Fish & Seafood Archives - Rhubarb and Cod

Seared Tuna Salad with Spicy Cashew Dressing

May 26, 2025 No Comments

Spring has been, um, lacklustre up to this point. Cold rain is the dominant theme and my least favorite form of precipitation. So, yeah, I’m far from impressed. But even this slow and painful spring can’t keep me from daydreaming about the summer fare that will soon be on the menu. The weather may scream soup, but my heart wants this Seared Tuna Salad with Spicy Cashew Dressing. I particularly love this dish because it features my current obsession: An ahi tuna saku block. Although when I refer to it as an “ahi tuna saku block”, I’m being redundant because saku means “block” in Japanese, and ahi means yellowfin and bigeye tuna in Hawaiian. So in reality, I just called this piece of fish a “tuna tuna block block”. Sometimes you just have to laugh.

Fish & Seafood, Grains & Legumes

Tonnato Broad Beans with Shaved Fennel

March 31, 2025 No Comments

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Life has been busy lately. Not looking for sympathy – I’m sure it’s been busy for you as well. The spring is just kind of like that. People are waking up, and it’s time to get down to business. And by “business,” I mean everything you neglected while in you were in your mid-winter stupor. Or maybe that’s just me. Lately, many of my meals have looked like these Tonnato Broad Beans with Shaved Fennel. Something I can make quickly, consume slowly over a week, and shovel into my mouth via toast while keeping one hand on my keyboard. I firmly believe we all need meals like these in our lives.

Brunch, Fish & Seafood

Salmon and Spinach Fishcakes

March 7, 2025 No Comments

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Today’s Salmon and Spinach Fishcakes may not look like a clean-out-the-fridge meal, but I promise you they were born out of necessity. An excess of food is a frequent occupational hazard in my work. Brands are often overly generous with their products, which is good when you’re doing rounds of recipe testing. But now and then, you nail the recipe in the first few attempts, and you’re left with more food than you can reasonably handle. This happened to me the other week, and the food in question was an almost complete side of beautiful Atlantic salmon. I know – what a hardship! This scenario would be far from a tragedy in a salmon-lovers home. I am a salmon-lover, but my partner, well, there are few things he dislikes more.

Fish & Seafood, Pies & Tarts, Pub Grub

Smoked Haddock Pie

December 11, 2024 No Comments

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Tis the season of comfort food and it doesn’t get more comfortable than this Smoked Haddock Pie. This dish features a rich and creamy béchamel sauce studded with chunks of smoked haddock, tender green peas, shallots, and a host of herbs baked under a lid of buttery mashed potatoes. I piped the potatoes into rosettes and studded them with peas for a little festive flair. This step is technically optional, but if you’re anything like me, it really isn’t. I can’t say no to a little retro charm. So let’s dive right in!