Must resist urge to make bad cannibal jokes....
But seriously, I like to cook (you may have noticed) but I'm not the best at writing professional recipes. I write recipes like the people of the Middle Ages write recipes, only I don't make up words.
Usually.
Anyway, anyone who loves to cook knows that recently (among other problems) there's been a lot of overfishing, and some people don't want to use domestic raised/farmed seafood because they think it doesn't taste as good. That's ridiculous. Domestic seafood is fresher, and has more uniformity of taste and usually an overall equivalent if not superior taste. Also, it's less likely to have unwanted substances in it, and domestically harvested seafood won't contribute to the risk of extinction for a species (have you seen the state of sturgeon lately??) so at the very least we should turn to domestic seafood to give wild species a chance to recover some ground. So bravo to the creators of the www.GreatAmericanSeafoodCookOff.com for sponsoring a cook off with some great American Chefs and promoting sustainable, domestic seafood.
I voted for the chef from Colorado, John Anders, and his delicious looking Colorado Striped Bass and Panzanella. Unfortunately, I can only make this during the Farmer's Market season which is rapidly ending. This is a recipe that calls for the freshest, best produce you can find and if you've never compared food from a locally grown farmer to the regular vegetables you get at your local gigantic supermarket, you are missing out. My mom sometimes talks about moving to a farm and growing real food, but I would just rather marry a farmer, and make him do all the work. :D
As for the recipe, I would probably replace the Crispy Eggplant with some Crispy Potatoes, because I loathe eggplants. They don't like me either tho, so it's all okay. It's too late to vote for the top Chef, but you can still enter the contest until the end of October and you can get all the recipes - not just the top 5 - by clicking on 'Chefs and Recipes.'
