Lemon marinated salmon carpaccio, such a refreshing Summer recipe, the salmon loin is thinly sliced and marinated overnight, then spiced and drizzled with olive oil, perfect starter for al fresco gatherings!

This salmon carpaccio has been a Summer staple in my house for so many years, everybody loves it and there is never enough.

Beef flank steak porcini mushroom and Vermouth sauce recipe, flank steak is a lean and flavorful cut of meat, it will be very tender when cut against the grain, delicious!

This dish can also be made using boneless short rib, tri tip steak or skirt steak.

Pork roast orange and saffron sauce, a festive and flavorful recipe made with a pork shoulder roast, it can be made with pork tenderloin or veal instead, truly delicious!

Deer sirloin in red wine sauce and its sides, served with spaetzle, chestnuts, pear cooked in red wine and a scoop of cranberry preserve, scrumptious.

It’s completely optional but I like to marinate game meat overnight in red wine with carrots, onions, various aromatic herbs and spices, then I’ll make the sauce with the marinade, a scrumptious seasonal yum.

Squid ink pasta and seafood recipe, this black pasta and mixed seafood recipe is made with shrimps, mussels and scallops, creamy wine sauce and simple samphire/garlic pesto, delicious! 

Shrimps and mixed seafood sautéed, creamy tarragon sauce, scrumptious!

Today, I made this seafood dish with large shrimps and a frozen mix that I found at my store: mussels, shrimps and scallops, but you can make it the same way with fresh seafood or by mixing any of your favorite seafood, such as shrimps of various sizes, calamari, clams, etc., just be careful with the cooking time however, I prefer to cook the large shrimps separately from the smaller seafood.

Grilled bream fillet with hollandaise sauce, asparagus and peas, delicious!

Bream is one of my favorite fish, I like its firmness and mild taste, if you cannot find bream, you can replace it by snapper or sea bass.

Fillet of hake with an olive crust, a delicious mediterranean way of serving fish.

Hake is particularly appreciated in my family: it is a white fish with a firm and meaty flesh, not fat, not oily and its flavor is delicate. Hake can be cooked in an infinity of ways, from sweet and sour, curry sauces, with tomato sauce, etc.

I find that hake is very similar to cod, but more refined. For example, if I were to cook fish balls, I would do them with cod not hake. Another advantage is that hake tends to be cheaper than cod.