Category: Recipes

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The chicken saga continues, and tonight we cracked open the P90X cookbook and scaled back a recipe for the two of us.  We have also started on a new portion control saga to only eat as much as our fist (chewed of course), with more vegetables and less meat.  We ended up with a relatively easy chicken recipe that was tasty.

Lemon-Garlic Chicken Breast with Coucous

Ingredients
2 chicken breasts
2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp molasses
2 cloves of garlic chopped
1 tsp worcestershire sauce
salt and pepper

Instructions
Combine lemon juice, molasses, garlic and Worcestershire sauce in a bowl and mix well.  Spray a baking dish with non-stick cooking spray and put chicken in it.  Pour marinade over chicken, cover and refrigerate, turning occasionally for 1 hour.  Pre-heat oven to 425°F and bake for 45 minute or until done, basting occasionally.

It was pretty tasty, at least the skin was and it had enough flavor to permeate every bite of the chicken.  It was a little dry, but I slacked in my basting and will do that more frequently next time.

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Not quite as tasty as the original curry dish that turned my onto chicken curry, but still tasty enough to fall into the I will make it again category.  Using the same recipe and modifying as necessary I threw together another tasty curry rendition, that was still pretty good.

Store top chicken curry

Ingredients
3 tsp curry powder
2 cubed chicken breasts
1 chopped onion
pinch of ginger
1/3 c honey
2 tbsp margarine or butter

Instructions
Melt butter in a frying pan and add curry, ginger and onion mixing together well.  Cook over low heat until onion are translucent, stirring frequently.   Add chicken, cover and cook until done throughout, add honey and cook for an additional 2-3 minutes stirring constantly until a sauce forms and is uniform.  Eat right away.

Not as good as the first chicken curry I made in the oven and have made weekly since then, but it was still very good and we will make it again when in a bind.

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A ginger milkshake you ask?  That’s right, when I first saw it fly across Twitter, I thought the same thing and the more I thought about it the more my mouth watered.  Tonight I finally made one and it was good and I think next time it will be even better.

Ingredients
1 1/2 inch section ginger root
1 c milk
1 c vanilla ice cream

Instructions
Peel and shred ginger root.  Put ginger and milk in blender and liquefy it until it is smooth and well blended.  Strain milk and remove all fibers of ginger root, push on the fibers to get it all through.  Add milk and ice cream to blender, blend until smooth.

Well what came out of that was a soupy milkshake that was good, a typical vanilla milkshake flavor followed by a nice bite of ginger that kinda sticks with you for a minute.  It was pretty incredible.  Next time I think I will use less milk more ice cream and more ginger.

Update: Made another shake tonight, this time used about 2 – 2 1/2 inches of ginger root and 1/2 c of milk, much better, much thicker, much more ginger bite and all around just a better shake.

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Those who know me, know that there are two things I enjoy that relax me and often yield outstanding results fishing and cooking (by cooking I mean grilling, baking, smoking, roasting, etc).  Because of this a lot of people ask me what is the best way to eat fish?  Without a doubt the best way regardless of how it is prepared to eat fish is fresh, I enjoy smoked fish, baked fish, fried fish and grilled fish, but compound any of those methods with a fresh catch and it is exponentially better.  As a result of last nights catch today’s smoked fish lunch went from the lake to the plate in less than 24 hours, now that is some pretty fresh fish.

Brined the fish this morning for a couple of hours in my famous fish brine, let it sit out and dry/skin for about an hour and into the smoker at 190°F with some alder and apple wood for about 2 hours.  Had a little trouble getting the smoke going early on the Brinkmann Electric (which if you remember I built a PID controller for it last year), but was trying something new.  The results in spite of the difficulties where phenomenal, there might not be a better fish to smoke.

The famous fish brine recipe is as follows:

Ingredients
2 qts water
1 c kosher salt
1/2 c brown sugar
1/2 tbsp lemon juice
1/2 tbsp onion powder
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp ground allspice
1/2 tbsp pickling spice
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
1 tsp black pepper

Instructions
I stir the salt in the water until dissolved and then test to see if an uncooked egg floats.  If it does not remove the egg, add more salt, stir and test again until the egg floats; this is important to get an 80 brine.  Once the salinity is all set add the rest of the ingredients, mix in thoroughly and refrigerate until needed, I have left it in the fridge for weeks and used it with excellent results.

I follow the brining directions located here.

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Well another day of chicken and another recipe this one in the box for the long haul.  The chicken we ate wasn’t really that incredible, just a rub and roast with a balsamic chicken and fish rub.  That said the chicken wasn’t half bad, although I am starting to develop a beef with Tyson boneless skinless chicken breasts.  What made for a great recipe was the balsamic and rosemary vinaigrette, I drizzled (or maybe smothered) over my spinach and chicken salad.  It was incredible a burst of garlic at first and then later a balsamic tang, all encompassed with a ting of rosemary.  It was incredible and will be the next time I eat it as well, which will probably be everyday until its gone.

Balsamic Rosemary Vinaigrette with a Spinach Salad

This might be the easy dressing I have ever made out side of a straight vinegar or oil drizzle on a salad this might take the cake as the easiest.

Ingredients
1/3 c balsamic vinegar
1/2 c olive oil
2 tbsp water
1 tbsp dijon mustard
1 tbsp fresh rosemary (I substituted 1 tsp dried whole rosemary)
1/2 tsp kosher salt
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
1 clove garlic

Instructions
Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth and creamy.  That’s all.  Will store in the refrigerator for a couple weeks is stored in a sealed container.

That’s it and out came this incredibly creamy and delicious dressing.  Sometimes simpler is better.  This would also be delicious with salmon or pork on the same salad.

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