Baked Fillet of Salmon with Lime & Coriander Butter

Saturday Night’s dinner was an adaptation of a recipe from my favorite new cookbook, My Wild Atlantic Kitchen, by Kerry Ireland chef Maura O’Connell Foley. This meal took about 10-15 minutes to prepare and full of flavor. I served it on top of my spiralized Zucchini. The recipe is called Baked Fillet of Wild Salmon with Lime & Coriander Butter. INGREDIENTS: 2 Salmon Fillets 3 oz of Kerrygold Irish Butter Juice of 2 Limes 1 tablespoon Coriander Powder Freshly Ground Black Pepper Zucchini 1 Spiralized Zucchini ¼ cup chopped jarred roasted red bell pepper ½ chopped onion 1 tbsp Kerrygold butter Roasted garlic Crushed red pepper flakes Freshly ground black pepper DIRECTIONS: Preheat your oven to 400°. Spray a glass baking dish with olive oil spray. Make a foil...

Don’s Enchiladas

This is one of my favorite recipes. I’ve been cooking it for three decades, harkening back to my days in Phoenix as a young visual journalist at the Arizona Republic. You can use any kind of meat. My favorites are grilled chicken thighs, pulled pork and of course…the day after Thanksgiving, my famous turkey enchiladas. I guess in theory you could leave the meat out, and it would still be incredible. You can use store-bought enchilada sauce as well, but home-made is very easy and tastes much better. I will admit to using the canned sauce, as it is mild and I generally have cooked for people that need mild. Not tonight. Tonight, I’m cooking for myself, using an air-fried leg quarter from last nights dinner. So I was happy to find my old sauce...

Rib Meat BBQ Egg Roll

Yes, I have written up my air fried egg rolls twice before, once with chicken, once with pork. But tonight, given my abundance of St. Louis Spare Rib meat in my fridge, I had a new idea. I have little doubt that this has been done before, but it was a new idea to me…a rib meat BBQ sauce infused egg roll. The idea began simple, I would do my traditional egg roll base with a cabbage slaw mixed with ginger, soy sauce and sliced green onions. But then it hit me…slaw works well with pork ribs. And I have my home-made Shack BBQ sauce. So…. I diced up some rib meat. I got my slaw mix and put in a couple tablespoons of my BBQ sauce, and I folded in some minced Vidalia onion. Then it was the traditional egg roll construction, a spoon of the slaw, then of...

Cod with Atlantic Prawns & Brandy Cream Sauce

My traditional July 4th dinner is a huge pile of ribs shared with friends, but I did that yesterday…as the Colonial Beach had their fireworks yesterday.So for my 4th of July dinner this year, I decided to flip through my new cook book, Wild Atlantic. A book written by a local chef (local, if you live in Kenmare, Ireland). Since cod is a BIG staple in Ireland, I wanted to do something with cod, since I can get it at our local grocery.I actually settled on a recipe called Dover Sole with Atlantic Prawns & Brandy Cream Sauce, with Spinach & Mushrooms. It’s actually a hybrid of two toppings the author offered. I had made cream sauces before, but never with brandy. And, yes, I used Cod instead of Dover Sole. Not a lot of Dover Sole around Colonial...

Air Fried Pork Chop and Corn

I knew today had the potential of being a rough day, so I planned a simple meal, Air fried pork chop, corn on the cob and a salad. The day turned out to be a pretty good one. Everything I had needed worked out. So it was not only a ‘comfort food’ meal, but one fun to prepare, and incredibly easy, yet very yummy. My pork chop is simple, the same rub I use on my chicken. Onion powder, garlic powder, cayenne (no Tony’s) and paprika with a hint of pink himalayan salt (since I didn’t use tony’s) and a bit of dried basil. I air fried this for 15 minutes, and when I rotated them for the next half, I put in my corn. The corn is a local bi-color sweet corn. I melted some Kerrygold butter, put in some garlic powder and paprika, a little salt...