• Home
  • Recipes
    • Crab
    • Lobster
    • Mussels, Oysters, Clams
    • Salmon & Fatty Fish
    • Scallops
    • Seacuterie Boards
    • Seaweed/Kelp
    • Shrimp
    • Squid
    • Swordfish
    • Tinned Fish & Tinned Shellfish
    • Tuna
    • White Fish
    • Whole Fish
    • Non Seafood
  • How Tos
  • Let’s Partner
  • Media
  • About
  • Contact
  • Recipes
  • Seafood How Tos
  • Seafood FAQs
  • Seafood Staples
Jenny Shea Rawn
  • Home
  • Recipes
    • Crab
    • Lobster
    • Mussels, Oysters, Clams
    • Salmon & Fatty Fish
    • Scallops
    • Seacuterie Boards
    • Seaweed/Kelp
    • Shrimp
    • Squid
    • Swordfish
    • Tinned Fish & Tinned Shellfish
    • Tuna
    • White Fish
    • Whole Fish
    • Non Seafood
  • How Tos
  • Let’s Partner
  • Media
  • About
  • Contact
Menu

Healthy Aperture

  • Healthy Aperture

Healthy Aperture

  • by Jenny Shea Rawn MS, MPH, RD
  • March 27, 2018
  • 0

Jenny Shea Rawn MS, MPH, RD

Comments are closed.

Site Search

Generic filters
Exact matches only

MY COOKBOOK

COASTAL KITCHEN
Nourishing Seafood Recipes for Everyday Cooking is available!
BUY NOW!

Coastal Kitchen unlocks the mystery of the sea–– taking the guesswork out of seafood. In this 272-page hardcover cookbook, Jenny Shea Rawn makes it easier for you to select, prepare and cook seafood so that you can create simple, yet elevated, nourishing and healthy seafood meals in your own kitchen. Throughout these pages are seafood tips and tricks, 120+ simple recipes for everyday cooking, and some new and unique ways of serving up seafood – hello seacuterie boards!

Come along on a few New England based tours – a scallop fishing boat, oyster farm, a mussel fishing vessel and cranberry bog – so you can see the food at its source. Whether you live by the sea or just hold the sea close to your heart, Coastal Kitchen will inspire you in the kitchen.

ORDER ON AMAZON
HTML tutorial
ORDER ON BARNES & NOBLE
HTML tutorial

Newsletter

Thank you! You have successfully subscribed to our newsletter.

Newsletter

Don't miss a post! Sign up to receive our newsletter each time a post goes live.

