will find my favorite fish and seafood recipes, some from “easy” fish, such as salmon, striped bass and trout — I call these “easy” because they are not a stretch for most cooks. I specialize in the weird, however (I am sure this shocks you) so you’ll also find more esoteric fish recipes here, too.

Basics

Some baseline techniques you will find useful as you come across various fish and seafood. Many of these apply to so many different kinds of seafood it’s worth compiling them here.

pan-seared fish

Perfect Seared Fish

How to pan-sear fish fillets, skin on or skinless, perfectly every time. It’s not hard, but there are a few tricks to it.

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And here is my video on How to Sear Fish.

grilled whole rock fish

Simple Grilled Fish with Basil

Grilling a whole fish is an important skill to know. It requires a clean, hot grill, some oil, and lots of finesse.

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fish and chips recipe

Classic Fish and Chips

This is a basic fish and chips recipe you can use with any firm fish. Halibut, cod, haddock, redfish, walleye, perch, catfish, lingcod, shark… you get the picture.

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Recipes By Category

honey sturgeon recipe

Easy Fish

Typical market fish, such as trout and salmon, snapper, halibut, bass, flounder, etc. I catch a lot of salmon, halibut and striped bass, so you will see a those recipes here.

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salmon with cucumber sauce recipe

Salmon and Trout Recipes

Recipes that focus on salmon, trout and char. They range from simple salads to fancy, date-night dishes.

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boquerones recipe

Sharks, Little Fish and Oddballs

Fish you are less likely to see in a regular market. Shark recipes will be here, along with shad and other bony fish, as well as my recipes for little fish like herring, anchovies and sardines.

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rock crabs

Crabs, Shellfish and Other Seafood

This is where you’ll find it if it doesn’t have fins. I do a lot of clamming and crabbing, and I eat a lot of octopus and squid. You’ll also find mussel recipes, too.

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  1. Chad Reithmeier says

    August 14, 2016 at 4:12 pm

    Hi Hank. I catch and eat a lot of striped bass (my favorite), crappie, sand bass, and catfish here in north Texas. But I have always caught and released largemouth bass. Everything I read says they are a sport fish not worth eating. I don’t catch many because I am not looking for them, but I always get one or two when I am on the lake and let them go … Thoughts?

    Chad

  2. Hank Shaw says

    August 14, 2016 at 4:47 pm

    Chad: In North Texas the water is likely to be warm, which means the meat of the bass might get mushy when cooked. This doesn’t always happen, but it does often enough that if you do keep one, you might put the meat into fish cakes, which takes care of this problem.

  3. Gordon says

    September 5, 2016 at 8:51 am

    Hank in your book ” Hunt,Gather, Cook” you talk about skates and rays, do you include the Bat Ray under that category? Nobody I know eats them and they are one of the more common fish caught in the bay near where I live. Are they good to eat , do they require special preparation?

  4. Hank Shaw says

    September 5, 2016 at 9:04 am

    Gordon. Yes. Use the search engine on this site and you will see my recipe for bat ray.

  5. Anthony Murch says

    December 28, 2016 at 5:54 pm

    When will you make the next cook book? Can I suggest Fish, Fish, Clam?
    Oh yes I know you want to!

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