If you've ever visited an Italian market and wondered what the dried fish "salt cod" - also known as baccale -is used for, you wouldn't be alone. What good could come from a fish as dry as a wooden ...

1. Place the salt cod into a bowl and cover with cold water. Refrigerate for 8 hours. Pour off the water and replace with fresh water every 2 hours. After the fish has soaked for 8 hours, rinse in ...

Some things our mothers teach us are concrete: How to drive a car, read a W-2 form or hem a pair of pants. Other life lessons sneak up on us. My mother taught me to cook almost by osmosis. It was ...

New England has a long history of fish cakes for supper, first made with salt cod, and later with leftover cod or haddock. The idea is that you can stretch the fish by mixing it with mashed potato and ...

If ever a food needed a brand overhaul, it is salt cod. Because nothing about that name inspires cravings. It actually sounds like something you spread on an icy walkway to keep people from slipping.

Ina Garten combines cod and lobster to make Fish and Lobster Cakes. She gets lobster meat, already cooked, from her local seafood shop. Garten serves them with a mayonnaise-based sauce she makes in a ...

It's finally Friday, so why not have some fish for dinner? Try making Rick Stein's simple Scandinavian cod fish cakes - or 'frikadeller,' for a deliciously quick meal after work. Serving four, it's a ...