The giveaway entry period is now closed. Thanks so much to all who participated! We’ll be picking a winner so stop back in a bit to find out…
We sort of don’t want to give this book away.
Because it’s going to cost us an arm and a leg to ship it to the winner.
Ralph Brennan’s New Orleans Seafood Cookbook is big. No, it’s huge. With close to 450 pages, it’s more dense with recipes than any of the giant cookbooks by Thomas Keller (which we use as a barometer for cookbook sizing).
However, beyond the fact that the coffee table book-sized cookbook is big enough to be a coffee table itself, we wouldn’t mind keeping it in the TasteSpotting Kitchen as a seafood reference (that includes alligator, frog legs and turles!) and recipe tour through New Orleans starting with appetizers like Barbecued Oysters with Blue Cheese Sauce (!!!), through signature dishes like Gumbo, Jambalaya and Shrimp Creole, to refined preparations of fish, and ending in grand finale with a flaming Cafe Brulot Diabolique cocktail.
That’s right. Cocktails come last because the chapter on Desserts comes before the Side Dishes.
See why we love the book?
How to Enter this Giveaway
This is a quick and easy giveaway. There is one step:
Leave a comment on this post with your favorite SEAFOOD dish.
Don’t worry if you don’t “do seafood” (though we wonder what you will do with the book if you win it); just make something up. It doesn’t actually matter what you say since we’re going to pick the “winner” randomly, it only matters that you do comment, and that you do by the deadline, midnight Sunday December 12. Make sure to enter your email address in the space provided address so we can contact you if you’re chosen!
Just to get things started, we’ll go first.
We know it’s nowhere near New Orleans, but we will always and forever love a good piece of sushi.
Good luck!
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Pan-seared Sea Bass!
smoked salmon
I’m lucky enough to live in New Orleans at the moment, actually, and there’s all kinds of lovely seafood here. Deep fried oysters have got to be my absolute favorite though.
Moules marinere
this book is going to look gorgeous on my coffee table
Fave seafood includes anything with uni, and then sitting down to a seafood boil – crabs, crawfish, shrimp, almost anything – and just digging in with lots of limes, mayo/aioli, salt and pepper.
Simple shrimp, boiled in beer and bay seasoning. YUM.
I actually don’t DO seafood, per se. But my wife does. As does my kid. And my MIL. But since I abhor the rather LARGE and iron-y taste that seafood most often has, I do not know how to cook it. I have cooked it before for my family, just not very often. I am no good. I mostly have only cooked with shrimp and tuna (not the canned kind). But I am always willing to try something if I am out, or at someone’s house who is cooking. I just have not {yet} found something that I would order/eat/make/ask for on my own. Perhaps this cookbook could change all that. And, oh yeah, living on the east coast where fresh seafood is plentiful and has a different taste than what I am used to.
As a Louisiana girl this would be heaven to have this cookbook. LOVE seafood. Favorite Seafood dish would have to be Shrimp Creole, oh,no wait. Crab Monica. Eh, no, eh Seafood Gumbo. Ah, shucks, I just love to cook with seafood.
I love this tilapia the husband came up with that’s marinated in and served with a nice salsa. Yeeeeuuum. *in a furby sort of way*
Mmmm seafood. Yes please. My favorite would have to be a simple seared scallop.
My favourite seafood to eat would have to be Har Gow at dim sum, My seafood to make would have to be the salmon in the dishwasher, which never ceases to amaze folk.
grilled sea scallops with boiled red potatoes and steamed greenbeans
Spaghetti w/ uni, crab, tomato, basil
I LOVE a good southern seafood boil; whether it’s crabs, crawfish, gulf shrimp – doesn’t matter to me!
Seafood Arrabbiata…with Scallops, shrimp, clams and mussels! Mmm so good!
Raw Oysterrrrr!! ( :
Fried Oyster and Scallops are my fav. :D
blue crabs, steamed, with butter on toast
Growing up on Clearwater Beach, Fl made me a diehard seafood fanatic! I could eat sfood from the sea every day of my life from here on out and I would die happy! My favorite dish as of late would be bacon-wrapped sea scallops with a pomegranate reduction sauce. Unbelievable flavor here!! Let me know if you’d like my personal recipe!
What seafood dish isn’t my favourite would be a more apt questions but in the spirit of the game, I’ll say Thai style fish soup.
Steamed oysters caught just miles from my house in Charleston, SC. Always freshly caught this morning this time of year. In fact I’m off to get some now!
OH, and those oysters in oyster shooters with homemade pepper vodka!
Norwegian seafood stew!
My husband would love this cookboook! My favorite seafood is shrimp…fried, cocktail, garlic, any way is fine with me!
pan-seared tuna with onions and capers
Linguine al vongole, Rosso or bianco – Rosso a slight favourite !!
