Eat All About It

Rob Sudar, a.k.a. “Fishmonger,” who kindly answered readers questions on all areas of buying and cooking fish, has alerted me that fish are arriving in the Seattle markets now for the last Columbia River spring Chinook likely to be available until mid-May. The fish are carried by PCC, Metropolitan Market, and Wild Salmon Seafood Market, among others. I just called Wild Salmon, and was told their supply just arrived, with whole fish going for $17.99/lb. (If you walk in right now they won’t be out in the case yet, but you can ask for them.) PCC’s got fillets at $19.99/lb.

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This wheaty, crusty, no-knead sandwich bread looks beautiful and tastes quite good.

Still, I don’t think I’m going to make it again. The no-knead craze has had a good run, but — I’m calling it — by my oven clock its time is done.
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Starting on Thursday, March 19, I’ll be blogging here with my usual mix of food news, interviews, and recipes. If you’d like to reach me in the meantime, please e-mail me or drop me a line. 

And, if you were just coming for my mom’s brownies, I don’t think she’d mind me sharing them here. I believe she originally found the recipe in a fund-raising cookbook from Delaware, my home state:

Mom’s Senate Brownies
2 sticks butter
4 squares unsweetened chocolate
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup flour
1 1/2 cups walnuts
6 ounces chocolate chips

Melt butter and chocolate in saucepan over low heat. Remove from heat.

Stir in sugar until combined.

Add eggs, 1 at a time.

Stir in vanilla, flour, and one cup walnuts.

Spread in greased 9×13-inch baking pan

Top with 1/2 cup walnuts and chocolate chips

Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes.