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Mouth-Watering Seafood Recipes: Where to Find Them

by Dr. Donna Schwontkowski (ret.)

Copyright 2007 Schwontkowski. Call for reprint rights.

If you love seafood, you will want to have as many recipes as possible in your personal collection. This article may assist you.

There's something incredibly satisfying about a seafood meal. Loaded with iodine, potassium, natural sodium, and other minerals from the ocean water, seafood is a nutritional powerhouse for your health. Did you know that eating seafood twice a week is good for your heart, brain, and entire body?

Seafood recipes are usually pretty easy to follow. One thing I like about cooking seafood is that you can generally expect consistent results.

You can explore the bounty of the sea with seafood recipes from several websites online. Here are a few:

1. www.AllRecipes.com Here you'll find to find delicious seafood recipes complete with ratings, reviews, and cooking tips. Check out the Catch of the Day, which features a large collection of seafood recipes brimming with classic techniques and innovative flavor combinations. Some seafood recipes that I found include these mouth-watering selections: Cathie's Clam Chowder, Coconut Shrimp, Sesame Seared Tuna, and New Orleans Jambalaya.

   The seafood recipes you find here include appetizers, seafood pasta, seafood salad, seafood and fish soups and chowders, and different ways to grill and bar-be-que fish and seafood.

   Get the family busy in the kitchen learning seafood basics with fabulous shrimp recipes, or creating a new marinade for skewers.

   Thanks to the internet an abundance of great seafood recipes are at our fingertips anytime.

2. www.Sea-Ex.com
   

   Here you'll find additional recipes for different types of seafood organized by species, including preparation, storage, and nutritional information. You'll even have the ability to buy seafood at retail and wholesale prices. Sea-Ex has delicious seafood recipes for fish that is commonly eaten such as catfish, cod, crab, lobster, mahi-mahi, orange roughy, perch, shrimp, salmon, shark, snapper, swordfish, tilapia, trout and tuna.

   If you wish to try some new types of fish, recipes for clams, crayfish, mussels, octopus, oysters, prawns, sardines, scallops, and squid are also on the site.

   Popular wine pairings are also suggested for wines from Pinot Grigio to Zinfandel. The site features great cookbooks, fish photos and general seafood information, too.

3. www.seafoodfish.com
   

   Here you'll find an interesting collection of recipes for catfish, flounder, halibut, walleye, lobster, salmon, sea bass, and others from cookbooks published between the years of 1747 and 1903. Additional seafood recipes from Key West and Florida are featured.

   If you're looking for a bibliography containing an extensive list of the cookbooks, as well as the general information about cooking fish and seafood - the basics from several of these cookbooks. Basic information on different aspects of seafood preparation are available, such as how to broil live lobsters, open a lobster, how to dress and roast lobsters.

4. www.EatShrimp.com
   

   If you love shrimp, go here for your shrimp (and other seafood) recipes. You'll find nutrition, health and dietary information, too.

Resources

1. Submit your favorite seafood recipe here.Seafood Recipe.
2. 294 seafood recipes can be found here.Seafood Recipe
3. The basics of seafood cooking is here. Seafood Basics