I could live on seafood alone. Favorite: Crab Etouffe
This cookbook would be the best gift I’ve ever received.
pecan crusted catfish.
Steamed Maine lobster with butter and lemon. Or lemony butter.
Raw oysters!!! and you know the best and biggest ones come from NOLA.
Love Sushi! I keep a tube of wasabi in my purse just in case (some of the supermarket sushi doesn’t come with wasabi – what is with that?)
I guess I have to say boiled lobster, served very simply with some garlic butter. At least, that is if I leave out all the fish recipes, cause I’d be unable to choose one. The coconut milk, tomato and coriander tilapia filets my mother made last summer is up there among the first too, though.
My favorite seafood dish is almond-crusted swordfish, served with white asparagus and garlic mashed potatoes.
Singapore Chilli crab! Especially all that spicy sauce that you scoop up with fried buns. :)
My Indian mom makes the BEST crab curry. It’s spicy, rich, and full of crab. Definitely my last meal if I were to be on death row.
my favorite seafood dish is thai seafood red curry. I love the mixed seafood with the coconut milk curry, It’s so tangy with a bit of a kick. I also love sushi of course.
I love raw oysters- when they’re really good, they are the essence of the ocean!
I love good, thinly sliced nova on a bagel! YUM!
Crawfish etouffee!
grilled lobster tail!
Grilled octopus…in Greece…sitting by the water.
Salmon Fish Curry…
My boyfriend and I lived in New Orleans for 4 years and we LOVEEEE the cuisine, especially the seafood. I have two favorite seafood dishes: Shrimp Po-Boys (from only the best, Domilises) and Seared Tuna. My boyfriend is more of a seafood fan than I am and his favorite dish is Shrimp Creole. This cookbook would be amazing since we constantly crave NOLA food!
My favorite recipe is Maryland crab cakes w/ slaw, on saline crackers! It doesn’t get much better!!!
Shrimp Scampi! Delish! Simple and easy, what can beat that?
I love Lobster Risotto!
Favorite? Possibly salmon burgers with a thick sauce, but it would be a hard decision to make…..
Will always love a good warming mussel stew!
anything with salmon…mmm
sashimi, grilled, yum
Blackened salmon
Miso-glazed sea bass. They do that in NOLA, don’t they? :)
Grilled salmon!! YUMM!
We are going to New Orleans for christmas this year so I would really love this book lol!
I love seafood. I love just plain king crab legs, I don’t even need any butter. I love a good, seared scallop or sea bass with a green curry sauce would be nice right about now.
Being a culinary student currently and trying to get my hands on as many things to read, taste, review, try, and learn, it would be a real pleasure to have this book, especially on a subject of which I love dearly but know almost nothing about personally (the shame.)
I love seafood with all my heart, and my favorite meal of all time has to be when I enjoyed my first encounter with Monkfish. Such an ugly, unflattering, and intimidating fish, but the taste was absolutely sinful – sweet and succulent like lobster. It was served with a Parmesan risotto, and the saltiness paired oh so nicely with the sweet tender fish. For sure my favorite seafood dish.
My favorite seafood dish is Paella. Second favorite is scallops!
Love seafood. Pan seared scallops with wild mushrooms is my new favorite.
It would have to be a toss up between a low country (shrimp) boil or baked salmon
I love some trout almondine!
salmon! as long as its moist, which i unfortunately do not know how to prepare. but i do also love sushi!
Dungeness Crab Bisque
Steamed butter clams!
I love seafood paella!
Seafood linguine with a cream sauce.
Pan-seared scallops with sun-dried tomato beurre blanc
I love deep fried butterfly shrimp…..good love everyone !
I love so many seafood dishes I could practically write a musical about them, but I’ll spare everyone and just say crabcakes. Come to think of it, I’ve tried so many crabcakes I could probably even come up with a song on them alone…
baked cheesey lobster!
Grilled spicy shrimp!
I love love love sushi! Can’t get enough of it!
A close second: fried calamari, or boiled whole lobster dipped in garlic butter…
love seafood this looks wonderful
Raw Kumamoto Oysters
My dad’s famous “brodetto”, which is a northern Italian version of boullabaisse. It’s made with lobster, scallops, salmon and any other shellfish, in a light tomato sauce. Filled with flavor! Have it with a side of polenta or linguini. My favorite is polenta… yummmm.
My favorite seafood is AHI
lobster ravioli
court boullion
Steamers (that’s New England for ‘clams) fresh in the bucket with melted butter. Nothin’ better or more simple than that.
Tuna tataki, when done right – it’s definitely the winner.
Does sashimi count? ;)
I LOVE seafood pasta!! Or fresh Alaskan halibut with spinach and feta!
Seafood Jambalaya, of course!!!
This is a tough one because I am such a seafood lover. My favorite seafood dish is a good old fashion shrimp and crab boil. Sitting around cracking shells leaves plenty of time for stories, laughter, and fun.
