Baked BBQ Chicken

A bunch of chicken and baby crimini mushrooms with some barbecue sauce, plum sauce, brown mustard, fresh garlic, salt, and white pepper, baked while covered in foil at 350 degrees, uncovered, and then baked again for a little while longer, to give it some color.

Just the right amount of rice to sop up all the juice!

Just the right amount of rice to sop up all the juice!

Turned out to be a great finger licker, and the mushrooms were profound!

Published in: on August 26, 2008 at 7:42 pm  Leave a Comment  
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Meat…the way it’s done.

Here’s the simplest, fastest and tastiest way we’ve found to season steaks (This method has been around for a while).  We’ll give a step by step for this one.  First, get some steaks.

Some decent marbling.

Some decent marbling.

Second, heavily salt them, both sides.  I mean heavily.  We use sea salt and leave it out for about 20 minutes for three quarter inch steaks.  If you use table salt, cut down the time.  Also, adjust the time according to the thickness, the thinner the steak, the shorter the time.

Salt is also under the steaks.

Salt is also under the steaks.

Third, wash off all the salt and pat dry.  Cook the steaks your favorite way.  We sauted ours in a little olive oil till they got a small crust on each side.  They’re still rare to medium rare.

Nice searing!

Nice searing!

Last, let rest, slice and enjoy!

If you look closely, you can see the marbling just beginning to melt.

If you look closely, you can see the marbling just beginning to melt.

By the way, here’s the slightly rare one.

Ultra tender!

Ultra tender!

Published in: on August 15, 2008 at 12:35 am  Comments (1)  
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Bedded Salmon

Took some spinach, onions, green peppers, garlic, salt and pepper, cooked it all up with some olive oil, and lightly spread it down on a plate.  We cooked some salmon, and placed it on top of that.  Then we took cherry tomatoes, mushrooms and green peppers, tossed it with a little fire and such, and poured it on top of the salmon.  Worked pretty well.

Nice, fresh ingredients...and it looked so good we had to take a bite!

Nice, fresh ingredients...and it looked so good, we had to take a bite!

Published in: on August 13, 2008 at 1:42 am  Comments (1)  
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Quick Appetizer

We took a scrumpcious piece of ahi and coated it with furikake to make a nice little seared tuna appetizer.

Melts in your mouth.

Melts in your mouth.

It rests on a bed of…guess…

Published in: on August 12, 2008 at 1:40 am  Comments (1)  
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Summer Citrus Chicken

We created a dressing with red onions, crushed garlic, sea salt, white pepper, cilantro, grapefruit and lemon juice, olive oil, and a dash of balsamic vinegar, poured it over chicken quarters and drumsticks, and baked it at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

The dressing ended up making a nice little sauce...great with rice!

The dressing ended up making a nice little sauce...great with rice!

Published in: on August 12, 2008 at 12:39 am  Leave a Comment  
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Something delicate…

We acquired some very nice scallops and wanted to use them as an appetizer, but we wanted it to be simple and fast.  So, we seasoned them with salt and pepper, then poach/fried them with a combination of pure virgin olive oil and butter.  Using a medium high flame in a nonstick pan, the scallops were cooked until lightly browned on the bottom and then flipped, frying until they were barely cooked through.  It created a nice little “crust” that dissolved during the resting phase to create a delicate undertone.  This is what they looked like.

Salt, pepper, butter, pure virgin olive oil, and that's all.

Salt, pepper, butter, pure virgin olive oil, and that's all.

They were delicious, but we wanted to do something really fun.  We cut a small piece and placed it in an Asian soup spoon.  Then, we drizzled a bit of lemon juice, garnished it with cilantro and topped it with Sriracha chili sauce. Abfab!…the flavors blended beautifully and the scallop melted in your mouth.

Scallop shooters in a spoon.

Scallop shooters in a spoon.

This was easy, fast, a lot of fun and great with drinks.  Highly recommended if you’re so inclined.

Published in: on August 8, 2008 at 2:30 am  Comments (1)  
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Fast food

Something fast…

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Three chicken thighs seasoned with pepper, a pinch of garlic salt and a dash of seasoned salt, fried skin side down in olive oil until the skin is crispy, flipped, and fried until done.

Published in: on August 4, 2008 at 4:08 am  Comments (1)  
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