Seafood

Ask your fishmonger to fillet the fish for you, remove the skin and pin bones, then hack up the bones. That’s why they’ve got the waterproof apron and stainless steel equipment back there, right? The size of the individual whole fishes doesn’t matter—just make sure you have about 7 pounds total.

This month, our readers have a creamy wedge salad dressing, a coffee-rubbed steak, and a whole lotta Vegas on the mind.

6 easy steps to making Hawaii in a bowl. Yep: It's tuna poké.

The real key here is to use the best-quality tuna you can find. When in doubt, ask your fishmonger if he would eat it raw. If the answer is no, neither should you.

What makes these crab cakes so good? No filler ingredients and almost no binder, which means it’s all crab, all the time.

If you don’t want to invest in a sizzle platter, you can also make this recipe using a rimmed baking sheet.

The deep-fried squid with aioli is the must-order dish at NYC's Wildair. So we got the chefs to teach us how to make it at home.

De Laurentiis uses Peroni, an Italian beer, for this 20-minute dish, but any light-bodied lager will work and make a perfect drink pairing as well.

You can make the dough, you can buy the dough, or you can simply assemble these same toppings on slices of toasted country-style bread.

How does this remain shatteringly crisp? The secret is hiding in the batter: potato starch and arepa flour, the tickets to everlasting crunchiness.

"Curry" rhymes with "hurry" for a reason. A few shortcut ingredients yield a gently spiced, deep-flavored sauce that’s ready in under an hour.

You can make the sauce the day before, then cook the pasta and seafood the next day to put it all together.

Meet Carrie Pacini, our Readers' Choice Week winner for your best spicy recipe.

You can use kielbasa or any kind of dry-cured pork sausage, but spicy andouille gives this jambalaya a nice kick of heat.

Don't have time to make dinner on crazy weeknights? You obviously haven't met this shrimp curry with chickpeas and cauliflower.

This is the perfect weeknight dinner because it requires very little maintenance and doesn’t take long to put together.

Crispy skin on a fish fillet is a beautiful, beautiful thing.

Casserole so beautiful, you can finally Instagram it without shame.

A highly seasoned broth and robust cashew purée add layered flavor to this warming soup.

Hot tip: Super-fresh eggs are going to be harder to peel than the ones you’ll find at the grocery store.

Pick artichokes with tightly packed, squeaky-firm green leaves and a fresh-looking cut on the stem end.

This recipe makes more bonito butter than you need. Use the smoky, slightly salty mixture to top your next steak, or to sauté greens.

Not to mention it tastes infinitely better than the stuff you'll find at a shopping mall food court.

This preparation is easily scaled up for a bigger piece of fish (and larger family), so double it if you wish.