Crawfish Etouffee – my dad worked at Brennan’s when he first got out of the army, back in the 50s or 60s.
pan-seared tuna
Kerala Fish Curry….soooo good!!! Spicy, sour, salty..umami in one word! I miss my mom’s curry. Awesome give away by the way :)
GUMBO
Paella!
Lobster Bisque
Shrimp anything….cocktail, fettucine, salad, in a dip, fried, sauteed, hot, cold, in a boil. Now I want shrimp.
So hard to choose.
But if I have to pick …
no pressure.
I can do this.
um .
uhhhh …
octopus in a vinegar sauce.
Ate it at a restaurant called Hanabi.
Was to die for.
Oh man, this would be a treat! I know you guys said it, but I adore sushi so much, I don’t even care! Especially any roll with shrimp and avocado. <3
Crab cakes with aiolli, baby!
filipino dish – seafood sinigang
you’ve got to try miso marinated broiled cod. it’s fantastic!
An authentic crawfish boil
The crab crepe at Brennan’s is to die for!
Coconut mussel stew – mmmmmm!
baked or raw oysters :)
Oysters Rockefeller
miso glazed sea bass or cod, also bacon wrapped scallops…mmmMMmm
Stuffed squid
mussels in white wine sauce :]
It has to be steamed sea bass. In Singapore and most decent Chinese restaurants (I think Teochew and Cantonese ones), they would steam a fresh sea bass with nothing more than light soy sauce and ginger, and then finishing it off with some spring onions and/or coriander on top with a dash of sesame oil. The light soy sauce isn’t over powering and it compliments the natural sweetness of the bass. It in fact brings it out more! The sesame oil seals the favor. The greens livens the bass. Such a simple dish and it beats any pan fried bass served in michelin restaurants. I miss home now.
raw oysters
Uh that’s a hard one, I love seefood in any form! But I think if I had to choose that would be Vietnameese caramel shrimps!
fresh oysters with garlic sauce roasted over hot coals
Marinated tuna from the lovely island of Sardinia.
born & raised in New Orleans,
I’d have to say a
good seafood boil among friends
& family has always been my fav
esp. When crawdaddys are on
the menu!
Seafood pasta!
Bouillabaisse
paella
paella for sure
Fritto Misto! Only done well in Italy so a very uncommon treat.
MD crabcakes
Ahhh….a lobster ravioli in a vanilla butter sauce over looking the ocean in Rhode Island!
i love hokkaiyaki!
Shrimp Creole…….it’s the best!
RW
Steamed fresh mantis prawn, or just fresh oyster, as it is.
Fresh cracked Dungeness crab and hot sourdough bread.
Fried oyster po boy, with a spicy home-made mayonnaise.
So yummy !
Raw Oysters on the half shell
My family is from NOLA and the Brennan’s are the know-it-alls (in a good way!) on cajun cuisine. Seeing this book cover made my mouth water.
Fav dish? Can’t go wrong with a classic crawfish boil or steamed clams with butter, garlic and of course french bread. Laissez les bon temps roulez!
Pan seared scallops topped with fried crawfish
good ole GUMBO!
My answer would likely fluctuate daily– hard to name a true fave, but today it’s Cajun Shrimp w/ saffron rice.
Stuffed Quahogs from my home state of RI! With some New England Chowder and clam cakes.
Citrus cured salmon
My favorite seafood dish is shrimp scampi.
My favorite seafood dish changes depending on my mood as well…today, it’s blackened redfish. With a side of dirty rice. And a lemon wedge for extra acid. Ok fine, just a plain blackened redfish will make my heart skip a beat.
Shrimp on rosemary branch skewers — simply grilled on the barbecue
raw oysters
CRAWFISH ETTOUFFEEEEEEEEE.
Nothinh is better than deep fried breaded shimp or oysters.
caramelized shrimp and shallots in vietnamese crab noodle soup.
Nothing is better than deep fried breaded shimp or oysters.
Oh, the book looks amazing! After hiking through Cinque Terre a couple of months ago, my new favorite has to be fresh, perfectly seasoned seafood risotto with mussels, clams and prawns. Yum.
to narro it down to one dish is a challenge in itself. But if I had to choose it would have to be saltfish and ackee. Now I must say it is a simple dish of salted cod soaked in water to remove the salt, after the salt is removed it is sauteed with onions, tomatoes, bellpeppers, ackee (jamaican fruit), you eat it with a nice hot roti or pan fried bread and when you are sitting on the beach with your toes in the sand watching the beautiful beach of jamaica there is no better fish dish in the world.
Hands down, SEAFOOD GUMBO! Yeah baby! : )
Miso-glazed salmon wrapped in nori!
moules-frites!
