Whole Roast Trout with Potatoes and Asparagus

A whole roast rainbow trout stuffed with lemons and lemon thyme, roasted with new potatoes and asparagus--per person! A hearty, healthy, fast weeknight feast.

Whole Roasted Fish With Fresh Herbs and Lemon

Roasting fish whole is one of the easiest, most delicious ways to cook it. Cooked on the bone and in its skin, the meat remains more tender and juicy than fillets or steaks do.

Salt-Baked Whole Fish With Fresh Herbs

How (and why) to roast a whole fish in a salt crust, resulting in a fish that's juicer than its plain whole-roasted counterpart.

River Cottage's Grilled Trout with Fennel

In The River Cottage Fish Book, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Nick Fisher offer a slight variation on the standard stuff-the-trout-with-herbs-and-grill-it method. Instead of picking soft, delicate herbs, they call for overgrown, wild fennel. Then, they not only place the floral, herbaceous plant into the fish cavity (with garlic and bay, of course), but also use the woodiest herbs as a kind of grate for cooking the fish. These woody stems smolder as the fish cooks, adding another layer of smok...

Whole Roast Fish for 2 With Mushroom Pesto and Roasted Wild Mushrooms

This is an elegant meal for two, but not too elegant to make at home. A big sea bass or bream, stuffed with mushroom-truffle pesto, full of parsley and basil and pine nuts, and topped with crisp-broiled mushrooms. Who could resist that for dinner?

Roasted Blackfish with Olives and Sage Recipe | Cook the Book

For all of the great-for-you reasons there are to cook fish (healthy! full of omega-3s and vitamins! low fat!), there are an equal number of reasons why many home cooks shy away from our scaly friends from the sea—too delicate, lack of cooking confidence, the stinky factor, and sustainability questions. This Roasted Blackfish with Olives and Sage from Melissa Clark's Cook This Now sets out to calm all of our fish-cooking worries.

French in a Flash: Trout en Papillotte

"Unwrapping the unlucky but delicious trout feels something like Christmas." My grandmother is my own Edith Piaf. Mémé has a voice that trembles on the air, buoyed up by soprano aspirations. It is a beautiful but homemade voice--like a quilt....

Pan-Roasted Whole Branzino

This recipe is incredibly simple, just a stove-to-oven technique with basic herbs.

Salmon with Thyme and Three-Lemon Crème Fraîche

This salmon roasted with lemon and thyme can be served hot or room temperature with a simple sauce of crème fraîche, thyme, and lemon in three forms: zest, juice, and preserved.

Mark Bittman's Roasted Salmon with Butter

Simplicity is Mark Bittman's thing. His recipes might not be ground breakingly new, but they work, and they're solid. He doesn't over think it, case in point, his Roasted Salmon with Butter from How to Cook Everything The Basics is exactly what it sounds like: salmon, butter plus salt and pepper, and a sprinkle of parsley, if you're feeling fancy.