Brown Rice Salad

I ordered my favorite brown rice from Massa Organics and it arrived in the mail a couple days ago. Massa Organics is a family owned farm in California which produces the nicest brown rice you could imagine.  You have to order it on-line but it is worth the shipping.  As I've written in previous posts, my method of cooking brown rice is different, but produces light, fluffy, and perfect grains of brown rice, not the gooey clumpy type you sometimes get in a rice cooker or on the stove. I use an 8 quart pot, fill it 2/3 of the way with water and bring the water to a boil. I rinse the brown rice, anywhere from 2 cups to a whole...

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Redfish on the halfshell with grilled corn and ginger herb dressing

I happened to walk in the room yesterday when my husband was watching John Besh on PBS. He was cooking grilled redfish with a corn salad.  It looked so good and happened to be from his New Orleans cookbook.  I pulled out my cookbook and saw the recipe.  I knew I would modify it by reducing the amount of oil from 1/2 cup to a couple tablespoons at the most.  I made some other minor changes such as browning the top of the fish.  The ginger herb corn salad is really delicious and would go with fish, beef, chicken, or just by itself. Grilled Redfish on the Half Shell with Grilled Corn and Ginger Herb Dressing Adapted...

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