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We love clams steamed in white wine, butter, clam juice/broth and Grate Grinds Chefs Seasoning Salt to start a meal.  One of the great things about this is the simplicity of it. Ingredients: 1 50 count bag of fresh live littleneck clams, rinsed of any sand or dirt.  If the shells don’t close when lightly tapped they may not be live.  Discard them or shells that are broken. 2 cups white dry white wine – for a bolder taste use a chardonnay, for a milder more subtle taste use a sauvignon blanc. 1 bottle clam juice, 8oz. – You can substitute a...

There are two types of smoking of salmon:  cold smoking and hot smoking. Cold smoking will result in “lox”, which is defined as cured, cold smoked salmon.  It is not cooked, so it is soft, supple, pink and needs to be sliced very thin against the grain of the salmon filet.  It is generally served with cream cheese and bagels or on a platter with capers, sliced tomatoes, diced egg, shaved red onions, chive cream cheese and toast points (small slices of bread toasted). Hot smoking is what we are doing here.  We will cure the salmon filet, then rinse...

Grate Grinds Battered Fish & Chips Serves 4 people (Tartar Sauce recipe below) A classic combination of beef batter fried cod and steak cut French fries with tartar sauce. INGREDIENTS – STEAK CUT FRENCH FRIES: 4 each medium sizes Russet (baking) potatoes A/R frying oil.  Put 1″ to 1 1/2″ of oil in your fry pan.  We use peanut oil, but use your own preference. A/R Grate Grinds Salt & Pepper Mix METHOD: Heat oil in a wide sauteuse (straight sided sauté pan) pan to 300F.  Use an instant read digital pocket thermometer!  Guessing doesn’t work too well.  If you have a...

Grate Grinds Simple/Fresh Salmon Burger Recipe – serves 4 Ingredients: 24 oz. Fresh Salmon filet, skin-off, boneless 2 each Whole XL Egg, lightly beaten 2 TBSP Mayo 1 TBSP Fresh Lemon Juice 1  1/2 TSP Grate Grinds American Regional Spice Blend:  Cedar Plank Seafood Seasoning, Maryland Seafood Seasoning, Lemon Garlic Dill Seasoning, Hawaiian Seafood Seasoning or Seattle Seafood Seasoning 1/2 cup Panko (Japanese bread crumbs) Method:   Cut the fresh salmon in 1/4″ dice and place in a mixing bowl. 2.  Combine all the remaining ingredients into the mixing bowl and stir to thoroughly mix. 3.  If you like the coarser type of...