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DON’T USE LIGHTERFLUID PEOPLE!!!   Use a “Charcoal Chimney” or a big coffee can to start your coals.  I can smell lighterfluid from a mile away and it stays in the meat too!  While off the subject of what to grill and on the subject of how to grill, try brushing your grill with butter or oil for easier flipping and better striping.  (Wouldn’t hurt to scrape your grill clean either!) 

Grilling tips from the heart of KC (and we know our stuff)

Todd (not tOdd) 

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Here’s my recipe for Chicken Things!

First you take some Worcestershire Sauce and some Lime Juice and some Garlic Powder.  You can add Salt and Pepper too, to taste, whatever you like. If you’re going to marinate, it’s better to use just the juice for that and put the spices on later.  Really rub them into the meat.  You can use whatever meat you like I guess but it works the best with Chicken.  Or you could use Tofu I think.  I don’t eat tofu really but it seems like it would work.

So you get yourself some chicken breasts and cut them into strips.  Marinade them in one part lime, two parts Worcestershire overnight or for a couple hours at least.  Then rub those spices into the meat good.  Then put your chicken things on the broiler or grill (you can use foil so they don’t fall thru) for about 5-8 minutes.  Not too long or they wont be as juicy.  If you want to baste them while they cook, that’s a good idea, but please Make A New Batch Of Marinade.  Don’t use the same juice that the raw chicken sat in, yuck!

Use these things on salad, on a sandwich, in a pasta salad thingee, dip them in ranch dressing, anywhere you’d use chicken strips.  They’re AMAZING and easy.  Or you could leave the breasts whole and use it as a main course, with a veggie and some rice or something.  They’re still just as yummy.

Serlady in Chicago

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Here’s my recipe for Top Secret Pork Chops!

The absolute best secret for cooking Pork Chops is that you don’t cook them as long as you would cook any other meat.  Only til the juices run clear.

The second best (and way more secret) secret for cooking pork chops is to use Tobasco Sauce (actual tobasco please, there is no substitute) and Ground Cinnamon in equal parts on them.  Trust me here, it sounds strange but it’s the most amazing flavor when it’s done cooking.  Mix up the tobasco and cinnamon in a little bowl.  It should make a gritty kind of paste.  Kinda rub the paste into both sides of each chop and then put a little more on as they cook (broiler or grill works best).  Watch them closely; again, it doesn’t take long.  Put some applesauce on top to heat up about 5 minutes before they’re done and your guests will be salivating to know what you did to them.  Let them guess what “Secret” you put in.  No one is ever able to guess it but it’s always a hit.

Serlady in Chicago

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Hi Todd,

Ok, here’s a recipe for Steamed Fish Chinese Style. Great in the oven, but perfectly suited for an outside summer BBQ….

Steamed Moi (Hawaiian name for pacific threadfin, you can use any whole white fish..like a snapper, etc ) Chinese Style

1. leaving the head on, scale, clean, and gut  a whole Moi (pacific thread fin), Awa (Milkfish or Chanos chanos),  Snapper, or any other fish you’d like to try.  Make a few vertical slices on the bias across the side of the carcass from head to tail to stick the ginger slices in.

2. Preheat oven to 375 degrees or start your BBQ .

3.  cut several slices of fresh ginger and spring onions (the green Chinese kind).

4.  Make a marinade sauce using sesame oil, a  splash of shoyu, and a dash of oyster sauce.  Add chopped garlic or a bit of garlic black bean paste to this mixture if you like.

5.  Roll the fish in the sauce in a pan to get good coverage.

6.  Place ginger slices in the vertical cut slices in the fish.

7.  Place the fish in a tin foil pouch making sure you leave space in the pouch for steam….Don’t crunch the tin up much, just make a pouch with the top  accessible through a single fold.  At this point you can pack the pouches in a cooler or something to take to a secret BBQ location or some such.

8. Put fish in heated oven or on BBQ for about 12 -15 minutes depending on size of fish. 

9. Heat up to very hot some peanut oil in a sauce pan.

10. Remove fish from oven/bbq and open top of pouch.  Place on a serving dish and splash the super hot peanut oil on top of fish to crisp the skin up.  Sprinkle the chopped spring onions on top for garnish.

Serve with white rice family style; letting everyone pick at the fish with chop sticks.

Drink a beer!

Ok, that’s it………don’t forget to turn off the oven!

Aloha,   Mike

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Okay Todd!!

Get ready for the best steak in your life. I came up with this marinade myself.

Take 1 12 oz. beer, 1 cup brown sugar, seasoned salt (not too much never really measures how much I put in), a generous amount of worch. sauce, and a tablespoon of butter. Bring to a boil and pour onto steak of your choice. I use ribeye. Let sit for at least 2-3 hours covered. Or you can make it and put on your steaks and put them in a freezer bag and into the freezer for later. As you cook them, cook at a slow pace.  As you do, pour marinade on them periodically. They will have a brown color to them when done. SOOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOD! :):):):):)

Enjoy!!
Brian C

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