Seafood Dishes for Your New Year’s Party

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Michele Cheplic

I grew up in Hawaii where no one rings in the New Year without indulging in fresh seafood. Whether it’s sashimi, oysters, crab or shrimp, locals make sure there is some type of seafood in their systems by the time midnight arrives. Now that I live 5,000 miles away from my island home I have to make do with my current resources. It’s not as easy getting your hands on sashimi in Wisconsin, which is why I have learned to feature a few other seafood dishes on my New Year’s menu. Case in point: Seafood Newburg. This decadent dish is … Continue reading →

Sushi – Try It, You’ll Like It!

Posted on January 27, 2006 by Libby Pelham

I will be the first to admit that I am skeptical of eating certain types of food. For example, I swore I would never eat sushi. It just looked wrong, especially with me being from the South where we not only cook everything, but we deep fry Twinkies. I never tried sushi until I was in California and then, it was only out of peer pressure. Co-workers and I went to a restaurant with a sushi bar in La Jolla called Cafe Japengo. I nervously looked around the restaurant, seeing what other people were eating. I was convinced the seaweed … Continue reading →