It seems an odd name for a food blog but Beyond Salmon (beyondsalmon.blogspot.com), as author Helen Rennie explains, covers many fish in the sea that are often ignored by home cooks. The subtitle reads, 'Everything you ever wanted to know about fish and other musings on all things yummy.' She blogs to 'capture [her] musings on all things fish. The reason ... fish [are] so fascinating is that each has its own personality'. If a salmon were a woman, Rennie writes, it 'would be sexy and flashy with big hips and serious cleavage' while 'halibut would be six-foot tall with slender long arms and legs, and fairly flat chested.'
Fortunately, the blog is more enlightening than that (it's odd to think that, according to Rennie's point of view, if I were a fish, I'd be a very short flounder). She writes about how to skin fish; how to grill it and tell when it's cooked; what types of fish to serve raw; and less-palatable subjects concerning safety, including mercury and parasites that can be found in fish.
In addition to fish, the cooking instructor (based in the American city of Boston) writes about meat, vegetables and dessert, as well as what to cook for babies and how to choose a new stove.
