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My favorite way to cook trout is whole, bone-in, on the grill. The fish are stuffed with sliced lemons and herb sprigs, brushed with oil, and cooked over fairly hot coals until the skin is crisp and the flesh is moist and flaky. Go ahead and gild the lily by adding a sauce. Tom Douglas

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If you don't have the confidence in baking, commit to making the recipe three times. The first two, do it exactly the way I've told you to make it. Twice. The first time you'll screw it up. The second time it will come out pretty good, and then the third time, make your adjustments. Tom Douglas

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I eat out at least once every day. Tom Douglas

Day Every Day Every Once Out Eat Least

I use ginger like garlic. I love it for steaming fish and making barbecue sauces or roasted chicken. Tom Douglas

Love Ginger Like Making Fish Chicken Barbecue Use Garlic

Mastering one recipe is better than mastering too many. Learn something and own it, and you'll feel so much better about it. You'll have more confidence if you've made it five times, and that confidence adds so much fun to cooking. Tom Douglas

There's natural mentoring that goes on in my life every day. Tom Douglas

Life Day Natural Every Day My Life Every Mentoring Goes

Razor clams are large, oblong clams, although not as big as geoducks. Tom Douglas

Big Razor Although Large

Around the time I opened my second restaurant, Etta's, I had just finished judging at the Jack Daniels World Invitational BBQ Championship in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Back home in Seattle, my goal was to recreate the sweet and smoky taste of that BBQ using our local wild king salmon instead of pig. Tom Douglas

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Another way I like to barbecue king salmon is as a whole fish stuffed, literally to the gills, with sweet onions, sliced lemons, and summer sage. Tom Douglas

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When I was young, I would make my parents breakfast in bed on Saturday mornings. Tom Douglas

Parents Young Breakfast Would Mornings Make Bed Saturday

I'm much less shy in conversation than I am on my own. Tom Douglas

Conversation Own My Own Am Than Much Less Shy

I crave my mom's Sloppy Joes. Tom Douglas

Mom Sloppy Crave

Every time you make a fruit crisp for me, you are my favorite person in the world. It's something delicious and warm, right out of the oven. I mean, what more could anyone want? And all you're doing is taking the best fruit of the season, putting a crumb topping on it and putting it in the oven. Tom Douglas

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