This is another quick post of an easy summer recipe that utilizes items fresh from the garden. The jalapenos and cilantro were from our garden and this is simply a combination of fresh ingredients.
This is a quick post because it is very simple but worth showing. I used fresh chives from our garden and mixed them into softened butter and sent the butter back to the fridge to be available for many uses.
We and especially I never make desserts so this is a real rarity. I love oreos and would say they are my favorite manufactured cookie so the cookie sandwich idea is a big hit with me. I also love the ice cream cookie sandwiches that look like this. I knew I wouldn’t be able to reconstruct oreos and am always a sucker when I see cookie sandwiches at street table bakeries like the ones they have set up in the Strip on weekends. The cookies or icing were not too difficult to make, but I was a little slow since I don’t have much experience in baking.
I was inspired to make this after flipping through my Bon Appetit magazine. It seemed simple, yet delicious and that’s exactly what it was! If you haven’t yet discovered fennel I really encourage you to give it a try. It is certainly an odd looking vegetable, but once you start working with it, it is pretty straight forward.
Posted in Recipes, Sauces, Seafood
Tagged bon appetit, crispy tilapia fillets, fennel, fennel bulb, fennel fronds, mint, pan fried, tilapia recipe, yogurt sauce
It should come as no surprise to anyone by now that I am a fan of homemade salad dressings. I made this for a family dinner some time ago and have been meaning to post it forever now. It was a delicious dressing that I ended up using on a spring salad. It would also be a great marinade or you can serve it warm as a sauce as well. It’s very versatile and easy to make.
Tuna noodle casserole is an American classic consisting of canned tuna, cream of mushroom soup, and sometimes green beans and other ingredients. What made this REAL tuna noodle casserole was the use of grilled tuna steaks. It still contained canned cream of mushroom soup and also green beans, garlic, and locally grown shiitake mushrooms from our CSA.
Tilapia is always cheap when on sale or not. Accordingly, it is not the tastiest fish but is very versatile and can be doctored up pretty easily. This was a sauteed spinach stuffing rolled in tilapia filets that were then sprinkled with parmesan and panko before a quick bake.
Yes that heading is correct, I made grilled meatballs. Had some ground beef and a hankering for meatballs during some pretty hot days and decided to give grilling meatballs a try. It worked amazingly well and produced a great taste of the grill with the Italian meatball flavors which were great dressed up with some sauce and cheese.
We have made fresh Caesar dressing before and it was a huge hit. The one difference this time was using chopped canned anchovies instead of anchovy paste. I lightly floured and baked some shrimp and placed it atop sauteed veggies for a light and summery dinner salad. This would also be great to serve in a large quantity at a party or dinner.
I was looking to grill something a little different since I had the time on a Sunday and it can be easy to fall into ruts in all aspects of cooking. I decided to grill pit beef for sandwiches and used a method I was unfamiliar with. This is basically a grilled roasted beef sandwich, which I thought would be indirect heat slow cooked but instead was directly cooked over the grill in a rather short period with much close attention to the grilling.
Posted in Beef
Tagged direct heat, grilled, horseradish, medium rare, pit beef, roast beef, roasted beef
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