Cheating at Indian Curry

Boilin up a little Quinoa.

Tossing some frozen Green Beans, Broccoli and Asparagus in a jar of Seeds of Change Madras simmer sauce and heating thru...

Got me some box wine in an enameled tin cup and I am livin large!

Bacon Asparagus Pizza!

So David wanted to use up the asparagus his parents gave him, so he made pizza. First you start out with homemade pizza dough, and brush it with olive oil. Top lightly with mozzarella. Then you add the chopped asparagus and cherry tomatoes. Add crumbled bacon.

Dot with Goat Cheese. Season with freshly ground black pepper.

Bake and enjoy.

Leftovers

We had a bunch of leftovers for dinner yesterday. Strawberries and grilled asparagus and salad and grilled toast and smoked pork roast. Yummy!

Standard Steaks and Asparagus

Gotta fatten up y'know...

The RIGHT and ONLY way to cook asparagus.

Lemon Time Cod

Take your Cod Piece, drop it on some foil, toss on some diced Shallot, some minced Garlic, some fresh chopped Thyme, diced Tomatoes, Lemon juice and zest. Top with Salt and Pepper to taste. Add 1-2 tbsp water for steam. Wrap up and bake to desired doneness.

Serve over steamed Asparagus.

Yum.

As an alternative you could put the tomatoes on fresh at the end or use Sun Dried Tomatoes...

A Different Kind of Kalbi

Matt made this last summer while I was crashing on his living room floor. It's good.
Really Good.

Get yourself another onion named Ingrid... and a can of 7-up(yours).
This is going to make up your premarinade.

Wow... That fish I ate last night must've gone bad.
It's really putting the zap on my mind.
Crank up the Floyd man.

Um, yeah. Anyway, grate the onion. You'll need a 1/2 cup of it.

Mix the grated onion, 2 Tbs of Honey (I subbed the 7-up(yours) in for the honey.)
Then let your meat soak in this for a couple hours and then drain. You don't need to get all the onion off of the steak, it's ok. I'm using a flank steak for this bit.

Now you'll need to make up your real Marinade... prep some garlic & onions. Maybe six onions and 8 - 10 cloves of garlic.

Add the garlic and onions to:
1.5 c soy
1/4 c sugar
1/4 c sesame oil
3 Tbs vegetable oil

Let this marinate at least a couple of hours... or longer.
Note - reserve some of the marinade for reducing on the stove to make an insanely flavored drizzling sauce for the meat... or your rice... or whatever. I'd probably eat cardboard with that sauce on it.

Introduce your meat to the grill.

I served the steak up sliced thin, with mandarin orange squeezed over the top. Sides included grilled asparagus, grilled scallions, salad, and a brown/red/wild rice mix.

This marinade would be wonderful on most beef. I think next I'll do skewers with it.

Rare beef with soy curry sauce, Khao Gram Purple Jasmine sticky rice and steamed Asparagus

Season steak to your liking and grill to desired doneness.

Fry Curry spices in a little oil until bloomed and fragrant.

Add chicken stock and small amount soft tofu and puree till smooth. For a variation you could use Soy milk (unflavored).

Steam your Asparagus.
Slice beef thin and drizzle everything with curry sauce.
Eat.

Beef Tenderloin with Rosemary Pinot Noir Sauce, Prosciutto wrapped Asparagus with Carmelized Capers and Wild Rice blend

First wrap asparagus with prosciutto, drizzle with E.V.O. Oil pepper and very light salt to taste.
Grill!

Dredge Beef Tenderloin in a mix of flour, garlic powder, onion powder, s&p and crushed red pepper. For this I used several Chipotles...


Brown on all sides add a sprig of Rosemary and finish in 500 degree oven maybe 7 min.
Remove beef to rest. Deglaze pan with Pinot Noir and reduce. Finish the sauce with a little butter. Caramelize the capers in a nonstick skillet with butter and sugar to top the asparagus. The salty Caper with the sweet Caramel is delightful.


Now the best part. The eating...

Asparagus: This Too Shall Pass

The Asparagus is Up!
Time to head out to the river delta and pick the wild stuff.