Cuisine Capers

It’s the time of year that we only dream about in April. We’ve got fresh, homegrown tomatoes spilling over out of our patio pots and into our kitchen. We’ve made our BLTs a few times, but now it’s time to get creative.
Dinner last night - Marinated chicken breasts with homemade salsa and guacamole:

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When this month’s Is My Blog Burning? #6 was announced, I was a little bit disappointed that it was “Griller’s Delight”. Don’t get me wrong, we love to grill in the summer, but we don’t get terribly inventive, for 2 reasons:
Reason #1: One of the members in this household stubbornly clings to a 15 year [...]

As mentioned in one of my previous entries, I am determined to use all the produce from our CSA box this week. Tonight: Grilled yellow beans, fennel, yellow squash, onion and garlic, served with yogurt marinated chicken breasts.
Click below to see what I’ve used up, and what’s left to go. (I have a plan for [...]

Grilled Beer Brat with Sauerkraut, Onions and Mustard
… enough said.

Southwestern Grilled Sirloin with Black Bean Salsa
Click the link to see the recipe.

I really enjoy grilling…I mean REALLY enjoy it. With my weber Genesis B gas grill, we never stop grilling, winter or summer, it doesn’t matter. I will admit it that I enjoy it in the summer best of all. Tonight we had dry rubbed bbq’d short ribs. I know its not “right” to some people [...]

Back from Vegas. There are lots of cuisine related posts to work on from that excursion, but it was a long week and I don’t have the energy!
So, until then, I’ll just post a picture of dinner tonight - New York Strip Steak, grilled, served with a baked potato, sauteed asparagus and cucumbers.
And don’t [...]

Living in the northern climes, we tend to get excited about the little, simple pleasures in life.
Yes, that does indeed include the first real grilling of assorted meats. We’ve already grilled New York Strip steaks a couple of times, and they were great. But tonight it was a quick and really rather [...]