An All-American Fish Fry on The Today Show
If you're planning to entertain this weekend, why not prepare an all-American fish fry for your family and friends? A fish fry is a meal containing battered or breaded fried fish - served with traditional sides, such as cole slaw, potatoes, and lots of tartar sauce.
Earlier this week, during my appearance on the The Today Show, I showed how to make this delicious summertime feast. All the recipes are from our July/August issue of "Living" - I hope you have it! Our fish fry included crispy fried fillets, dilled cabbage-and-cucumber slaw, spicy tartar sauce, potato and pickled-beet salad, a blondie ice cream cake, and a sparkling cherry limeade.
I always love my time at The Today Show! I hope you enjoy these photos. And, please watch the entire segment - to see it, just click on this highlighted link to The Today Show web site.
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- Whenever I appear on The Today Show, I get there very early in the morning to go through my segment and to make sure everything I need is on the table.
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- Here is the crew setting everything up. I am at the other end of the table going through the segment with my special projects producer, Judy Morris.
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- All the recipes from this segment are from the July/August issue of our magazine, “Living”. I hope you have your copy – it’s available on newsstands now!
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- The ingredients are all displayed on the table, so everyone can see. These are the ingredients for our fish fry batter and sandwich.
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- Here I am pre-show, cutting up the fish. This recipe calls for three skinless freshwater fish fillets such as trout, perch or walleye, cut into two-inch pieces.
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- We’re using the common sole, Dover sole – sometimes it is also called black sole or lemon sole. It is a flatfish that lives on the sandy or muddy seabed of the Northern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea.
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- I also shared a great slaw recipe from the July/August issue of “Living” – this is an excellent slaw you will love.
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- Here I am on set during the tease to our segment – I am cutting up some cabbage for our dilled cabbage-and-cucumber slaw.
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- The audience is very enthusiastic – it is always nice to see such an energetic crowd gathered for these Today Show segments.
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- Here I am with NBC news anchors, Craig Melvin and Hoda Kotb. I am showing them how to make the fish fry batter. The dry ingredients include flour, cornstarch, baking powder and salt. Watch the segment to find out what special ingredient I use next.
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- The fish is cut into pieces, and then covered in the batter and then dipped into the hot oil until golden brown.
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- Look how beautiful the fish looks after about three-minutes in the hot oil.
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- There is also a camera shooting from above. The camera is attached to a jib – a boom device controlled by a cameraman at the other end. Shooting from this angle captures great video of the process.
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- Craig and Hoda were eager to take the fish to our picnic table where Al Roker, Carson Daly and Savannah Guthrie were seated.
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- Here is another view of the ingredients for our fish fry sandwich – tomatoes, pickled jalapeños, and spicy tartar sauce. You’ll have to see the segment to find out what ingredient I also add that I learned from Snoop Dogg.
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- You can find the recipe for this delicious spicy tartar sauce in the same July/August issue of “Living”. It includes mayonnaise, pickled jalapeños and its brine, lemon zest, and pepper.
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- And here is my sandwich ready to enjoy.
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- We also served a potato and pickled-beet salad and our dilled-cabbage-and-cucumber slaw.
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- Plus this sparkling cherry limeade – this drink is so refreshing.
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- For dessert, we had a blondie ice cream cake. Hoda, Savannah, Craig, Carson and I had such a wonderful time – everyone loved our take on the summer fish fry. I know you will too!
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