Baked Salmon Stuffed with Spinach and a Garlic Yogurt Sauce

This is a new one. I woke up thinking about a stuffing a salmon with spinach. The yogurt, garlic and mushrooms just evolved during the day. My sous chef brought it to perfection with mashed cauliflower. Thin slice a few mushrooms, and leave a few hole or halved. Saute the sliced mushrooms in olive oil, then add spinach and garlic. Blend some yogurt with minced garlic, paprika and black pepper. Turn off the heat on the wilted spinach and fold in the yogurt mix. In a oiled glass baking dish, lay down the first piece of salmon. Then spoon on the spinach/yogurt filling. Place the second piece of salmon on top. Brush on some olive oil, season with paprika (I used sweet Spanish paprika) and course ground black pepper. Top this with a handful of Parmesan cheese. Coat...

Home made tortillas

Home made tortillas! So easy, so good. The leftovers from mojo chicken night were always destined to be taco fillings. So the shredded chicken, black beans, saffron rice, bell peppers and onions were heated up and ready to go! The star of the meal was the homemade tortilla. We made them two ways, one set with regular flour, the other with chickpea flour. Regular: Ingredients: 3 cups all purpose flour 1½ tsp salt 2 tsp baking powder 1/2 cup lard 1 cup warm – hot water Put everything but the water into a food processor and kneed for a few seconds. Slowly add water and kneed till it forms a ball. Break into small balls, about 1/3 of a cup (50g). You can roll these out, or use a tortilla press, this time I tried something new, I heated up the whole press on the...

Roast Beef Sandwich with a spicy Horseradish Aoli

Roast Beef Sandwich with a spicy Horseradish Aoli. Leftovers from Sunday night’s feast where honored in today’s lunch. Food Lion actually carries a heart bread that is perfect for this, it’s called Rustic Sandwich Buns.” Brush the inside of the buns with a mixture of olive oil, salt and garlic powder. Brown this in a skillet. Remove to a plate. Make an aoli mayo, horseradish and hot sauce and spread on the bottom bun. Add the finely shaved beef and top with cheddar and put on the top bun. Return this to the hot skillet, drizzle a little water into the skillet on each side of the sandwich (it should instantly begin to boil) and cover with a cloche. Turn off the heat and let it steam for a minute. Plate, removing the top bun and adding some...

Cuban Chicken Dinner

Tonight: Mojo marinaded chicken leg quarter with saffron rice, black beans and sauteed red bell peppers and onions. Rice: Onions, saffron, turmeric, garlic, jasmine rice and water. No butter tonight, just Moroccan olive oil. Sea salt. Beans: Onions, Garlic, Cumin, black pepper and sodium free black beans. Peppers and onions sauteed in nothing but Moroccan olive oil. Chicken was marinaded for 2 hours in the Goya Mojo from Food Lion. Air fried at 370° for 45 minutes and let rest for 15 minutes.Garnished with green onion...

Perfect Roast Beef

Tonight’s dinner…Roast Beast! Top round roast, brought to room temperature coated with salt to draw out the moisture,then seasoned with garlic powder, onion powder and paprika and seared in a cast iron skillet. Then placed in a 300° oven on a roasting rack for an hour until it hit 120° and allowed to rest till it came to 130°. Sliced thin, served with carrots and onions that were on the bottom of the roasting rack....