On Deck with Kathleen's Catch: New Year, Healthy Recipes, and Oysters Rockefeller

Happy Friday from the Catch Crew!

Healthy Recipes for the New Year

Is one of your goals to eat healthier this year? Did you indulge too much over the holidays? If you're ready to get your health back on track, start with seafood! Studies show that eating fatty fish twice a week reduces the risk of dying of heart disease by 36%. 36%!!! And seafood provides other benefits as well such as vitamin D, selenium, and high levels of protein.

Two of the reasons for generally low seafood consumption in the US are 1. limited access to quality seafood and 2. uncertainty about how to cook seafood. If you are reading this you must have some appreciation for your access to the best seafood in the area. And if not - well hi, hellooooo!! We are right here in your neighborhood selling nothing but the very best products available.

If you live nearby and are able, stop in and pick up your seafood twice or more a week. If it is out of the way for you, come by once and pick up two meals. Our fish is never frozen so it won't hurt to put a piece in the freezer for a few days.

As far as uncertainty about how to cook it, just ask us! We know! We've put a ton of new recipes on the website here to help stir up some inspiration like these pictured below:

Red Grouper with Ginger and Coconut Curry

Chilean Sea Bass Florentine

National Oysters Rockefeller Day

It's January 10th! What a fun day to celebrate and it gives you something to look forward to on a boring ol' Monday.

Oysters Rockefeller was created in 1889 at the New Orleans restaurant Anotine's by Jules Alciatore, son of founder Anotine Alciatore. Jules developed the dish due to a shortage of escargot, substituting the locally available oysters and the recipe remains unchanged, with an estimated three and a half million orders having been served!

The dish was named after John D. Rockefeller, the then-wealthiest American, for its extreme richness. It consists of oysters on the half-shell topped with a green sauce and bread crumbs, then baked or broiled. Though the original sauce recipe is a secret, it includes a purée of a number of green vegetables that may include spinach.

Similar versions of the dish have proliferated in New Orleans, with none noted as an accurate duplicate. Chef Alton Brown states in the "Shell Game" episode of his Food Network series Good Eats that Alciatore took his recipe to the grave and any version since is merely an assumption.

While it may not be the original recipe, here's one of ours! To make it even easier, we finally have our frozen half shell oysters back in stock - each tray comes with a dozen shucked oysters. They are great for baking and grilling.