Chicken and mushrooms (stew)

Chicken and mushrooms are a excellent combination.

Half a chicken, cut into several pieces, brown on bacon fat in a deep pan,

remove and continue till all the pieces are browned.

Prepare the veggies, parsnips,onions, carrots and mushrooms, course dice.

After the chicken is browned, add the veggies…

season , I found a bit of Italian ham and and tossed that in also…

…..and cook till caramelized,

Return the chicken to the pot..

Add the carrots…

…and the mushrooms.

Cover and cook till chicken is done and carrots are tender.

Serve over a bed of rice, noodles would be better.

Cod Parmesan

Yep, more fish in your (my) diet and use of tomato sauce….

A thawed cod fillet. Breaded.

Fry the fish in a bit of oil.

Prepare a pan for the oven.

Add the fish topped with Parmesan

Mushrooms…

Cheese…

Sauce….

Bake…

Boil up some pasta….

Fish is cooked…

Serve over the pasta…

I added a single meat ball !

meatball sandwich

Recently, I cooked up a batch of tomato sauce, then later made a small batch of meatballs separately. Either I have small amount of pasta with sauce and meatballs, or I use the sauce  in different recipes.

The tomato sauce is made with a Mirpoix  base to incorporate some veggies into the mix. One can diced tomatoes, one can crushed tomatoes, one can tomato soup, one can tomato paste. Add red wine and stock. Similar to a previous post  Meat Balls and Tomato Sauce.

Slice some homemade or high quality bread and place in a 400 degree oven. A few mushrooms rescued from the fridge with olive oil in another tray and place in the oven.

Slice the meatballs, or some people mash them, I like them chunky. I also added some prepared green peppers.

(To prepare the green peppers, on a gas stove, works best, directly over the burner, char the exterior of the peppers to blacken, over the open flame. Place the charred peppers directly in a brown paper bag or enclosed container. Continue with each pepper till completed and go find something to do as the peppers cool. Remove the peppers from the bag. Cut out the stems and scrape the blackened charred skin from the peppers, severing the peppers into quarters and scrape the interior of ribs and seeds. You now have peppers steaks, so to speak. Containerize with olive oil for use. Don’t forget the classic pepper and egg sandwich sandwich! The peppers are good even fried in olive oil as a side dish.)

When the mushrooms are cooked and the bread crusty, remove from the oven. Add a layer of tomato sauce, Then the meatballs, green peppers, sauce  and mushrooms. Top with cheese(s).

 

Return to the oven and heat and or broil you desired doneness.

  

Summer chocolate stout brine smoked chicken

reposted from Peabody Pico

Peabody Pico

One of the few times Ive used my beer for cooking.

Stout brine for 1/2  chicken..  one gallon baggie…

modified recipe from A home Brew  Chef

http://www.homebrewchef.com/BeerBrinedChicken.html

 

Ingredients:

 

16 oz Chocolate StoutBeer*

1QuartsWater or ice

1/4Cup     Kosher Salt

1/8   Cup     Sugar

2        Each   Bay Leaves

Dried Thyme,

        Dried Oregano

1/2Each   Yellow Onion, peeled and chopped

  Lemon Juice

1Each   Large Garlic Clove, peeled and sliced

 * Basically the lighter the beer , the longer the brine time, recommended stout time is 6 hours

Halved a chicken , saved one half for another use.

Brine the chicken in a bag or container. This mix I let brine in the fridge for about 8 hours.

After the brine….

Fire up the smoker !

I opted for oak pellets and soaked oak chips… Not afraid of…

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Bok Choy beef burger

Cleaning up post drafts and pictures.

The return of the burger and first grill of the season.

I just t threw a grate over the charcoal starter with out emptying  out the coals.

sort of a mini turbo charcoal grille.

Just a picture of the finish,

Store bought sesame seed buns.

From May 30th..

You  need a  high gravity stout to make this a filling meal, or go with multiple session able lagers.

Start with the toasted  bottom bun, add bok choy leaves, burger, cheese, mushrooms, onion, sauce, and the top bun.

CUL !

Fish on the menu

Oh , maybe you noticed,  I’m supposed to have more fish in my diet?

A few meals consolidated into this post.

Pasta with fish.

Oh well , just go with frozen fish….

Garnish with grated cheese, hot pepper flakes and sardines !

Diced  fresh tomato would be good with this…

Ok , take a break from the hamburger… iterations of the fish sandwich…

frozen cod from the store, thawed… flour as usual..

seasoned flour…

Frying seems to have gone out of favor, just a small amount of oil, yes there will be some splatter, iIdon’t have a screen for the top of the fry pan. So just wipe the stove top periodically.

The golden brown coating…

If you like you can used the store bought air bread or hamburger rolls, is what I call it, but to bulk up the ‘which toast up some thick sliced homemade bread.

Simple but effective, you can spice it up herbs and hot peppers etc.

Here is another fish sandwich,  a grilled onion ring, a dollop of mayo and roasted hot pepper relish.

There you have it ….

 

 

Steak with roasted veggies

Dice up those veggies !

  Veggies, caramelization

Grille a steak to your liking….

Serve up with the veggies, bread and grated cheese…

Nuff said….

Breakfast wraps

Basically and scrambled egg in a wrap

Onion, sausage and left over potato sauteed,

drop in a couple of eggs and some seasonings and herbs

Scramble it up and place in a wrap with grated cheese.

Wrap, return to broiler, I like it crispy, garnish with ricotta and fresh fruit.