Short Ribs
This is a simple to prepare meal that tastes fantastic. We serve it with green beans and potatoes (mashed, whole red petite or garlic smashed). Ingredients 1 pound beef short ribs 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 tablespoon butter 1 onion, sliced 1 clove garlic 1 (12 fluid ounce) can or bottle beer 1 cup beef stock (although we’ve used chicken stock too) Directions Season the short ribs with salt and pepper. We use Green Turtle’s Supreme Steak Seasoning. Heat the olive oil and butter in a large skillet or Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Cook the ribs until browned on each side, about 5 minutes per side. Remove from the skillet and set aside. Add the onion and garlic to the skillet; cook and stir until onion...
Fried Chicken
Don’s Fried Chicken Sometimes you just need to bite into some fried chicken. So over the years (every six months or so) when I get the hankering for Fried Chicken. I play around with a fried chicken recipes. Tonight was PERFECT. So I’m going to post it…just don’t tell her. I think I finally nailed the perfect Fried Chicken recipe (for me). Ingredients 4 chicken thighs (the new new white meat…or pick or own) Wet Stuff 2 eggs 1/4 cup of milk Oil Two or three cups of canola oil. Dry Stuff 1 cup of flour Dash or two of cayenne pepper (depending on taste). I like two to three dashes. Black pepper to taste (two teaspoons makes it zesty) Salt (we usually don’t use salt…but fried chicken needs it. One teaspoon) 1 tablespoon dried...
Creole Sauce
We recently spent a week in Aruba and stumbled across a great addition to our fish grilling efforts…Creole Sauce. Aruba is very much a Creole Nation and within a day of arriving back on our shores, we bought some Wahoo and worked up a FANTASTIC Creole sauce. We stayed at the Ritz Carlton while on the island, and while it’s a five-star resort, the food (what little we ate there) was three-star. So we often ventured into the community for better fare and fell in love with the Creole sauce served with and on the local fish. A day after getting home we created this. And it’s GREAT. We just happened to have all the stuff in house, so other than buying the fish we didn’t have to go to the store. We grilled the Wahoo, coated with olive oil...
The Lightkeepers
Great romance/comedy movie based on a lighthouse at Cape Cod around 1900. Fantastic acting and wonderful scenery.
Mud
OK, this is a bit of a stretch. We’ll call it an inland coastal movie. Three things beg the allowance to make it on our the Coastal Movie list. One is the cast. Fantastic acting. Two is the cinematography. The third is the writing…powerful, simple and THANKFULLY we didn’t end the thing with a car chase (we were worried there for a bit). If you can, see it on a big screen with a good sound system. We have liked Matthew McConaughey since we first saw him in CONTACT, but this (in our opinion) is the best acting he has ever done. We’ll watch it again soon. This is one of those movies that transports you to a different place while you’re watching...