Blackened Fish Tacos with a Black Bean Sauce

Start early with the black beans. Saute some onions and red bell peppers in some olive oil. Add turmeric, black pepper and whatever seasonings you like. Garlic, cayenne. Whatever. Cook this over low heat for about half an hour. A bit of cumin is good too. We blackened some haddock with paprika, garlic powder, black pepper, Himalayan pink salt, Flat Iron Pepper, Italian Seasoning, Cayenne Pepper and Kevin’s Creole Seasoning. This was pan seared on a medium high heat in a skillet. It was too hot to cook out on the Blackstone tonight. Meanwhile we made a simple sauce of yogurt and hot sauce with a little lemon juice. Just before the fish was done, we toasted a pile of tortillas in the air fryer. Construction was… TortillaBlack Bean mixPico de...

Upscale your Ham and Cheese Sandwich!

Upscale your Ham and Cheese Sandwich! First, caramelize red onion slices in a little butter and olive oil. Take your time, this is about 15 minutes over a medium low heat. Remove the slices, but don’t clean the pan. You’ll use the drippings to cook your sandwich. Little chunks of leftover onion will cook into the bread, and the butter/oil remaining will be infused with the onion flavor. Lay down two slices of sourdough bread. Smear one side with Duke’s Mayo. On the other, spread on some horseradish and some whole grain mustard. You can actually do what you like here. They make a Dijon/horseradish spread that would be perfect here. Add a pile of thin, deli-sliced Black Forest ham. Then place your onions and top with cheese slices. I had a medium...

Shrimp Frittata!

This is a simple but exquisite meal. Thin slice and wash carefully a single leek. Dry well. Put this in a skillet with some olive oil and cook it down until it is tender. Meanwhile, we brought in some basil, grape tomatoes, and hot chili peppers from the garden. These were diced up. We took five eggs and beat them, and then added the basil and chili peppers. If you don’t have any leeks, just use fenced, sliced sweet onions.  if you don’t have any chili peppers, use dried red pepper flakes.  On this run, we decided to use pre-cooked shrimp, so we just marinated those with some olive oil and black pepper with a little bit of garlic powder. With the leaks done, we added a couple tablespoons of minced garlic for about 30 seconds to bring up the aroma. To this we...

Dubai Taco

Trust me, if you like meat, you want to make this. I worked up with a simplified food-processor version that makes it easy. And the flavors are OUT OF THIS WORLD. This originated as an Egyptian street food, but this is the taco version. Simply enough, put all the following ingredients into a food processor (you could mix it by hand as well). I blended up the onions, bell pepper and chili’s first. Then I added the rest. Quick note, I finally bought a kitchen scale so I could follow some recipes better. Below is for 2 lbs of meat. I used one lb of 85/15 grass-feed beef. So use half of everything else below. My goal is to add more specific ingredient amounts. Up to now I’ve been pretty loose. 1/2 kg white onion small diced80 g green chili chopped140 g...

Happy 4th oh July Hot Dog

Like everyone else, I like an occasion hot dog. I have limited myself to a enjoying a hot dog once a year…July 4th. So for this year we decided to do it up right. First off, the only dog to use is a Nathan’s All Beef. On the Blackstone we heated up avocado oil and tossed on some chopped Vidalia Onions and a handful of Hot Cherry Peppers. To join them we toasted some potato buns. The topper was a seared grass fed ground beef, flavored with some chili seasoning, fresh ground black pepper and pink Himalayan sea salt. With the buns toasted, we added the peppers, onions and mustard. With the dog placed it was topped with crispy meat mixture, and for me, a slice of deli-cut American cheese. Hands down, the best hot dog I’ve ever had! I hope all my...