A friend of mine asked me recently: “Do you cook?”. I replied: “Yes. I make great toast!” I am culinary challenged. So, I ordered a copy of Cooking The Catch by Dave “Pops” Masch.
First, Cooking The Catch is not a typical cook book! The vivid and colorful images of traditional cook books are replaced with creative hand-drawn illustrations. And each chapter starts with a personal story.
Second, Cooking The Catch is a book for all seasons. Pops organized his 270+ recipes into Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. I was pleasantly surprised by the eight Portuguese recipes. :-).
Third, if the species lives in New England waters, it may very well be in Cooking The Catch. For example, you will find tasty recipes for bluefish, cod, crab, eel, flounder, fluke, goosefish, haddock, herring, lobster, mako, monkfish, octopus, quahog, salmon, scallops, scup, sea bass, shad, shrimp, skate, smelt, squid, striped bass, sword fish, tatoug, trout, tuna, wolfish, and yellow perch.
Since New England is now dressed in snow and ice, I opened Cooking The Catch to the Winter section. The Pops’ Portuguese Paella recipe looks Yum! I am off to the fish market.
