Sweat onions and butter in a medium pot until translucent, approx 5 minutes. Add celery and garlic and sweat until garlic is translucent. Add flour and cook, stirring, for an additional minute.

Cut bread into thick slices. If grilling, lightly oil both sides and grill each side. Or, run through a toaster, then brush with oil. On each slice, place 2-3 mussels, a piparra and a lemon slice.

Like cookies and milk or mac and cheese, some food just belongs together and one of Guinness's best culinary pals is most certainly seafood and, in this writer's opinion, most definitely smoked fish.

3 to 4 ounces canned smoked mussels or oysters, drained 2 X ounce can smoked sardines packed in oil 1 tablespoon capers Large handful chopped parsley 2 tablespoons lemon juice 2 tablespoons olive oil ...

A Quick Weeknight Dinner That Tastes Like You Tried Harder When dinner needs to be fast but still full of flavor, this creamy pasta with smoked mussels is the answer. It comes together in just 15 ...

Start by making up a salt brine by combining 100gm of salt with 1 litre of water. Whisk until dissolved. Submerge the fish fillets into the water and leave for 30 minutes to firm-up and flavour. Place ...

Roast the potatoes in a 350 degree oven (skin on for 1 1/2 hours or until soft). Remove potatoes from skin and place the potatoes in a food mill. Let cool. Mix egg, olive oil and salt with potatoes.

There’s a lot to love about fall in Columbia — the less abrasive temperatures, the unending parade of outdoor events. But more than anything else this year, I’m just so very glad it’s soup season.

Note: When I call for bread crumbs, I mean stale bread (two days or so old) pulsed in a food processor until it's coarse (about the size of lentils) or fine (slightly larger than grains of sand), ...

Just about every night this time of year, the most seductive smell breezes into my apartment like a taunt. Somewhere some neighbor has fired up a hardwood grill for dinner while I’m trapped with ...