Tag: Christmas Fish

The other morning I was in the Strip District and saw this salted and dried cod. Then I remembered my friend Donna said I could use her photo of her holding a piece which she used to make the Baccala fish for Christmas.

Here’s one recipe roasted with potatoes

Here’s a site with Baccala recipes one with battered fried pieces to one with tomatoes and capers and onions.

Mark Kurlansky wrote a book about Cod

Cod: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FISH THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

“Kurlansky shapes his story around the Basque fisherfolk who, beginning in the Middle Ages, developed the technique of drying and salting cod, and began pushing further and further into the North Atlantic in their search for ever-more abundant fisheries” Kitchen Arts and Letters