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This was last Friday night's dinner.


Grilled Lemon Herb Salmon w/ Garlic Sauteed Spinach & Rice Pilaf:


I call it "rice pilaf", you can call it whatever you like :)

Starting on the rice, I put about 1 tsp of oil(I use E.V.O.O.) in a pan and heat it up, chop some onion and place in pan then about 30 seconds later add fresh garlic:




I used about 1/2 cup of white rice, I usually rinse the un-cooked rice under running water for about 30 seconds using a strainer, then add it to the pan and kind of toast the rice, this will give it a bit of "toasty" flavored as opposed to just placing the rice in the pan:




Then I add about 1 cup of water, 1 tsp of chicken bouillon, garlic powder, black pepper, some more fresh garlic, chopped onion, and some frozen veggie blend (very similar to Mexican rice, just no tomato paste). Bring all of that up to a boil, cover and lower heat to low and cook for about 15-20 minutes:




Now, I can start with the garlic cloves for the spinach, I cleaned up some cloves and slice them up:




I then add about 2 tbs of E.V.O.O. to a pan and heat it up, then add the sliced garlic cloves and let them cook for about 30-45 seconds, just enough to brown them up a bit, then remove them from the pan and set them to the side:







Wash and strain the spinach:





Get the salmon ready, I squeezed some lemon and lime, then added garlic powder, garlic salt, black pepper, thyme, and Italian seasoning:




At this point I can pre-heat the grill and get the fish on their:




CHEERS!!!!!




After about 7 minutes, I flipped it over:






Now back to the spinach, using the pan I toasted the garlic, I add some chopped onion to let them sweat out:




Then add the fresh spinach, cover on medium heat for about 3 minutes, then add the garlic cloves that were cooked earlier:





Back to the salmon, about 7 minutes on the other side, It's ready!!!!





Get the wifees plate ready:





And here's my plate and drink of choice:






 
My apologies for no pics I just found this thread but last Saturday I did smoked salmon brined in water, soy, ginger, minced garlic mixture with apple wood chips and a brown ale in the drip tray to keep things moist. Brine for 8 hours, strong smoke 2 hours at about 150 (just where the lid of the smoker can be touched) then another 2 hours of light smoke at 225. DE... LI.. CIOUS. Planning a smoked brisket soon. Oh and I homebrew too so naturally I was enjoying some REALLY good beer to go with the salmon.
 
My apologies for no pics I just found this thread but last Saturday I did smoked salmon brined in water, soy, ginger, minced garlic mixture with apple wood chips and a brown ale in the drip tray to keep things moist. Brine for 8 hours, strong smoke 2 hours at about 150 (just where the lid of the smoker can be touched) then another 2 hours of light smoke at 225. DE... LI.. CIOUS. Planning a smoked brisket soon. Oh and I homebrew too so naturally I was enjoying some REALLY good beer to go with the salmon.

Sounds great...now if I could only find some decent fish in this stinkin desert....
 
I get lucky. I have a friend that brings back fish they catch on a fishing trip to Alaska. It's vacuum packed and they freeze it. I thaw, brine and smoke and it comes out great. I have tried the same with Michigan salmon but something is lost in translation.
 
Mmmmmmmm....love the juicy, moist, blackened fish......that looks good!!! Did you drench it in clarified butter first? What spices do you blacken with?? I miss the days when I used to do blackened tuna steaks - seared black on the outside with a nice cool rare center :chef:

Sadly, I'm just eating take-out pizza tonight..... :thumbdown:
 
JoyfulNoise, I brush it with clarified butter then pour Chef Pauls Blackened Seafood Magic and softly pat it in. I get my blacktop up to 500 degrees and leave it there for about 20 minutes. I then brush oil on the blacktop and cook 4 minutes on the first side and about 2 1/2 on the second side. We are lucky that we get fresh seafood from a friend who fishes every weekend. He almost always catches too much. In return I do his computer work. Great trade.
 
So the pantry was getting a little low and I improvised an tasty pork tenderloin treat. It's sort of more appropriate for the Fall season, but it tasted good and used up some ingredients I had lying around.

Pork Tenderloin Stuffed with Apples & Raisins (I should figure out how to say that in French, it would probably sound better...)

The basic idea is to filet a pork tenderloin (they usually come in two packs of two at Costco), use a mallet to flatten it out and then put your stuffing along the middle and fold it closed using kitchen twine. Here's the photo recap -

Split the filets down the middle leaving about an inch of meat, open them up and pound them flat -

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Assembly your stuffing ingredients - apple (type not important), raisins (1/2c), dark brown sugar (1/2c), Saigon cinnamon, thyme.