Follow on Instagram

Lobster BLT Board. 💃 Sweet fresh lobster meat, Lobster BLT Board. 💃 Sweet fresh lobster meat, toasted baguette, tomatoes, crisp lettuce, avocado, bacon, basil, mayo, capers and lemon wedges — all displayed beautifully on a seacuterie board for all to assemble their own lobster BLT creations. A great add to your 4th of July menus! 🇺🇸 #mainelife #boothbayharbor #lobsterlove #lobster #seacuterieboard #seacuterie #mainesummer #seafood2xwk #maineseafood #eatmoreseafood #mainelobster
In celebration of Maine strawberry season.♥️🍓 @goransonfarm offered a very rare afternoon of U-pick strawberries, so you betcha we cleared our calendars and made our way to the farm. Good local produce is something I no longer take for granted, especially here in Maine. The season is so short and the flavor is unmatched. Get out there and support your local farms!! #mainelife #localproduce #mainefarms #strawberryseason #strawberryfieldsforever #summerinmaine #strawberryseason #mainetheway
🚤 After 12 (or more?!) consecutive Saturdays of 🚤 After 12 (or more?!) consecutive Saturdays of rain, we finally got a good one. Took the boat out for its first spin of the year. Summer, thanks for finally showing up 🙌. Check out our new friend. 🦭 Oh and boats are never without their own drama, right? Adrian tried to launch the boat twice prior to this trip - electrical and motor issues left him dead in the water. Looks like 3rd time is the charm. 🤞 #mainesummer #mainelife #boothbaymaine #boothbay #boothbayharbor #newenglandlife #mainetheway
A field trip to Belfast, Maine to see @verticalbay A field trip to Belfast, Maine to see @verticalbaymaine sea scallops in action. Incredible. And such a treat to taste them raw - sweet & clean - so tasty! Vertical Bay is one of the only sea scallop farms in the US. The farm is located in Penobscot Bay, off the coast of Belfast. They grow their scallops from wild seed to market size, spending about 3 years in the care of Vertical Bay. The scallops live in nets on the farm for their first year, then they are hung on lines and suspended into the water with plenty of space to grow (this process is called ear-hanging and you’ll see this in the video). Because scallops are filter feeders, they require no feed, fertilizers or inputs. Their food comes from the clean, cold & nutrient-rich bay water. Thank you, Andrew Peters, for welcoming us aboard and teaching us about your scallops. To order sea scallops from Vertical Bay, visit their website: www.verticalbaymaine.com. Every scallop is hand-harvested and shipped all on the same day, so you get the freshest scallops possible. #seascallops #maineseafood #sustainableseafood #newenglandseafood #mainescallops #scallops #newenglandkids #newenglandkidscookbook #mainelife
Life lately. 🌷A field trip to the @coastalmain Life lately. 🌷A field trip to the @coastalmainebotanicalgardens with Lexi’s class. 🐶A visit with our Mimi, PopPop and Josie girl. 🌊Ocean walks with Mimi in winter coats (June in Maine! 🙃) 🎾 Lots of tennis. ⚾️ Baseball games. And even more canceled baseball because of 🌧️. It’s been a good and very busy couple weeks. We are ready for summer break!! #mainelife #boothbay #boothbayharbor #mainesummer
🌱Kelp harvest! Pauline Dion of the @boothbaysea 🌱Kelp harvest! Pauline Dion of the @boothbayseaandsciencecenter and lobsterman Eben Wilson graciously invited us this morning to witness their kelp (seaweed) harvest. We will be featuring kelp in a bunch of recipes in our cookbook, so we were excited to see this harvest in action. Some of the pictures taken today will be featured in the book. Lexi and I watched the kelp being gathered from their lines in East Boothbay, near Ocean Point Marina, on the Damariscotta River. Funny enough, the kelp lines are actually just down the river a short distance from our house. The giant kelp that you see here began as kelp seedlings that were grown on ropes in aquariums by local school kids through a partnership with the Boothbay Sea and Science Center + local schools. The tiny kelp (about an inch is size) were then placed into the river on larger ropes in December of 2024. Today was harvest day and the winter/spring growth of the kelp was incredible! The types of kelp shown here are alaria (great for cooking and drying) and sugar kelp (often used as an additive in foods). This particular batch isn’t for eating because it’s grown too close to the marina (it’ll be used for research), but grown elsewhere it absolutely can be. Thank you Pauline, RC and Eben for showing us the “ropes” today, quite literally!! #kelpharvest #kelpme #maineseaweed #sustainableseafood #maineseafood #eastboothbay #boothbaymaine #mainelife #kidscookbook
Lobster BLT Board. 💃 Sweet fresh lobster meat, Lobster BLT Board. 💃 Sweet fresh lobster meat, toasted baguette, tomatoes, crisp lettuce, avocado, bacon, basil, mayo, capers and lemon wedges — all displayed beautifully on a seacuterie board for all to assemble their own lobster BLT creations. A great add to your 4th of July menus! 🇺🇸 #mainelife #boothbayharbor #lobsterlove #lobster #seacuterieboard #seacuterie #mainesummer #seafood2xwk #maineseafood #eatmoreseafood #mainelobster
In celebration of Maine strawberry season.♥️🍓 @goransonfarm offered a very rare afternoon of U-pick strawberries, so you betcha we cleared our calendars and made our way to the farm. Good local produce is something I no longer take for granted, especially here in Maine. The season is so short and the flavor is unmatched. Get out there and support your local farms!! #mainelife #localproduce #mainefarms #strawberryseason #strawberryfieldsforever #summerinmaine #strawberryseason #mainetheway
