Cilantro Sauce Cilantro Sauce is one of our favorites. It can be cool and refreshing or straight from the gates of hell. It’s a delicious, easy and beautiful sauce. In researching Cilantro Sauces around the world I found that almost every family has their own recipe for this all purpose sauce. I found that there is no right or wrong way to make it. Make…
Smoky Bacon Cheeseburger Meatloaf How about a Smoky Bacon Cheeseburger Meatloaf when the days are drizzly and cold we need comfort food and nothing says comfort like a big beefy meatloaf. And nothing says ground beef that’s good enough for us than Zaycon ground beef. It’s extra lean 93/7, grass fed and fresh, never frozen, with no chemicals or additives. You can really taste the…
Grilled Salmon with Pesto Cream Grilled Salmon with Pesto Cream, ever have one of those days when you’re so busy the day just gets away from you and then it’s dinnertime? Well, today was one of ours, so we stopped at the market to see what we could just toss together for a quick meal and we accidentally came up with a healthy gourmet…
Honey Braised Short Ribs Honey Braised Short Ribs on our Louisiana Pellet Grill. It’s a great grill in hot weather because we can put something on to smoke low and slow and set it then go inside and forget it. We smoked these Honey Braised Short Ribs for five hours with a little garlic. Super easy to do and so tender teeth were optional. The…
Garlicky Faux Fried Chicken Legs We love fried chicken, but not drowned in oil. So we made Garlicky Faux Fried Chicken Legs baked with the help of our Pacific Living Outdoor Oven. Instead of the usual egg wash Patti added some of our smoked garlic grilling sauce to the beaten egg. Fantastic, plus the mayonnaise in the sauce helped make the breading extra crispy. As…
Raspberry Balsamic Chicken It’s most definitely summertime. We wanted something light. Raspberry Balsamic Chicken, is easy and full of flavor. Ken likes his salad with raspberry vinaigrette dressing. So, Patti took it one step further and used it as part of her raspberry balsamic chicken. Along with a few more “on hand” ingredients she marinated her chicken thighs for a several hours and then onto…
https://youtu.be/nnbeNAh5fM0 Chipotle Beef Jerky Ken loves chipotle and jerky, so we’re thinking a homemade Chipotle Beef Jerky seasoned just the way he likes it. We went down to see Juan Carlos about some ribs and he had some top round on sale that was cut to ¼ inch that looked perfect for jerky. 9 pounds and 7 hours later we have a pile of Chipotle…
Crab Brunch Au Gratin Crab Brunch Au Gratin, Patti wanted to grow up to be, among other things, one of the “ladies that lunch” and being she’s such a great cook the ladies are frequently at our house. This casserole contained lots and lots of fake crab (but you can use real if you prefer) and lots of other goodies, too. It was seasoned just…
Pork Loin with Bacon Gravy We found a neat old piece of cast iron last week at a yard sale. Now it’s Ken’s newest favorite cast iron roaster. So Patti got me a whole pork loin that I cut down to fit and tossed in some red potato halves for our side. Then she made me some bacon gravy to top it off… With the…
Pecan Crusted Chicken Tenders This recipe was especially tasty and fun to make. Patti cut one of Zaycon Fresh chicken breasts into ½” strips. Using Zaycon Fresh chicken breasts we knew it would be tender and full of flavor…if we didn’t have Zaycon Fresh we would have just called them chicken strips. You can really taste the difference. Plus, we got to use Ken’s Mom’s…
BBQ Pork Chops with South Carolina-Style Mustard Barbecue Sauce We love big thick pork chops any way they come. Patti gets us a big pork loin and I cut big chops out if it for the grill. Tonight I took some of these chops and grilled them with our new South Carolina-Style Mustard Barbecue Sauce and they were Awesome!!! So good you can serve them up…
Caesar Marinated Chicken Leg Quarters It’s been a long day, plus 97 degrees of dry heat. But, we still have to have dinner. Thanks to our Pacific Living Outdoor Oven we made an easy three ingredient dinner and kept the kitchen cool. We love doing recipes with “on hand” ingredients and served with cold sliced tomatoes this was perfect. Patti made enough to have some…