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Recipes using fish and seafood as the main ingredient

Close Up of Seared Amberjack Fish On A white plate on a bed of white pole beans.

Living on the Atlantic coast makes fish and seafood one of the primary, fresh and sustainable ingredients available.  And what an abundance of deliciousness!

Living in Charleston has serious fresh shrimp advantages.  My favorite seafood is shrimp and I love creating, testing, and tasting shrimp recipes.  Check out these shrimp recipes:

  • Simple Pan Seared Shrimp with Butter
  • The Best Shrimp And Grits
  • Cold Shrimp Salad
  • Shrimp Creole and Rice

Whether you're craving an elegant dish like seared scallops, or something savory like Crab Cakes, or perhaps a Lowcountry staple like Lemon Butter Amberjack or Lemon Baked Triggerfish,  or simple Poached Salmon take a look to find a delicious seafood recipe.

Roast Salmon with Buttery Leeks On Top In a Stainless Steel Pan - Eat Simple Food

Roast Salmon with Buttery Leeks

Shrimp laying on top of farro, pistachios, and sliced radishes. Garnished with fresh green herbs, sliced green onions, and grated parmesan cheese.

Shrimp and Farro Salad

3 pieces of poached salmon on a platter surrounded by asparagus, quartered cherry tomatoes, walnuts, and lemon slices. Topped with Tzatziki Sauce

Poached Salmon with Tzatziki Sauce

Bouillabaisse (Fish or Seafood Stew) In a white bowl with clams, shrimp, and chunks of white fish in a yellow red delicate sauce.

French Bouillabaisse (Fish Stew / Soup)

Five poached pink shrimp on a little tan plate with a wedged lemon. Poached shrimp in a blue bowl on the side and also layed over some cups in the background. Lemon wedges in the background.

Simple and Easy Poached Shrimp

White tea chup with 3 poached shrimp and a lemon wedge on the edge with cocktail sauce in the cup. Close up.

Easy Homemade Cocktail Sauce

Crispy pan seared shrimp close up in a black pan with brown bits and fond stuck to the shrimp and pan. Closer up.

Easy Pan Seared Shrimp with Butter

Shrimp In A Dark Roux With red and yellow peppers on yellow grits on a white plate.

The Best Lowcountry Shrimp and Grits

Small Potatoes, Shrimp, Sliced Andouille Sausage, Corn cooked and laid out on craft brown paper. Close up.

Easy Low Country Boil

Side view of pan seared white fish with red romesco sauce drizzled on the top. Fish spatula on plate.

Pan Fried Grouper with Romesco Sauce

Sauteed Shrimp In A Red/Brown Butter & Worcestershire Sauce In A White Bowl with a Spoon.

Buttery Shrimp with Worcestershire Sauce

5 Seared Scallops In A Bowl With a Light Layer Of Roasted Sweet Potato Puree

Scallops In Roast Sweet Potato Puree

White rectangle plate of smoked salmon cucumber rounds with capers, onions, and chopped dill and parsley. Top view.

Smoked Salmon Cucumber Bites Appetizer

White Shallow Bowl Filled with Tomato Based Red Stew with carrots, shrimp, and clams.

Classic Cioppino (Fish Stew)

Top view. 2 fillets of white fish in a lemon butter sauce with thin sliced lemons over the top of the fish and a chopped parsley garnish.

Lemon Butter Triggerfish

Top down view of cooked scallops on a brown plate in a brown orange sauce.

Sticky Scallops with Orange Soy Sauce Glaze

One piece of cooked salmon on a white plate. Salmon is topped with a lemon zest butter and fresh thyme. On a white plate with colorful napkin on the side. Close up.

Easy Baked Lemon Butter Salmon

2 pieces of raw salmon fillets on an aluminum sheet pan with asparagus, sliced red peppers, and halved cherry tomatoes.

Simple Sheet Pan Mediterranean Salmon

Two seared pieces of fish on a bed of ceviche salad (avocado, tomatoes, green onion, orange peppers. Top view with white plate

Seared Little Tunny (False Albacore) with Ceviche Salad

4 salmon fillets topped with sliced green olives, toasted sliced almonds, and parsley tapenade on a white rectangle plate with 4 lemon wedges.

Baked Salmon with Green Olive and Almond Tapenade

Cooked shrimp in a deep plate with halved cherry tomatoes and basil pesto. Garnished with Pine nuts.

Shrimp with Basil Pesto and Cherry Tomatoes

5 scallops on a white plate with 2 lemon wedges. One scallop is cut in half and has a fork sticking in it.

Easy Seared Scallops with Butter

3 Cooked Pan Fried Easy Crab Cakes Recipe On White Plates. Side View.

Perfect and Easy Crab Cakes

1 piece of cooked salmon topped with 3 lemon slices and chopped dill on a bed of asparagus.

Easy Oven Baked Lemon Dill Salmon

1 piece of salmon spiced with lime, paprika, and cumin on a bed of greens on a white plate

Salmon with Cumin, Paprika, and Lime

2 plates of swordfish garnished with chunks of peach and pecan salsa over a bed of romaine lettuce with cherry tomatoes. Close up.

Swordfish with Peach Pecan Salsa

Top view of a small white bowl of ceviche (diced white fish, red onions, yellow and red peppers, lime juice, and cilantro) with 3 crackers sticking out of bowl.

Fresh Amberjack Ceviche Summer!

Close Up of Seared Amberjack Fish On A white plate on a bed of white pole beans.

Lemon Butter Amberjack Fish

Salmon on square plate with ginger & soy sauce over a bed of shelled edamame - Eat Simple Food

Baked Salmon with Honey Soy Sauce Glaze

Top down view of open clams and sausage in sauce in a green bowl with a baguette on the side.

Clams and Chorizo in White Wine Sauce

Lemon Shrimp, Capers, halved cherry tomatoes with sliced green onions over wild rice. Almond and Parmesan cheese garnish.

Lemon Shrimp And Cherry Tomatoes

Wood plate full of BBQ Shrimp with a Lemon Garlic Sauce over a bed of greens.

Grilled Shrimp with Lemon Butter Sauce

Shrimp and Chorizo Stew w Potatoes and Corn Recipe in A White Bowl - Eat Simple Food

Shrimp and Chorizo Stew with Kale

White bowl of shrimp in red tomato sauce over white rice and garnished with peppers and chopped celery leaves.

Easy Shrimp Creole with Rice

Shrimp Salad w/ Horseradish, Chives, Lemon In A White Bowl.

Simple and Easy Cold Shrimp Salad

Grilled Grouper Collar (Fish Neck) on a white plate with grilled pineapple rounds. Another plate out of focus in the background.

Grouper Collars (AKA Fish Collars)

Baked Amberjack White Fish with Thyme Laying On a Green Banana Leaf On A Wood Plate

Amberjack en Papillote

Cooked Pickled Shrimp with thin sliced onions In a blue bowl with a spoon sticking out. 2 wood bowls with small forks on the side. close up.

Lowcountry Quick Pickled Shrimp

2 soft shell tacos on a plate filled with fresh red tomatoes, guacamole, cabbage slaw with 2 wedges of lime and black beans on the side.

Healthy Red Snapper Fish Tacos

Whole Fish on a platter sitting on white rice and green beans. Topped with Orange sauce and garnished with sliced green onions.

Orange, Ginger, and Soy Sauce Sea Bass

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I’m Beckie Hemmerling. I love food and I think of it on a basic level of providing strength & nourishment. Cooking has helped me *try* to figure out life, not just my own, but also other people's. I have cooked through many joys / sorrows and cooking has always been a meditative place through these highs & lows. More background info →

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