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Delicious California Spiced Walnut Recipes
Delicious spiced walnut snacks and appetizers are easy to make — and healthful too!
Skamania Lodge Salmon Chowder: A Hearty Winter Dish
This recipe for Skamania Lodge’s Salmon Chowder features all the flavors of a classic chowder, but with lots of healthful vegetables and smoked salmon.
Oven Roasted Tomatoes
Oven roasting Italian plum tomatoes in this slow fashion creates intensely-flavored bits of deliciousness.
Chef Mike Graziano’s Scallop Ceviche
There’s nothing like fresh scallop ceviche from Hawaii.
Smoked Salmon Chowder, Port Townsend, WA
This smoked salmon chowder is creamy, smoky, and satisfying.
Sopa de Pescado (Fish Soup)
Deliciously rich Sopa de Pescado (Fish Soup) direct from a Gaifuna chef.
Chef Wah’s Dim Sum Dumplings
These delicious dim sum dumplings are from Chef Wah at the The Academy at the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong.
Oysters with Italian Bread Crumbs
I was not an oyster fan – until I ate Chef Jamilla Lucas’ heavenly baked oysters. Made with Parmesan, lemon, butter, and Italian bread crumbs, they are rich, creamy, and just slightly briny.
Corn Chowder
We enjoyed this thick, rich corn chowder at Sky High Wilderness Ranch just before taking off for a chilly sled dog adventure.
Oysters Unnamed
Fresh oysters are incredible broiled with bacon and cheddar cheese.
Beet and Turnip Bisque
Smoked paprika picks up the earthiness of the beets and what Michele Genest calls the “horse-radishy bite of the turnip.”
El Pinto Guacamole
El Pinto Restaurant’s owners, Jim and John Thomas, say the secret to making exceptional guacamole is not to squash the avocado, but to coarsely chop it with a knife while it’s in the bowl.
