Martha Stewart Is Obsessed With Grilling Seafood and You Should Be Too

For those just getting into grilling, Stewart recommends starting with something simple and not immediately jumping into a seafood paella. “You could start with a spatchcocked chicken or a small steak -- simple things that aren’t going to fall through the grill," she says. "It’s depressing when you lose your hamburger in a grill."

Stewart then recommends moving to foods like ribs -- “these are delicious cooked outside, but you have to boil them first” -- grilled fruit, and of course an assortment of seafood.

While Stewart is obsessed with grilling food from the ocean, her bestie and cooking show co-host Snoop Dogg wants nothing to do with the stuff. "He’s very fussy," says Stewart. "I like grilling lobsters -- lobsters are one of my favorite things -- but he won’t eat it.”

She adds, “He eats familiar things. He wouldn’t eat a grilled clam, and I think grilled clams are to die for. Grilled oysters, I love; he wouldn’t eat that, either.”

So what would Snoop eat? “A piece of grilled chicken.”

For the non-seafood-averse, here are five Stewart-approved seafood recipes to throw on the grill right now.

Despite Bart and Homer Simpson's insistence, you do make friends with salad, especially if your salad's loaded with grilled scallops and calamari. Fancy shell-shaped bowls optional. Learn how to make it here. 

Tossing out a grilled lobster is an easy way to one-up your neighbor who always brings a pack of hot dogs to the party, and it's just as easy as grilling wieners... though you don't have to kill a hot dog before tossing it on the coals. So there's that. Here's how to do it right. 

How easy is this: Get some clams. Put them on the grill. Watch them pop open. And then throw them in a bucket and everyone thinks you've mastered some lost art of seafood cookery. Follow this one-step recipe to the cookout hall of fame. 

The perfect dish to pair with an outdoor screening of Dumb & Dumber, this pairing of grilled sea bass and okra skewers basically renders any store-bought kebab you're likely to encounter obsolete. Learn to make them right here.

Now that you kind of know what you're doing, it's time to master paella, which you can do with or without a grill... though since this is an article about grilling seafood, you should probably fire up the coals. It's great for serving multiple guests, especially if one of them is Martha Stewart, who really seems to love her some paella. Here's how to make it.