Tag: Trout

Crispy Trout with Kiwi and Mango Salsa

Crispy Trout with Kiwi and Mango Salsa

There’s something familiar about deep frying fish, but there’s also an exotic side. The familiar trout takes a walk on the wild side and gets a faraway flavor being deep fried and then topped with kiwi and mango salsa.

October 20, 2014 | 2 Comments More
Trout Croquettes

Trout Croquettes

OK. I admit it. Trout croquettes sounds a lot nicer and more intriguing than saying fishcakes made from trout. But that’s basically what these are. People used to turn their noses up at fishcakes, but it’s been a staple in England for a long time. The economical British used leftover cod or other whitefish and […]

May 6, 2012 | 3 Comments More
Rainbow Trout Poached in White Wine with Olive and Garlic Dressing: From Mt. Hebo Lake to the Dinner Table

Rainbow Trout Poached in White Wine with Olive and Garlic Dressing: From Mt. Hebo Lake to the Dinner Table

I love fishing for trout in Oregon and go out every chance I get. Our freezer is always well stocked with vacuum packed rainbow trout, labeled with the date and lake where the fish were caught. Part of the fun is also figuring out different ways of cooking the trout.Tonight for dinner, I decided to poach the trout in some white wine, skin them, and then serve them covered in a dressing of chopped olives, garlic, herbs and olive oil. It was delicious, judging from the empty plates and smiles at the dinner table.

April 1, 2011 | 1 Comment More
Vietnamese-Style Spring Rolls Stuffed with Smoked Trout

Vietnamese-Style Spring Rolls Stuffed with Smoked Trout

One of the fun things about mastering a culinary technique is that you can start innovating when you’ve got the technique down. Today I’m combining two techniques, smoking seafood and making Vietnamese spring rolls to come up with Vietnamese spring rolls stuffed with smoked trout. It’s a delicious way to enjoy smoked trout and makes for a light and healthy meal.

January 28, 2011 | 5 Comments More
Trout, Trout and More Trout — Poached in White Wine with Dill Sauce

Trout, Trout and More Trout — Poached in White Wine with Dill Sauce

After coming home with a bounty of trout from Hebo Lake, we had a dilemma: What to do with the trout for dinner? Tired of fried trout, we decided to poach them in a broth of white wine, vegetables and herbs, and serve them with a dill sauce. It was a refreshing change and the sides of peas and carrots went wonderfully with the sauce.

April 28, 2010 | 4 Comments More
Trout Meunière — An Oregonian's Ode to La Belle France and Julia Child

Trout Meunière — An Oregonian’s Ode to La Belle France and Julia Child

I thought about our trip to Paris last weekend when Charles and I were fishing at Mt. Hebo Lake and Charles was reeling in his first 12-inch rainbow trout. It wasn’t that the fishing adventure reminded me in any way of our trip. Instead, it made me think of the seafood in Paris and the passage in Julia Child’s book “My Life in France”, where she eats her first French meal in Rouen at Restaurant La Couronne and has sole meunière. She describes the buttery sole melting in her mouth, and I thought…trout meunière.

April 22, 2010 | 4 Comments More
Trout with a Pan-Asian Twist — Pepper Basil Trout

Trout with a Pan-Asian Twist — Pepper Basil Trout

From my childhood in Thailand and Singapore, I remember a fish dish that Mom cooked. She would deep fry a whole fish and then smother it in sauce comprised of bell peppers, tomatoes and garlic that was simply seasoned with fish sauce. In most restaurants, this would probably pass as sweet and sour fish if […]

March 18, 2010 | 1 Comment More
Smoked Seafood Platter

Smoked Seafood Platter

For those of you who don’t get excited by raw seafood, smoked is a refreshing way to serve a variety of seafood that makes an easy and beautiful dinner presentation. When Charles and I went to Paris many years ago, I remember the  displays outside the restaurants, with fish, oysters, clams and shrimp arranged in beautiful […]

February 8, 2010 | 2 Comments More
Smoked Trout Mousse

Smoked Trout Mousse

I first tasted smoked trout when we lived in Baltimore. At a farmers’ market near our home, owners of the Metropol Café had a booth where they served all kinds of smoked seafood as well as cheeses. I remember the wonderful aroma and flavor of the smoked trout. One of the two women had gone […]

December 27, 2009 | 0 Comments More
Trout à la Chateau Cuisine — Truites aux Morilles (Trout with Morel Mushrooms)

Trout à la Chateau Cuisine — Truites aux Morilles (Trout with Morel Mushrooms)

Fishing is one of those activities that I’ve come to relish for several reasons. It gets me out in the mountains, streams, rivers and lakes, to the ocean, on the beach to surf fish, or on the many jetties that dot the coast to catch rockfish. It reminds me that nature is constant and, at […]

December 10, 2009 | 2 Comments More
When the Going Gets Tough in Oregon, the Tough Go Trout Fishing...Guess What's for Dinner?

When the Going Gets Tough in Oregon, the Tough Go Trout Fishing…Guess What’s for Dinner?

  Most people work all day at a stressful job in an office and then, to blow off steam, go work out at a windowless indoor gym somewhere. In Oregon, you can still go to an indoor gym, but why do that when there’s so much more you can do outdoors?   Right around the end […]

August 31, 2009 | 5 Comments More