Lettuce Wraps ( Like Changs but way better)

Wash/dry lettuce. I like Butter.

Mix up a nice drizzle sauce. Soy, rice vinegar, fresh grated ginger etc.

Chop some Fungus and green onion.

Sear and chop chicken into small pieces.

Return to pan and saute with veg and fungus. Don't forget to add some Waterchestnuts for crunch and to throw in a nice stir fry sauce.

Serve with some sauces and some bean sprouts.

Very, very Tasty.

Breakfast Burrito

Falafel

Tabbouleh


Fixins


Put it all together Butter Lettuce, Red Onion, Cucumbers, Fresh Dill and Falafel topped with a yogurt sauce (yogurt, Lemon Juice, minced Garlic, diced cucumbers, chopped fresh Dill) with the Tabbouleh on the side. Yumm Yumm.

Spicy crab cake, Ginger Almond Buckwheat Soba and Sesame Chard with mushroom

Yum Yum!

Cumin-Pepper Flank Steak with Red Quinoa Swiss Chard and Chimichurri

Rub your flank steak with Cumin, a little salt, pepper and crushed red pepper.

Make a nice Chimichurri, think Parsley, Garlic, Green Onion, Horseradish, Salt, Pepper, Vinegar and a little Olive Oil. puree till thick and pungent. Steam some Chard. Cook up your Quinoa. Grill your Flank Steak.

Eat.

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.

Steamed Clams / Oysters

Matt came to visit me in Bremerton. We thought it'd be nice to hit up the seafood while we were there. That's Matt shucking oysters in North Bay...

We also went clamming. This was an excellent beach for Manila and Native Littlenecks.
40 apiece per the regs.

Once you're home you should purge your clams. All shellfish will purge sand from themselves if placed in clean saltwater... But here we've added cornmeal to the water so they also feed on it. Basically, we were "breading" them on the inside! Just remember to change the water often while purging the clams, otherwise they'll use up the oxygen in the water and die.

While you're purging your clams you may as well eat up the Oysters you grabbed...
since they're just laying around...
For our Oysters, we poached them in their own liquor with butter and garlic, then topped them off with green onions and a little Tabasco.

They're a bit big to be considered "shooters", but hey, whatever.

Once the clams are purged and scrubbed, you're ready to steam!
Looks like we picked up Manila, Native Littlenecks, a couple Horse Clams, and even a Mussel.

Chopping up a little Parsley.

We're going for subtle with the clams, nothing overly fancy. Just steamed in a local white wine with a little parsley and green onion.

Steamed Clams

Top them off with a little fresh cracked black pepper, and a little chopped tomato.
Serve them with some crusty bread for soppin' up the juices.

And then, you're officially a glutton.