Why haven't I written this sooner? I actually won a national competition with these in 2012, why haven't I written this sooner? Well, later is better than never. I barely even need to write the recipes today...... click me .......Ah, the magic of the internet.
I paired Waffles a la Owen with scrambled eggs (my mom's favorite), sausage (my brother Kai's favorite) and hash browns (my favorite).
Today I made a dinner for some guests so I decided to make a steak dinner. Salad, a steak, grilled potatoes and donuts.
This is the kitchen all set up to get to work.
Grilled Potatoes. I've already given you the recipe in an earlier post so I'll just show the pictures.
This is me basting the cut up potatoes to put in an oven pan.
Steak. Take a steak and marinade it in garlic, lime juice, and A1 steak sauce. Marinade it for about an hour and a half. Then sear in a pan on high. After I seared it I used a thermometer to make sure it was around 145 degrees.
Salad. This is an easy one. Just take any bag of salad, chop some tomatoes, cucumbers and apples. Mix it together.
Chimmichurri sauce. Man chimmichurri is hard to spell!
1 cupfresh parsle
3/4 cupextra virgin olive oil
3 tablespoonsred wine vinegar
2 tablespoonsdried oregano
2 teaspoonsground cumin
1 teaspoonsalt
1/2 tablespoonminced garlic
Place all ingredients into a blender and blend until a good consistency.
Donuts. This is me rolling the donuts. The recipe for this one is found here
You don't have to use a special donut cutter. We didn't either.
The finished plate.
A donut and a donut hole.
Special thanks to Sister Puddicembe (I hope I spelled that right) and Sister Hibbert for trying this dinner and liking it. Here are some comments from them.
"Chef Owen, Your food was incredible. The steak was perfectly cooked and you did a great job with the salad. Thank you for all the work and keep it up! ~Sister Hibbert"
"Owen, You did an amazing job! I'm so full of yummy food I could BURST!! Thank you for sharing your talent and love of good cooking! You rock! Sister Puddicembe"
Part 2 of the Thanksgiving theme. If you can't understand the title, see part 1.
I'm going to do each part before and after. This is the turkey before. It is stuffed with apples, oranges, celery, herbs and spices.
And after. We cooked it at 500 degrees for 30 minutes. Then we lowered the temperature to 350 degrees until a meat thermometer read 161 degrees.
Rumaki- bacon cut in half and cooked slightly, whole water chestnuts, 1/2 cup ketchup, 1/2 cup sugar. Mix sugar and ketchup in dish. Microwave 1 minute, stir. Wrap bacon around chestnuts and secure with a toothpick. Place in ketchup mixture. Cook at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes.
Before.
During.
After. This is actually my Grandpa's recipe.
The continuation of stuffing. Here I am cutting apples.
This is me smiling while pouring broth in.
This is me spreading the stuffing in the pan.
And this is me putting a smile made out of butter. This smile simply melted.
Home Fries- cube potatoes. Cook in olive oil over medium heat, seasoned with garlic salt.
My favorite. I worked hard on these.
Before.
After.
The plating. Admire the presentation, if you must.
Sorry about being gone for quite some time. We had a baby then we moved then we moved again and we're going to move again in a few days so I thought I would get this blog going again. And to celebrate me coming back, we're doing Thanksgiving! And, of course, you can't have Thanksgiving without turkey! Today is part 1 of my 2 part series. So I hope this blog can get some more viewers again!
We defrosted this turkey by placing it in cold water. We changed the water to fresh water about every hour or so.
This shows the celery and onion. We don't always follow the recipe exactly, so this is more onion and celery than called for. We also doubled the recipe.
And this is me stirring the sausage. I think there was onion in there too.
The stuffing will be finished tomorrow!
This is the cranberry sauce which, as the picture shows, is me pouring the orange juice in. We also doubled this recipe because my dad really likes it!
My father had a friend over from his work. She's one of the sous chefs for this post. Her name is Laura Acosta and she is from Juarez, Mexico. She showed us how to make lots of delicious foods.
Salsa
2-3 roma tomatoes
1-4 jalapenos (however spicy you like it)
1 onion
salt
Place tomatoes, jalapenos and quartered onion in a pan over medium heat. Move them around until browned. Remover and cut stem off jalapenos and tomatoes. Place all ingredients in a blender and pulse until desired consistency. Add salt to your taste.
*Optional- we also added a little fresh cilantro from our garden*
Guacamole
1 avocado
tomato
onion
jalapeno
salt
Remove avocado from shell. Mix with tomato, onion, jalapeno and salt to taste. (we used the same tomato, onion and jalapeno that we cooked for the salsa).
Vegetable Taco Filling
bell peppers (any color)
onion
mushrooms
garlic salt
Slice peppers, onion and mushrooms. Cook in medium heat pan for a few minutes until cooked but still crispy. Season with garlic salt.
Beef Taco Filling
ground beef
onion
garlic
ancho chili powder
cayenne pepper
black pepper
Dice onion and mince garlic. Cook in skillet with beef until beef is cooked all the way. Season to your liking.
