Veggies!
We are blessed with the Rockledge Garden’s Farmer’s Market each Wed. and Sat. Here are some great ways to enjoy FRESH spring vegies all week. Or GROW your own! What to pick up at the Farmer’s Market: Lettuce/Salad Japanese Egg Plant (long, thin eggplant) Beets Onions Carrots Yellow Squash (and/or Zuchinni) Peppers Rainbow Chard Cauliflower Tomatoes (cherry) Garlic Plus, from the grocery store – goat cheese, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and lemon/lemon juice. Herbs: Oregano and Basil When we get home, we clean/prep/package the vegies for the week. Day 1: Vegies on the Grill – thinly slice the egg plant, yellow squash, onion, pepper, then add cherry tomatoes and carrots (grill slim carrots whole) – dress all vegies with olive...
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...
Tuna Happens
We have a great relationship with tuna. It happens when it happens. Living on the coast, you can often buy tuna. But sometimes when tuna is running, you can get a GREAT deal on a wonderful fish. We usually pay $12 to $16 a pound for any fish at our local fish market. Grocery store prices are always cheaper, but the fish isn’t quality and is often frozen. But on occasion the sushi-quality yellow fin tuna is in abundance and we can buy it at $8 or $9 a pound. Once on the west coast we bought a whole fish at $2.99 a pound (and they filleted for us at the same cost). When the high quality tuna shows up, we buy it. Ingredients: Zip lock bag, gallon or quart as needed Quality olive oil. California at a minimum, we like Tuscan Herb. Balsamic Vinegar. We like 18...
Bacon wrapped scallops
This is a very pedestrian, and VERY good recipe. We actually have never cooked it before because it seemed to be one of those things you order from an app menu. But one of our local boutique shops (Green Turtle ROCKS) had some HUGE scallops today, so we bought some in lue of our usual shrimp. So we also bought half a pound of their bacon. This recipe is for two. Ingredients Six BIG fresh sea scallops Bacon ( 3 strips). We buy half a pound and save the rest for breakfast. 2 tablespoons butter (we use Earth Balance margarine) Fresh ground pepper Tony’s Seasoning 1 tsp minced garlic 6 toothpicks Directions Melt the margarine. Add the Tony’s, garlic and pepper in a bowl. Add the scallops to coat. Cut 3 strips of bacon in half. On a cutting board or a...