First Albacore Tuna of the Season on July 8
Around this time of the year, you start to see colored, handwritten signs advertising fresh albacore tuna from the fisherman who catch them. Buying fresh fish directly from the fisherman who caught it is definitely one of the benefits to living on the coast. I rushed down to the docks and bought our first tuna for the season from Mike, owner/operator of F/V White Swan III; it was a beautiful 13 lb. fish. The fisherman will fillet it for you for an extra $4.00 which is totally worth it. Both Bruce & I are terrible at filleting; Bruce almost sliced his hand off one year trying…..
Anyway, I froze most of the fish, but kept one loin out for grilling. I marinated it in a caper, lemon juice, preserved lemon, olive oil, rosemary, and shallot mixture. I grilled the tuna medium rare and served it topped with the warmed marinade, a marinated artichoke, and grilled purple & white cauliflower and kohlrabi that had been tossed in (previously made, frozen, and defrosted) olive sauce.
Bruce made a complimentary salad with mixed greens from the garden, arugula, radicchio, fennel, green onion, radish, carrot, sunflower seeds, and goat cheese. The dressing was the last of the leftover olive from the sirloin steak salad on the 1st. We enjoyed a nice bottle of Parallel 45 cotes du rhone 2006.
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My husband, Bruce, and I live on the beautiful Oregon Coast. We are passionate home cooks and make dinner from scratch almost every night of the week. We shop the farmer’s market, buy as much from local producers as we can, and support the organic, sustainable, and Slow Food movements. We believe that knowing where your food comes from, cooking from scratch, eating well, in season, and together at the table are all part of living healthy. You won’t find many foods from the middles aisles of the grocery store in our house!! This blog is an account of our home-cooked meals for the year 2008 (and now 2009). The way it works is I prepare the main entree’ (I usually don’t follow a recipe–I like to think of recipes as reference and use them to generate ideas) while Bruce usually makes a salad to match. We eat the salad after we eat the main entree’. We learned to eat that way when we visited Italy and prefer it now. We always have a bottle of wine with dinner, so we’ve documented it as well. We don’t go by what’s best with white or red, we just drink what we like. This project started in December 2007 when there were many discussions regarding the frequency in which favorite dishes were made. We determined that the best way to know how often we ate pasta with Bolognese sauce (or anything else) was to document it. We have been doing just that in a journal since January 1, 2008. I then decided that it would be better to put it on a blog; not for public attention, but for easier storage management and transferability of the data. If you happen to stumble across this blog and find it interesting, or would like to know how we made something, let me know–I am happy to share.
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hello sunburnt couple;
my honey and i live up in the columbia gorge,wind river,drano lake,awesome stl head and chinook fishing.
your photos of the recipes looked wonderful! we have never had fresh tuna and cant seem to find a good place to get it near us. any info would be greatly appreciated.
thank you.
FISH ON!!!!
jeff and sandy
Hi Jeff-
I would imagine you can buy fresh albacore in Astoria if that’s not too far for you to drive. There are several fresh fish markets there that sell all kinds of locally caught fish. Good luck and enjoy.