Fish and Chips

Made some fish and chips last night. Instead of using pastry flour (I ran out) I used regular flour. It came out quite good. I also thinned the batter with a little more beer. Of course the fries were made with duck fat.

Love Love Food.com

Checked out this small local business today. Really interesting. Best of all I could not believe they had Slap Ya Mama seasoning. I have been ordering that on line. Now it is just a 5 minute drive away.  Very nice array of specialty items. If you live in the area be sure to check them out. You can check out their Facebook page here https://www.facebook.com/#!/lovelovefood?hc_location=stream or their website here http://lovelovefood.com/
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The Arrogant Chef Spicy Burger

Such a beautiful day yesterday that I thought I would try to come up with a new burger recipe to make on my charcoal grill. Here is what I came up with. The Arrogant Chef Spicy Burger. Basically 2 pounds of ground beef, a few healthy shakes of Club House La Grille Montreal Chicken Spice, 5 or 6 good squirts of Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce, and a few healthy squirts of Worcestershire Sauce. Condiments were duck fat fried mushrooms, tomato, and the usual stuff. Of course no need to ask yes those are duck fat fries. And for you photography types taken with an 85mm f/1.8 Nikon lens. To spruce up the image a friend of mine made me a small barn wood table top. It is about 3 X 3 feet. Now I just need to get more props. This was a great tasting burger.

Spicy Cajun Oriental Shrimp Olive Salad with Wonton Crackers

Have you heard of "37 Cooks"? It is a great blog about cooking with wonderful recipes. I got this recipe from the site. It is from Linda Mire one of the 37 cooks. Just a great little salad. If you can't find Slap Ya Mama seasoning I think any good canjun seasoning would do just fine.

 

Here is the recipe from Linda

 



Spicy Cajun Oriental Shrimp Olive Salad with Wonton Crackers

 Salad:

2 cups shrimp (peeled, boiled and chopped) *

1/2 cup water chestnuts (diced)
1/2 cup bean sprouts (ends removed and diced)
1/2 cup celery (diced)
1/2 cup red bell pepper (diced)
1/2 cup green onions (diced)
1 cup green olives with pimentos (diced)
1 cup black olives (diced)
Handful of bean sprouts (end removed) for garnish
Whole green olives for garnish
Black pepper for garnish

 

Place all ingredients in a large salad bowl (except the garnish items). Cover with plastic wrap and chill for an hour.

 Dressing for Salad:

3/4 cup olive oil

1/4 cup rice wine vinegar
2 teaspoon Slap Ya Mama Original Blend Cajun Seasoning
dash of sea salt and white pepper

 

Combine all ingredients and whisk well. Set aside.

 Wontons:

12 wonton wrappers (cut in half for triangles shape)

Olive oil

Baked Chicken Wings

Normally I like my wings deep fried in duck fat. Tonight I thought I would try a little healthier version of wings so I baked them. Ok the verdict is in. These baked wings are not bad at all. I think I still like the deep fried version better but these were pretty good and with a little tweaking they could be even better. Ingredients corn starch, chili powder, garlic powder, Slap Ya Mama seasoning, salt and brown sugar. Think next time I will cut back on the salt and chili somewhat. I just need to get them a little crispier.

Feiny's Rubs

I am soon going to get a chance to try out some of Chef Feiny's Rubs. The food on his site looks absolutely delicious. I will be posting pics with comments on all of the foods I cook with Chef Feiny's Rubs. Can't wait. Until then visit his website at http://www.feintastingfoods.com/#

Saturday Night Dinner

Sometimes you just want to play around with different ingredients you have in the house. Tonight I felt like having some wings. I had a tub of duck fat in the fridge so I thought I would fry them up in duck fat and then season them with Frank's Hot Sauce and a generous sprinkle of Slap Ya Mama seasoning. My wife bought a loaf of very fresh Italian bread. So I thought I would mix up a dipping oil using Tuyya olive oil. Tuyya is a very smooth, cold filtered olive oil from Morocco. Really nice taste. This was the result. Had this with a nice cold chardonnay. Not a bad way to start off Saturday night.