Sweep the Kitchen Hot Sauce We always enjoy cooking at the Murrieta Farmer’s Market on our Louisiana Wood Pellet Grill. The people are great and we always come home with lots of fresh fruit and veggies. Mike and Linda of Engle Farms sent home boxes of beautiful tomatoes, tomatillos and fragrant fresh basil, plus a huge assortment of fresh peppers. I had all kinds of…
Fiery Cowboy Pizza Ken wanted a really spicy, meaty pizza and the best way to make it was with some leftover “Fiery Chuck Roast” and lots of shredded pepper jack cheese that we cold smoked last week. We used enchilada sauce instead of tomato sauce to continue our south of the border flavor and ready made pizza crust to make it easy. We used some…
G's ROASTED LEMON ZEST POWDER This is pretty cool, and really simple. I wanted to add a touch of lemon flavor to a corn flour coating for fried fish, so I prepared a small batch of powdered lemon zest. What you get is a fragrant powder that doesn’t have the tart punch of fresh zest, but makes up for it with a toasted dimension that…
Kitchen Sink Brownies Patti was having some of her Ladies’ Group coming over for lunch. They wanted a cool, crisp healthy salad…followed by a decadent, very chocolaty dessert. To make it easy Patti used a package brownie mix with lots of mix-ins. The girls just wanted a sliver of the browning, huge slivers. LOL! It was a rich, crunchy and dense dessert. And one of…
Simply Delicious Roasted Chicken It’s hot here and tonight we wanted something simple and without a lot of fuss, but delicious. What can be easier than a chicken on the Louisiana Wood Pellet Grill/Smoker? I think pecan smoke in just magic on chicken along with a splash of “Big Dick’s” BBQ sauce. It made for a nice evening. Simply Delicious Roasted Chicken A Wood Pellet…
Three Cheese Potato Pie We love to make big meat, but we’ve gotten a lot of requests for sides we can make inside in the oven. Happily we have our Pacific Living Outdoor Oven. The weather has been in the triple digits here, so we made a yummy potato casserole without heating up our kitchen. Ken suggested this would make a great main dish adding…
Big ol’ Brisket 11 Hours from grate to plate. Patti brought me a 13 pound brisket and it was twice bigger than our dog Rat. This big brisket was so tender you didn’t even need teeth to eat it, and so juicy. Rat was with me the whole time making sure I got a good rub on it and had the smoke going right. We…
The Aloha Fatty We were thinking about do a fatty with a bit of a different twist to it. So we came up with the Aloha Fatty. This guy was packed with the smokey flavors of the sausage and bacon and blended with 2 kinds of cheese, garlic, red pepper, teriyaki, ginger, pineapple and Grandville’s Teriyaki BBQ sauce. We sliced it and served it with…
https://youtu.be/6GUZo0QkD4w Kamado Tri Tip Packed with “Big Beef” Flavor Tonight’s dinner was packed with “Big Beef” flavor with a wonderful peppery crust and a kiss of smoke flavor. We love the taste of big beef flavor and nothing says ‘Big Beef” better than Tri-Tip. Tri tip is a very tender cut of beef and full of rich beefy flavor; to give it another layer of…
Guest Chef CHEF G's BAKED CHICKEN-WRAPPED MOZZARELLA STICKS Smoked and habanero mozzarella string cheese wrapped in seasoned and flattened chicken tenderloins, coated with seasoned regular and panko bread crumbs, then baked to tender perfection. Oh My Good-Good-Ness! There have been a few popular recipes trending on the interwebs for mozzarella-stuffed chicken bites, and I prepared a batch myself last week. They were tasty, but I…
Kamado Tri Tip Packed with “Big Beef” Flavor Tonight’s dinner was packed with “Big Beef” flavor with a wonderful peppery crust and a kiss of smoke flavor. We love the taste of big beef flavor and nothing says ‘Big Beef” better than Tri-Tip. Tri tip is a very tender cut of beef and full of rich beefy flavor; to give it another layer of flavor…
Smoky Pork Tenderloin Chops A girlfriend of Patti’s makes her pork chops by covering them with bottled Italian salad dressing and baking them. Patti makes her own oil & vinegar salad dressing. So, we made our chops with our homemade version to do proper justice to the moist and tender Zaycon Fresh bacon wrapped pork tenderloins. It was so easy to marinate them all day…