What is cooking today?

Chicken, potatoes and carrots.  Not pictured: corn on the cob.

Looks outstanding!  Now I’m in the mood to do one myself!

Nothing grilled. Ran chicken in the Sous Vide and made a Chicken Poke Bowl with Sriracha Mayo. Started on a bed of Mixed Lettuces, Quinoa, Edamame, Avocado, Bell Pepper, Grape Tomatoes, Spring Onion, Nori Furikake sprinkles and Chicken, and a Kiwi for garnish.

And you didn’t even invite me over.  Seriously sounds and looks fantastic.

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and healthy too!

They lifted our fire ban, so I’m grilling for the first time this year! Ahi steaks and Brussels sprouts marinated in soy/honey/wasabi.

You cannot grill during a fire ban? I’ve never seen even a spark leave my grill.

Probably should have specified charcoal. I don’t think I’ve seen even a spark leave my charcoal grill either, but I’m no fan of fires so I’ve been playing by the rules.

That sounds very tasty!

My latest batch of wings:

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Man I live a good plate of wings. How did you cook em? Sauce type?

Potato pizza, I know, carbs on carbs right? 4 day cold ferment dough, thin sliced yukon gold potatoes (skins left on), bacon,smoked gouda cheese, thyme,salt&pepper and olive oil. Followed with a nice glass or two of Helles!

Super easy: I prepped the wings the day before, and let them dry out ovenight in the fridge, on a stainless cooling rack set into a rimmed baking sheet.  Wings also got a light dusting of salt and pepper before going into the fridge, to dry-brine overnight.

Preheated the oven to 400°F, and the wings got a light hit of cooking spray followed by a dusting of Penzey’s adobo spice rub (both sides).

Then into the oven for 1 hour, flipped halfway through.

Once cooked, they got a brushing of Rojo pepper sauce (both sides), courtesy of Atomic City Foods, then back into the oven for 10 minutes (heat off), to let the sauce set up.

Plate and devour.  And they were quite tasty.

I plan to smoke two chickens tonight.  Brined them last night and will dry rub them this afternoon.

We are making chicken salad for a dinner party tomorrow evening.  Smoked chicken really makes the chicken salad recipe pop!

Paul

A couple of days late, but over the weekend smoked/grilled another Tomahawk. Took it to 120F over charcoal with Hickory and then grilled over Mequite Charcoal.

Making Pasta Puttanesca tonight.

I love mesquite with a good steak, have not combined it with hickory though.  Sounds tasty!

Puttanesca came out quite good.

I baked my dog a peanut butter, honey, flax, and berry cake today for her 3rd birthday. She already ate 1/4 of it (because I am going to save the rest) and I’ve never made a dog cake before but I got the recipe from a local baker.

We have an abundance of eggplants in the garden. Today we try our hand at a greek dish called Moussaka. I have never made it but it looks and sounds like a nice Sunday comfort meal. Hmmmm, what should we drink with it?

Moussaka is delicious! If you have a lot of eggplant, and aren’t familiar with it, stay in the Eastern Mediterranean and learn to make Baba Gannouj; one of the highest callings of the humble eggplant.  A roasted eggplant spread/dip.