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Easy Homemade Gravlax: Key Ingredients = Salmon + Time

Slicing Homemade Gravlax

Gravlax, salmon cured in sugar and salt until it is silky smooth, is expensive to buy, but easy to make. Once the fish is filleted, it takes about 10 minutes to put gravlax together. Two or three days later, you’ll have perfectly cured fish.

I make gravlax from sea-caught wild Alaska ...

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Anatomy of a Recipe (with Recipe for Savory Fish Cakes / Ψαροκεφτέδες)

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Before I wrote Tastes Like Home: Mediterranean Cooking in Alaska, I rarely wrote down recipes, though I occasionally made a few notes about what I’d prepared. If I ever went back to the notes, and I rarely did, they were incomprensible, full of half sentences and incomplete thoughts. I could ...

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