Here’s a look back at the food, cooking, and recipe posts that appeared earlier in the week here on HuggingtheCoast.Com…please join us tomorrow for the start of next week’s exciting food features as we get closer to Valentines Day!

Looking Back: 2/1/2010-2/7/2010

Monday: Bloody Mary Tomato Salad Recipe (Salad Recipe Ideas)

Tuesday: Super Bowl Sausage Rolls Recipe (Party Appetizer Recipes)

Wednesday: 30 Last Minute Super Bowl Party Recipes Your Friends and Family Will Love

Thursday: Creamy Italian Artichoke Soup Recipe (Soup Recipe of the Week)

Friday: Romantic Lobster Tail With Lemon Curry Butter Recipe (Fish For Friday Recipe)

Saturday: Humorous Song About the Secret Life of Monkfish (Weekend Video Spotlight)

Sunday: You are here

Please join us tomorrow to read our new food and cooking article, a recipe for New Orleans Muffuletta Olive Salad.

As Monkfish (also known as Anglerfish) become a popular choice on restaurant menus and supermarket seafood counters, I thought it was high time to share a humorous video I found which will help you get to know more about these delicious enigmas of the deep.

Find out why male monkfish never have to send Valentines cards to their female counterparts, why both should floss, and why neither the male or female monkfish are likely to enter any beauty contests anytime soon.

The answers provided in the wonderfully goofy music video below by YouTube user VlogBrothers might both surprise you and perhaps even cheer you up!

Enjoy! (The music video starts after a 34 second introduction.)

You can see other recent Weekend Video Spotlight Videos here.

You can also see HuggingtheCoast.com’s growing collection of food, cooking, and travel videos here.

Please join us tomorrow to see this week’s Hugging the Coast.Com Week in Review, an overview of last week’s special food features (as well as selected previews from the week to come).

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NOTE: Today is the day of our special Super Bowl Recipe Twitter Marathon where starting at 9AM EST, where we’ll share one delicious recipe an hour at http://twitter.com/huggingthecoast/.

Valentines Day is the perfect excuse to spoil the one you love with something he or she will remember all year long.

This recipe for Lobster Tail With Lemon Curry Butter from the folks at Salt & Turmeric would be great as part of a romantic Valentine’s Day brunch or dinner.

For those that prefer less spice, just reduce the amount of hot chili powder when making the recipe (or omit it altogether).

Ingredients:

1 lobster tail, halved
2 garlic, minced
1 shallot, minced
1/4 tsp hot chili powder
1 tbs curry powder
1/2 stick unsalted butter -softened
1 tbs lemon juice
1/4 tsp salt

How to Make Lobster Tail With Lemon Curry Butter.

Thinking about cooking a whole lobster to celebrate Valentines Day? ZestyCook has some excellent tips to help things go much easier.

Enjoy!

You can also see our list of delicious seafood recipes, organized by type of fish to help you eat more seafood throughout the year.

Also, here’s some convenient links to our first 100 Original Recipes on Hugging the Coast to make it easier for you to find culinary inspiration and ideas.

Please join us tomorrow to see this week’s culinary Weekend Video Spotlight: A Humorous Song About the Secret Life of Monkfish.

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• Weekend Video Spotlight: How to Grill Delicious and Buttery Lobster Tails
• Savory Feta, Shrimp, and Fennel Cheesecake Recipe (Fish For Friday Recipe)

(Photo Credit: All Fish For Friday Recipe of the Week photos are courtesy of the featured blog, in this case Salt & Turmeric.)

Artichokes are a wonderful healing food that are a prominent and tasty part of Mediterranean cuisine. As someone who considers marinated artichoke hearts to be a nearly perfect snack food, I was very happy to have come across the below artichoke soup recipe when my friend on StumbleUpon sent it to me.

(I’m huggingthecoast on StumbleUpon.)

Needless to say, I’m really looking forward to trying this soup which is from the What’s Cookin’ Italian Style Cuisine Food Blog.

One of the interesting things about this artichoke soup recipe is that it’s a nice way to help use up one’s winter stock of canned soup, while the addition of wine, garlic, and heavy cream help add sophistication and flavor depth to the Creamy Italian Artichoke Soup.

Fun food fact about artichokes, according to FoodReference.Com, in 1947 Marilyn Monroe was crowned Artichoke Queen in Castroville, California.

Enjoy!

Ingredients:

4 cans artichoke hearts drained and put through the food processor till pureed
1 clove of minced garlic
1 can of cream of mushroom soup
1 can of cream of chicken soup
1 c. half & half
1 cup heavy cream
2 cups chicken broth
2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. pepper
2 tablespoons romano and parmesan grating cheese
1 stalk of celery chopped fine or through processor
1/4 teaspoon cayenne, black pepper, salt, garlic powder and parsley
1/2 cup Chablis or preferred white wine
2 tablespoons of melted butter or olive oil combined with
1/4 cup Italian flavored bread crumbs mix together well, set aside for topping
1 package shredded mozzarella for garnishing

How to Make Creamy Italian Artichoke Soup.

Also, please don’t forget to follow us on Twitter (if you don’t already) as we prepare to hold a special Super Bowl Recipe Twitter Marathon starting Friday, February 5th at 9AM EST, where we’ll share one delicious recipe an hour at http://twitter.com/huggingthecoast/

You can also see our list of delicious soup recipes, organized by type to help you enjoy more soup recipe ideas throughout the year.

Also, here’s some convenient links to our first 100 Original Recipes on Hugging the Coast to make it easier for you to find culinary inspiration and ideas beyond soup.

Please join us tomorrow to see this week’s Fish For Friday Recipe of the Week: Romantic Lobster Tail With Lemon Curry Butter.

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(Photo Credit: All Soup Recipe of the Week photos are courtesy of the featured blog, in this case, What’s Cookin’ Italian Style Cuisine.)

Here’s a look back at the food, cooking, and recipe posts that appeared earlier in the week here on HuggingtheCoast.Com…please join us tomorrow for the start of next week’s exciting food features!

Looking Back: 1/25/2010-1/31/2010

Monday: Sweet and Salty Butterscotch Flavored Popcorn (Party Appetizer Recipes)

Tuesday: January Adventures in Food Blogging: The Most Popular Recipes and Cooking Articles on Hugging the Coast

Wednesday: Mozzarella Sticks With Buttermilk Dip (Party Appetizer Recipes)

Thursday: 44 Clove Garlic Soup With Parmesan Cheese (Soup Recipe of the Week)

Friday: Florida Crab Cakes Recipe (Fish For Friday Recipe)

Saturday: Easy Guacamole Dip Recipe For Burgers and Chips (Weekend Video Spotlight)

Sunday: You are here

Please join us tomorrow to read our newest daily food and cooking article, Bloody Mary Tomato Salad Recipe.