The BEST Salmon (Fish) Cakes Recipe

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Salmon is our favorite fish to cook when we are in the mood for seafood. My husband, the Accidental Recycler (AR), is from the Northwest and when I married him, he brought with him, his mother’s Steamed Ginger Salmon recipe, like a dowry. I gave him Kimchi in return. I’ve had the freshest salmon from one of his neighbors who’d returned from a “Salmon Run“, the day before. It was fresh [...]

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Korean Vegetable Pancake (Pa Jun)

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This traditional Korean Pancake (Pa Jun) is great as a snack or as a meal (I eat it as a meal). It is versatile as you can get, and add any ingredients to the basic batter made with flour, egg, and water. You can add oyster, squid, shrimp, shredded squash, and even kimchee. Or make it just plain with scallions and slivers of carrots. I like adding shredded squash in [...]

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Cioppino Recipe for feeling ‘Bah Humbug’

Christmas is one week away. This is when I should be settling down at night with a glass of spiked egg nog and watching “It’s a Wonderful Life”, having finished with decorating the tree, having done with wrapping all the gifts, and knowing our smiling mugs in Christmas cards delighted our family and friends yet another year. But I am not. I’m not even half way there yet. In fact, [...]

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