Showing posts with label cooking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cooking. Show all posts

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Maryland Releases Seafood Holiday Brochure

The Maryland Department of Agriculture’s Seafood & Aquaculture Program is offering a brochure filled holiday meal planning ideas. The brochure features several seafood recipes from the state, including crab ball, fried oysters, traditional Maryland oyster stew and smoked bluefish spread.

The Maryland Seafood Holiday Brochure is available on line at www.marylandseafood.org, by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: Maryland Seafood Holiday, 50 Harry S Truman Parkway, Annapolis, MD 21401, or by calling toll free in Maryland at 888-841-5828. Outside of Maryland call 410-841-5972.


The following recipe is from the Maryland Seafood Holiday Brochure:

Smoked Bluefish Spread

1   pound smoked Bluefish
1   tablespoon horseradish
1   tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 pound cream cheese, softened
2   tablespoons mayonnaise
1   tablespoons dried parsley flakes

Skin the bluefish, remove any bones, and place the meat in a mixing bowl.  Add the remaining ingredients and mix well.  Place in serving bowl or mold and garnish.  Serve chilled.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Dishing Up Maryland Cookbook

A first-of-its-kind cookbook featuring local Maryland products,  the farmers and watermen that grow and harvest them, and the chefs who prepare the recipes is being released on March 24, 2010 in Annapolis.

This new book captures the unique and delectable cuisine of Maryland with "150 recipes from the Alleghenies to the Chesapeake Bay.” Dishing Up Maryland is authored by award-winning Maryland writer Lucie Snodgrass.

Stunning photography by Edwin Remsberg, himself a Maryland farmer, provides the visual counterparts to stories of the farm families and chefs featured in the book. John Shields, renowned chef who embodies the buy local effort, provides an insightful foreword to the book.

A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the book will be donated to the Maryland's Best program to promote the purchase of locally grown and raised products for the benefit of the State's farmers, watermen and related businesses. The book is published by Storey Publishing.