Order Seafood for Sparkling Holiday Dinners

Seafood is one of the most popular “luxury” foods in the world, and a favorite for holiday dinner parties and special occasions. If you’re planning to serve a seafood recipe for New Years’ Eve or at a Christmas open house, don’t take a chance on quality. Skip the supermarket fish counter and order seafood from a fish market that really knows quality seafood. When you order seafood from a fish market that buys daily from fishermen at the dock, you can be assured of the freshest, highest quality lobsters, halibut, crab, shrimp, salmon and smoked fish available. What could you do with ready access to some of the best fresh seafood available anywhere in the world? How about one of these ideas for sparkling holiday dinners – from soup to main course?

Sushi

Tuna is the most common fish used in sushi, but halibut is rapidly gaining popularity with those on the foodie circuit. The sweet, succulent flesh is the perfect flavor and texture for sashimi and sushi. Try serving sushi rolls as appetizers at your holiday gathering and watch them disappear.

Seafood Puffs

Make up a batch of airy popovers or cream puffs, but instead of filling them with sweet pastry cream, use a seafood-based filling. Smoked fish blends beautifully with cream cheese to create savory melt-in-your-mouth bites of seafood goodness. You can often buy smoked fish that’s been made fresh on premises when you order seafood from an online seafood market.

Lobster Bisque

Turn a first course into a showy, memorable highlight at your next dinner with a delicate lobster bisque. Buy lobster tails – fresh or fresh-frozen – from an online seafood market. Use the shells to flavor a savory bisque broth, and serve it in a soup plate “garnished” with a split grilled lobster tail.

Halibut Steaks

In China, families often serve a large sea fish as New Years’ Day dinner to invite luck and prosperity into their lives. Halibut may not bring you wealth and fortune, but a delicious seared halibut steak will definitely have your dinner guests talking about your skills as a hostess. Halibut’s firm flesh holds up well to most cooking methods, and is especially tasty in seared and blackened dishes. Start a New Years’ tradition when you buy halibut and serve grilled halibut steaks at your New Years’ dinner party.

Those are just a few of the many delicious seafood choices you can serve over the holidays. If you’re buying your seafood from an online market, be sure to order seafood in plenty of time for it to be shipped to you, and follow the instructions on keeping seafood fresh until you’re ready to cook it.