🚤 After 12 (or more?!) consecutive Saturdays of 🚤 After 12 (or more?!) consecutive Saturdays of rain, we finally got a good one. Took the boat out for its first spin of the year. Summer, thanks for finally showing up 🙌. Check out our new friend. 🦭 Oh and boats are never without their own drama, right? Adrian tried to launch the boat twice prior to this trip - electrical and motor issues left him dead in the water. Looks like 3rd time is the charm. 🤞 #mainesummer #mainelife #boothbaymaine #boothbay #boothbayharbor #newenglandlife #mainetheway
A field trip to Belfast, Maine to see @verticalbay A field trip to Belfast, Maine to see @verticalbaymaine sea scallops in action. Incredible. And such a treat to taste them raw - sweet & clean - so tasty! Vertical Bay is one of the only sea scallop farms in the US. The farm is located in Penobscot Bay, off the coast of Belfast. They grow their scallops from wild seed to market size, spending about 3 years in the care of Vertical Bay. The scallops live in nets on the farm for their first year, then they are hung on lines and suspended into the water with plenty of space to grow (this process is called ear-hanging and you’ll see this in the video). Because scallops are filter feeders, they require no feed, fertilizers or inputs. Their food comes from the clean, cold & nutrient-rich bay water. Thank you, Andrew Peters, for welcoming us aboard and teaching us about your scallops. To order sea scallops from Vertical Bay, visit their website: www.verticalbaymaine.com. Every scallop is hand-harvested and shipped all on the same day, so you get the freshest scallops possible. #seascallops #maineseafood #sustainableseafood #newenglandseafood #mainescallops #scallops #newenglandkids #newenglandkidscookbook #mainelife
Life lately. 🌷A field trip to the @coastalmain Life lately. 🌷A field trip to the @coastalmainebotanicalgardens with Lexi’s class. 🐶A visit with our Mimi, PopPop and Josie girl. 🌊Ocean walks with Mimi in winter coats (June in Maine! 🙃) 🎾 Lots of tennis. ⚾️ Baseball games. And even more canceled baseball because of 🌧️. It’s been a good and very busy couple weeks. We are ready for summer break!! #mainelife #boothbay #boothbayharbor #mainesummer
🌱Kelp harvest! Pauline Dion of the @boothbaysea 🌱Kelp harvest! Pauline Dion of the @boothbayseaandsciencecenter and lobsterman Eben Wilson graciously invited us this morning to witness their kelp (seaweed) harvest. We will be featuring kelp in a bunch of recipes in our cookbook, so we were excited to see this harvest in action. Some of the pictures taken today will be featured in the book. Lexi and I watched the kelp being gathered from their lines in East Boothbay, near Ocean Point Marina, on the Damariscotta River. Funny enough, the kelp lines are actually just down the river a short distance from our house. The giant kelp that you see here began as kelp seedlings that were grown on ropes in aquariums by local school kids through a partnership with the Boothbay Sea and Science Center + local schools. The tiny kelp (about an inch is size) were then placed into the river on larger ropes in December of 2024. Today was harvest day and the winter/spring growth of the kelp was incredible! The types of kelp shown here are alaria (great for cooking and drying) and sugar kelp (often used as an additive in foods). This particular batch isn’t for eating because it’s grown too close to the marina (it’ll be used for research), but grown elsewhere it absolutely can be. Thank you Pauline, RC and Eben for showing us the “ropes” today, quite literally!! #kelpharvest #kelpme #maineseaweed #sustainableseafood #maineseafood #eastboothbay #boothbaymaine #mainelife #kidscookbook
🎉 Big News! 🎉 Lexi and I are so excited to a 🎉 Big News! 🎉 Lexi and I are so excited to announce that we have been working on a New England inspired kids cookbook, to be published by @globepequot. If you’ve been around here for a while, this should be no surprise to you, as it’s something Lexi has been dreaming up for a couple years. This *hardcover* book will be packed with over 50 kid-friendly, kid-tested, Registered Dietitian approved recipes inspired by the flavors of New England—from lobster sliders and buttery panko baked oysters to wild blueberry pancakes and maple granola. With about 200 pages of hands-on fun, simple instructions, and helpful tips, it’s perfect for little chefs and their grown-ups to cook side-by-side. Whether you live in New England or just love cooking with nourishing, seasonal ingredients, this book will bring family-friendly flavors straight to your kitchen. Lexi and I have been cooking and writing up a storm and will be doing so through the end of the summer when the book is due to our publisher. If all goes smoothly, you should be able to have it in your hands by late summer 2026. Stay tuned for sneak peeks, the cover (!), preorder info, and lots more to come! Thank you in advance for your support! ♥️Jenny and Lexi #NewEnglandKidsCookbook #kidscancook #NewEnglandlife #cookbookauthor #FamilyCooking #newenglandfood #kidsinthekitchen #Kidfriendlyfood #newenglandliving #boothbaymaine #mainelife
We’ve been stuck in the fog for what feels like We’ve been stuck in the fog for what feels like months. The fog rolls in so suddenly around here. And sometimes leaves just as quickly. Enjoy a few moments of this foggy morning down by the river. #boothbaymaine #mainelife #boothbayharbor #damariscottariver #beautifulplaces #mainecoast #coastalliving #newenglandlife
Follow on Instagram
Copyright © 2012 - 2025 - Jenny Shea Rawn - Disclaimer
Site maintained by Carol McLeod Design
We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. By clicking “Accept”, you consent to the use of ALL the cookies.
Cookie settingsACCEPT
Manage consent

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
SAVE & ACCEPT