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While working overseas, we often used puff pastry to serve with several dishes, including fish. Puff pastry is basically created by rolling out pastry dough and then adding room-temperature butter followed by a system of folding over and rolling the mixture out in order to form several thin layers of butter and dough. The layered butter is what puffs up the dough when baked. The butter heats up, releases steam and pushes up the layers of pastry, which gives you a soft, buttery-baked pastry. Read More

I took a longtime client from the hotel out to try our luck with the local yellowtail bite that has been consistent down south of the border 25 miles from San Diego.  We left the dock in the ever-trusty Boston Whaler at 4 a.m., picked up a beautiful scoop of bait from the Everingham Bait Company that had a mix of lively sardines and the yellowtail's favorite snack - mackerel!  We had not even left San Diego harbor and my confidence was sky high.  I am a firm supporter in Tred Barta's idea that a strong belief in envisioning a fruitful day will bring success  And most imp Read More