Higher Seafood Prices a Reality

What can seafood lovers do to soften the blow?

There’s been a lot of news lately about the rising cost of food. And if you’ve looked in the seafood case lately, no doubt you have noticed seafood is not immune to these price pressures. So why have seafood prices headed higher and when will they come down? And what can seafood lovers due to soften the blow?

First, it’s important to understand that seafood is a global commodity. While the U.S., especially Alaska, is a prodigious seafood producer, most of the seafood caught in our waters is exported. more

Cutting Calories

How to Cook Fish

HEY, DON’T RUN AWAY IN FEAR!! FISH IS EASY TO COOK, despite what you might have been told. It is one of the easiest and most versatile foods you could want for a quick and healthy middle-of-the-busy-workweek meal at home. In the same time it takes to boil a handful of pasta and steam some vegetables, you can have a delicious seafood recipe on the table—the best of all possible fast foods.

But exactly how are you going to cook that piece of fish? Possibilities are endless, but for dinner tonight, you just need one idea, you need it now and you need it to be easy. Well, here’s Simply Seafood to the rescue! more

Potatoes & Seafood

A Hot New Pair

Anyone who has ever enjoyed an order of hot, crispy fish and chips sprinkled with malt vinegar or dunked into creamy tartar sauce doesn’t need to be reminded that fish and potatoes are good together. The flavors of the sea and the earth mingle on your taste buds and inspire visions of hard work and fresh air. A carefully prepared dish of great seafood and potatoes can be, for many, the perfect meal. more

Seafood Chili

It’s been said that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who eat chili with beans and those who eat it without. This distinction is too narrow for our tastes, which favors seafood chili over any other kind. And where seafood chili is concerned, the critical ingredient is not beans, but mollusks. Some cooks are satisfied with the addition of clams alone, while others toss in scallops—followed by a range of other seafood that includes shrimp and fish of all kinds. more

The Seafood Pantry

A world of flavor possibilities is as close as your kitchen pantry.

If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a thousand times: nothing beats seafood for a quick-cooking, healthy meal. In a matter of ten minutes you have time enough to cook some fish or shellfish, boil pasta, steam vegetables and—presto-chango—you have a delicious, healthy, filling meal on your previously bare table! more