COOKING SEAFOOD2: Cooking with and learning about 
seafood--both easier than you think on Passport to Texas

This is Passport to Texas

We love seafood, but when it comes to cooking it -- most 
of us leave that to the professionals. 

06 -- Because a lot of people are intimidated [by] seafood. They 
have this impression that it's hard to cook. 

But it's not, says Rhonda Cummins with Texas AgriLife 
and Texas Sea Grant. Whether you harvest it yourself or 
pick up fresh fish from a local market, seafood is easier 
to prepare than you realize. 
 
06 -- If you can master just a couple of quick easy [techniques] 
in the kitchen, you can cook seafood at home

The FREE monthly Cooking with Seafood classes Rhonda 
coordinates provide attendees the skills they need to 
prepare fresh seafood at home. Volunteer cooks teach 
demos, while fisheries biologists and others talk about 
the resource. 

11 -- Sometimes I have to put the meal on hold because they're 
still asking questions to the presenter. They're coming to learn. 
I actually believe that it's become more about interesting topics 
than about the food.
 
But there is food. The next FREE Cooking with Seafood 
class is Monday April 13 at the Calhoun County 
Fairgrounds outside Port Lavaca, and will include some 
combination of oysters, crabs, shrimp and fish.

14 -- The basic concept of the evening is going to be, you've 
harvested it, or you have bought it in its almost natural state at 
the fish market -- what do you do with it next? So, we want to 
teach them some basic cleaning techniques and then cooking 
techniques.

Find out how you can attend at passporttotexas.org. The 
SF restoration program supports our series. For Texas 
Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti. 

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