Hacked Sous Vide: The Best Black Cod Ever

I don’t always post recipes to this site, but when I do, I post recipes like this. A good friend of mine, Anna Larsen from Eat Retreat, asked if I could write one for her recently founded Sustainable Seafood CSA, Siren SeaSA, and I happily obliged. The recipe below is for Black Cod, one of the wonderful offerings Siren SeaSA provides, and I describe a way to hack a sous vide setup without all the expensive equipment. It’s a great technique for this kind of fish and I hope you’ll give it a whirl. We’ll get to the recipe in a minute, but first a few words about the great stuff Anna is doing out in California.

Siren SeaSA connects young fishermen directly to customers, which encourages the fishermen to continue practicing sustainable fishing methods. Anna supplied all the seafood for Eat Retreat, and I can personally vouch for the gastro-orgasmic inducing powers of this stuff. You’ll never be able to stomach supermarket seafood ever again. On top of all her fishmongeress duties, Anna is also a prolific opera singer, which makes me feel bad because I got to hear her sing at Eat Retreat but she, being one of my roommates, only got to hear me snore. I hope my cooking made up for that awful injustice, and I hope you enjoy this recipe.

If you’re in the Bay Area or love someone who is, please check out Anna’s Siren SeaSA operation and buy a seafood share. Then you’ll be eating tasty seafood like a boss. And now, the recipe…