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Busy day, today. Woke up late--I'd been drinking and Rebecca had an Ambien--fed the cats, threw on some clothes, and hustled out to St. Paul before the farmer's market closed. We got there in time to load up on chicken parts and veggies and, most important of all, the locally raised trout. My gods,...
The weather's cooled down just enough to make dining outside a pleasant experience, so that means hitting the grill. Here's the rundown: First Course: Wood-roasted gulf oysters with citrus, garlic, cracked red pepper. Totally stole this one from Cochon in New Orleans. Probably my favorite restaurant...
Anyone for teriyaki extra-crispy?
It's been way too long since I did burgers. Part of the reason for that, is that I wanted to bake my own buns the next time, but I just never got around to that part... So I just used commercial buns. Sadly, I screwed up by not checking the state of the lettuce, and it turned out to have gone bad,...
Okay, I think I've got this chicken tikka recipe sorted out now... This is as close as I've ever gotten to the first chicken tikkas I ate, at Abdul's Takeaway in Manchester, England. Tikka just means pieces, and there are many different recipes for this stuff, but then one I "grew up on" (culinary...
Last night's dinner was good, but I had some trouble with the naan. This was the first time I have tried to do naan directly on the griddle of the grill — without a pizza stone, I mean. The first naans were far too thick, and the heat was far too high, so I had to pull them off before they got...
Tandoori spiced shrimp and naan, done on the grill. This was good, but I think it could be a lot better. I think this is the first time I've tried to do naan directly on the griddle, on a grill (I've done it on a grill, with a pizza stone several times). I had some problems with the heat that caught...
I HIGHLY recommend this marinade from Trader Joe's. It was so good, I wanted to bathe myself in it and hop on a hot grill. Okay, not really. But it was so good my imagination got carried away. :)
Korean Fire Beef! I've seen some recipes call for extravagant cuts like tenderloin, for this dish. I think that's completely unnecessary. Flank steak is just fine for this application. You just cut the beef against the grain, into 1/8" strips, marinate it overnight in soy sauce, toasted sesame seed...
I haven't posted in 10 days. What the heck have I been doing? It seems that my focus got kind of blurred. It's like trying to read with one eye. It works for a while and then things are hard to see. The weekend of the fouth of July kind of got awaty from me. I ran in the Fireball Moonlight 5K and...
The chops were marinated in a mixture of leftover champagne, apple cider, oil, lime juice, ginger, cloves and salt and pepper, and then cooked on a hot charcoal grill. The sauce was made from the marinade, which was reduced with some diced pear added in, and some strips of uncooked pear added at the...
Yeah, yeah — that is mashed, garlic potatoes, heheh. And plain sliced tomatoes with salt, pepper and basil, grilled summer squash and cucumber (with salt, pepper and peanut oil). I think I'll call it the UN platter. I started out by making a simple marinade with Thai ingredients (for the...
Well, damn. That doesn't look good at all. Chicken and apple sausages, with buns, grilled. I consider this blog a diary, but damn... That looks pretty bad.
Alton Brown inspired me yet again and this time it was with polenta/grits. What I love about making this is that on the first night you have a nice porridge-like dish but you can let the leftovers set up overnight in a parchment lined pan and then slice them, brush them with olive oil and toss them...
In 2001 I was doing consulting work in Kansas City. On Monday at around 7 AM I would catch a flight out to KC and on Friday around 3 PM I would head back to the Twin Cities. Somehow I would manage to work nearly 60 hours in between those flights. But in between I would get my first real taste of KC...
Well this is a little awkward... I misplaced this picture, and thus didn't upload it. And now I can't remember anything about the meal. It certainly seems to be pretty unremarkable. I've got microwaved, canned peas and carrots, which I personally like a lot — it's an extremely simple side-dish....
