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Tin Fish Gourmet: Great Seafood from Cupboard to Table
There is life beyond tuna casserole, and it includes crab and goat cheese strudel, salmon burgers, roast sardine and leeks and shrimp and dill quiche. This book is ideal for anyone who wants to prepare a quick and stylish meal with what''s in the cupboard.'
176 pages, Paperback
First published September 28, 1998
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November 8, 2020
Lovely cook book. Beautiful pictures, and I cant wait to try some of these recipes!
October 1, 2015
in Fish Gourmet by Barbara-jo McIntosh is a innovative and creative cookbook! It is a great recommendation for nearly anyone! It is great to recommend for students on a budget, young couples, new cooks, customers who love fish, etc.
I made this book a staff pick at the store! The recipes are delicious, easy to follow, fun to make, and when made look exactly like the pictures in the book. The layout of this book is also beautiful. The recipe ingredients were mostly those people usually have in their own pantry. I never knew that there were so many great recipes for canned fish other then making sandwiches. Plus the fact that canned fish products have very long shelf lives.
From the recipes, I made the Salmon Coulibiac and the New England Salmon Cakes; both recipes were delicious! Both were very creative uses of canned Salmon to make restaurant quality recipes. The recipes also are very affordable to make, not using expensive indigents, such as high priced spices like saffron.
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I think what I like best of from this cookbook is the fact that it is easy to keep canned fish products in the cupboard. When one is rushed with short preparation time for meals, the affordability of these recipes make it very “last minute” with good results. I think this is important due to the busy lifestyles we live.
This is a cookbook with fast and easy preparation times. Not everyone is a gourmet chef. Some of the television cooking shows are intimidating. Tin Fish Gourmet helps even novice cooks to produce quality meals.
I look forward to other cookbooks designed for maximum results for tight budgets and quick results. I want to end with ’bon appetite’, but this is too cliche.
I made this book a staff pick at the store! The recipes are delicious, easy to follow, fun to make, and when made look exactly like the pictures in the book. The layout of this book is also beautiful. The recipe ingredients were mostly those people usually have in their own pantry. I never knew that there were so many great recipes for canned fish other then making sandwiches. Plus the fact that canned fish products have very long shelf lives.
From the recipes, I made the Salmon Coulibiac and the New England Salmon Cakes; both recipes were delicious! Both were very creative uses of canned Salmon to make restaurant quality recipes. The recipes also are very affordable to make, not using expensive indigents, such as high priced spices like saffron.
Pictured here: https://41.media.tumblr.com/56e1e9d5c...
and
https://41.media.tumblr.com/abd26d505...
I think what I like best of from this cookbook is the fact that it is easy to keep canned fish products in the cupboard. When one is rushed with short preparation time for meals, the affordability of these recipes make it very “last minute” with good results. I think this is important due to the busy lifestyles we live.
This is a cookbook with fast and easy preparation times. Not everyone is a gourmet chef. Some of the television cooking shows are intimidating. Tin Fish Gourmet helps even novice cooks to produce quality meals.
I look forward to other cookbooks designed for maximum results for tight budgets and quick results. I want to end with ’bon appetite’, but this is too cliche.
August 7, 2015
As a child growing up in the Midwest, The sound of the electric can opener combined with the stank of canned tuna would send my sister and I running up the block and brought our cat, shadow, out of her hiding spot so she could lap up the tuna juice. The thought that we were eating this thing with so many similarities to wet cat food sent me into a gagging fit.
One day I happened to see my grandfather discover and then lustily open a can of sardines. He plucked them out of the can by the tail and slurped them down head first as if it were the most luxurious thing in world. It was the first time I had seen him truly enjoy anything. I started to suspect that there was more to canned sea food than a lumpy, smelly casserole.
It turns out there can be. Tin Fish Gourmet is a great introduction to canned sea food. There are sections of recipes devoted to canned anchovies, caviar, clams, crabmeat, oysters, salmon, sardines, shrimp and of course TUNA! It has felt exotic to go through this cookbook and discover how to use those cute cans of affordable protein. There are a few recipes that gave me horrible flashbacks (sardine and gorgonzola sandwiches, bleck!). Overall, all this book has introduced new staples into the dinner rotation( salmon burgers, oyster pot pie, curried crab, yum!)
I love having this book as a resource. When the grocery store puts canned sea food on clearance I scoop it all up, knowing that this book can help me turn those deals into delicious meals that my Midwestern family will devour.
One day I happened to see my grandfather discover and then lustily open a can of sardines. He plucked them out of the can by the tail and slurped them down head first as if it were the most luxurious thing in world. It was the first time I had seen him truly enjoy anything. I started to suspect that there was more to canned sea food than a lumpy, smelly casserole.
It turns out there can be. Tin Fish Gourmet is a great introduction to canned sea food. There are sections of recipes devoted to canned anchovies, caviar, clams, crabmeat, oysters, salmon, sardines, shrimp and of course TUNA! It has felt exotic to go through this cookbook and discover how to use those cute cans of affordable protein. There are a few recipes that gave me horrible flashbacks (sardine and gorgonzola sandwiches, bleck!). Overall, all this book has introduced new staples into the dinner rotation( salmon burgers, oyster pot pie, curried crab, yum!)
I love having this book as a resource. When the grocery store puts canned sea food on clearance I scoop it all up, knowing that this book can help me turn those deals into delicious meals that my Midwestern family will devour.
September 4, 2013
I picked this cool cookbook using tinned fish because it was interesting. The recipes actually work and the errors are few, but hilarious. In the Crab Risotto you have the hilarious "Add the lemon juice and wine, stir and let the liquid absorb the rice" ... the rice absorbs the liquid normally.
Copies of old canned fish labels decorate the book and the unfussy style is a real break from the ponderous tomes Chefs seem to churn out, I liked this book and since it is written by a local west coast author ... I bought it.
Copies of old canned fish labels decorate the book and the unfussy style is a real break from the ponderous tomes Chefs seem to churn out, I liked this book and since it is written by a local west coast author ... I bought it.
January 5, 2013
I love this cookbook. LOVE IT.
May 20, 2015
Very disappointed in this book, was expecting too much I guess
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