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I sprinkled a little salt, fresh ground pepper and extra cinnamon on the pork surface prior to loading them up. The are then tied up using a fairly standard (How to tie a roast" technique found on YouTube like such -
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Note to self - get better kitchen twine!!! Always use the thickest kitchen twine you can find. I have this thin junk I picked up once at Target...stuff is like dental floss and almost useless.

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All tied up and ready to go -

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Cleaned the grille with my brass wire brush (I need a new one) and oiled up the grate with a little vegetable oil. I placed a cooking try on the cold side of the grille and I place my loins on there to get their grille marks -

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Cooked up a reduction of red wine and cherry jam on the stove -

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and VILOA!!

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Brined Chicken with Mandarin Orange-Ginger Glaze

So I decided to use the rotisserie on my grille and cook up a whole chicken. Safeway had whole chickens for $0.89/LB so I couldn't resist cooking up a 6 pound chicken for less than $6....

Basic Salty/Sweet Brine:

3/4 cup coarse salt (Kosher or Sea)
3/4 cup Soy sauce (low sodium works best)
2/3 cup Honey
1/4 cup Olive oil
1 Gallon warm water

Mix the brine up in a big pot. I like to use those big slow cooker plastic bags to line a 6-quart pot...it looks like a vinyl liner pool when you add the water. Typically you want to use warm or room temp water so the salt dissolves easily. Some peeps like to boil the water and dissolve it quick BUT then you have to let the water cool to room temperature. After mixing up the brine, take you bird (pull all the gizzard packs out), rinse it off and submerge it in the brine. Tie off the top and let it sit in the pot in the fridge for at least 12 hours or as long as 36 hours (it gets pretty salty if you leave it in too long).

Here are some picks -

All brined up and loaded onto the rotisserie stick -

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I decided to take the easy approach and use a premixed glaze to baste the bird with every 15mins or so -

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Roasting ....

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Roasting ....

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DONE!! (Took about 90 mins to complete the roast)

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Quartered -

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Served with buttered broccoli and Hawaiian rolls -

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(I likes me some dark meat....Mmmmmm, mmmmm goooooooood!!)

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Cold smoking some apples for a apple pie.
Didnt have enough pie crust for the top but ice cream will due just fine.

What else do you cold smoke?
 
smoked cheese is wonderful...i want to try smoking hard boiled eggs and then making deviled eggs. I've read that they are very good. I did also cold smoke some perogies last weekend for an experiment and they turned out very good. I will post up pics with some upcoming cold smokes when the weather is better for cold smoking.
 
smoked cheese is wonderful...i want to try smoking hard boiled eggs and then making deviled eggs. I've read that they are very good. I did also cold smoke some perogies last weekend for an experiment and they turned out very good. I will post up pics with some upcoming cold smokes when the weather is better for cold smoking.

Sounds yummy. Will enjoy seeing the pics.
 
Filet Mignon w/ Roasted Potato and Wilted Spinach with Roasted Carnival Tomato Medley

The title says it all. The roasted potatoes were simply baby potatoes with fresh rosemary, sea salt, pepper and olive oil. The spinach was made by wilting baby spinach in a large pot with olive oil and salt and adding to it carnival tomatoes that were roasted on the BBQ with a little olive oil and balsamic vinegar.

Potatoes and Tomatoes

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The finished tomatoes

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Ready to Serve

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To good NOT to eat!!

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Admittedly, filet mignon is not my favorite cut of beef (give me a thick juicy rib-eye any day!!), but it'll do...
 
Decided to take a page from Brian (bdavis466) and rotisserie me a tri-tip roast -

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I rubbed it with avocado oil, SusieQ's Santa Maria spice blend and a little bit of Kitchen Bouquet Browning Sauce....it tasted as good as it looks!!
 
I guess it was a tri-tip weekend!!!! LoL

also did a tri-tip over the weekend, I marinated my tri-tip with:

E.V.O.O.
Red wine vinegar
Fresh garlic
Used coffee grinds
Garlic Salt
Garlic Powder
Black pepper
Onion Powder







For the shrimp, I left the shell on and in the bag they came in from the butcher I threw in some:

E.V.O.O.
Butter
Fresh Garlic

Then on the grill I sprinkled them with:

Garlic Salt
Garlic Powder
Black pepper
Onion Powder
Parsley










Then steamed some veggies and also made some cheddar and broccoli rice:

 
I'd love to do steak & shrimp on the barby BUT the wife has a serious shellfish allergy so we don't mess with it. I grew up eating a lot of fish/mussels/clams/etc and fresh ciopino (only in San Francisco!) is my all-time favorite. So whenever we go out to restaurants, I try to order the best fish dishes I can find (sadly in these parts it's mostly fish/shrimp tacos but beggars can't be choosers).

I'll just look at your plate and long for some fresh seafood.....:nemo:
 

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