I love seafood–we eat it all the time, but I’m sadly relegated to the frozen kind, since we’re in an urban area of the Midwest. When I go back home to the East Coast, though I scarf up all of the crab and lobster rolls I can. This cookbook looks amazing!
I love seafood jambalaya!
Roasted Garlic Crab!!!
Steamed Crabs rubbed with spices and dipped in butter. mmmmmmmmm.
Oysters!
Pan Seared Scallops all the way!
Also, you should just ship the book media mail when you are at the post office. Same packaging, same place to drop it off, but when you hand it to the clerk they’ll give you the media mail price if you ask for it. I’ve never had anything cost over $5. Such a great deal!
Seafood gumbo!
Crawfish etouffe! C’est bon!
Cioppino!
steamed lobster dipped in butter!
Lobster Beignets and Turtle Soup. Gotsta git me some!
Garlic jumbo prawns… YUM!! I do wish I win this book because I have to get over my fear of seafood cooking!
Shrimp PoBoys!
smoked salmon!!
Crawfish etouffee, which would be my last meal made fresh on the bayou with my family
Casino, hands down, always.
Home-grilled oysters and a cold beer while sitting on the deck!
Baked salmon with garlic butter and roasted onions! I’m not a very fussy cook so it’s perfect and easy for me and so delicious.
With good seafood, simple is best….steamed crab legs.
Shrimp stuffed with goat cheese wrapped in Prociutto….swoon worthy.
Fish and Chips!
Having grown up near the Chesapeake Bay, my absolute favorite seafood recipe is homemade Maryland Blue Crab Cakes.
Pan seared halibut
Shrimps :) (and all the rest seafood) :)
Broiled lobster tail with drawn butter
I love seafood and it’s sure hard to pick just one favorite but I do love crabs!
My husbands grandfather’s seafood cioppino, it was the best in the world and I’m so glad he handed me the recipe before he passed away two years ago. Every time we make it we think of him!
Seafood Paella for sure.
My favorite seafood dish is Ca Kho (Braised Catfish in Vietnamese Fish Sauce)
crab filled ravioli home made ( with a white cream sauce)
Can I list three?
1) Good solid hamachi or toro sushi
2) There is a chinese dish with clams and minced pork that is delicious, but I have no idea what it’s called
3) Mussels in red curry
something fresh, marinated in lemon/olive oil/garlic, sprinkled with breadcrumbs and barbequed. or a really good crab cake with remoulade.
Crawfish Ettouffee
raw mackerel nigiri with shiso leaf
lobster bisque!
Bouillabaisse.
I like salted egg yolk crab. It’s a very chinese dish.
paella!
I love clam chowder.
thick shrimp soup
Coconut shrimp!
Lobster!
I studied in italy for a year, and my host mothers frutti di mare is definitely at the top of my list, and i’m never one to pass up clam linguine, or straight steamed mussels with butter.
Fried Oysters!!!!!!
Broiled Salmon with Curried Mango Chutney.
I make it for my mom and I all the time.
Any sort of pasta dish with a mix of fresh oysters, crab, squid, shrimp, scallops! YUM!
Every year on New Year Eve my mom makes the BEST bouillabaisse. So amazing, it’s one of my favorite meals of the whole entire year!
Jambalaya with lots of shrimp!
This would make the perfect Christmas gift for my sister! It’s beautiful! Thank you for making this wonderful offer!
i love fried tilapia!
:) gretchenrae
Ceviche: Conch, Halibut, Scallop, Tuna…any of them! Preferably with lots of fun herbs and some fruit to balance it out.
shrimp etouffe
Shrimp and broccoli mac n’ cheese!
Raw Salmon
It’s tough to pick one dish, but I’m going to have to go with Kung Pao Shrimp. Or Honey-Dijon Salmon. Or a Tuna and Bean Salad.
I am glad I was able to travel up to Seattle this year and to try their raw oysters. Foodgasm in every oyster!!!
Duuuuude, this is making me terribly hungry now.
I love hot smoked salmon. Garlic butter shrimp too.
I am a newbie to the Pacific Northwest, and to Culinary Arts School and am LOVING the local seafood. My boyfriends mom makes the BEST crab and corn chowder….someday I’ll attempt it too!
My favorite seafood is miso marinated New Zealand Salmon because it is so fatty and the meat is delicious and melts in my mouth!
Sauteed mussles with white wine sauce. The problem is I can never make it taste even close to a good restaurant. Mussles always end up tasting rubbery or not fresh.
I love simple grilled prawns!
sushi it is!
Sooo tough to choose, but… tuna tataki.
sushi!
Love this quick fish picatta!!! Check it out!
http://thejewishhostess.com/2010/12/quick-fish-piccata-by-joanie-safdie/
Seafood Bisque!
This cookbook is an encyclopedia of cajun and creole cooking. You can almost smell the French Quarter by looking at the pictures.
Baked whole fish with cilantro