More Sunday night cooking

Yesterday we had a wonderful lunch at Tea Bar then walked to the corner to Home Grown Foods. We got a rack of lamb and lamb brats to cook tonight. I found a recipe on the Food and Wine website for Rosemary Rack of Lamb. It was very simple. I put salt and ground pepper on the rack. I lit the Green Egg and I decided that I need to do a better job having the fire spread all of the Green Egg rather than in one spot. It took a little longer to get the fire going and then when I put the lamb on for a couple of minutes the temp was 600 degrees. Fortunately it was side of the lamb with fat on it. The recipe called for 2 tbs of butter and 2 tbs of olive oil melted together which were brushed on the lamb every 2 or 3 minutes with 5 sprigs of fresh rosemary. I cooked it for 40 minutes and maintained the heat at 350 degrees. Here is a photo of the lamb after 20 minutes. I added the brats and some Rosemary Turkey burgers in the last 15 minutes. I sliced the rack of lamb and topped it with fresh thyme, parsley, oregano and rosemary. It was delicious and so easy.

Sunday night cooking

We decided to have a couple of friends over and cook several items on the grill. We had to have the Rosemary Turkey burgs again along with Butterball Cracked Pepper Turkey Tenderloins, a couple of bone in porkchops, beef brats with jalepeno and chedder cheese and fresh pineapple. Here it is ready to go on the grill. Our grill temp hovered around 300 degrees. I put the turkey tenderloins on and turned them every 5 minutes for 30 minutes. I added the other items after 20 minutes and ended up cooking them for about 15 minutes. The pineapple was only on for 3 minutes. Everything was seasoned as previously discussed but on the pork chop I used Penzey's BBQ 2000. It was milder than the new Penzet's Arizona seasoning, which I had used less of by the way. I may a salad with the sweet large yellow tomatoes and drizzled it with olive oil and balsamic glaze. It was top with Kraft shredded parm. The table was ready for us to enjoy. Our dessert was Sally's Rhubarb cake!

Food for the weekend with meat on the BGE and fresh veggies

Last night I stopped at Home Grown Foods then went to Smillies for groceries for the weekend. I started the grill then put a pork tenderloin, rosemary turkey burgers and country ribs on the grill. I had put soy sauce on the plain tenderloin and salt, peppered and Arizona's Seasoned the rest of the meat. I jumped in the pool and let it all cook for an hour. I had new potatoes on the stove and more fresh corn to put on the grill near the end. Again the BGE temp was 300 degrees. I turned the meat every 10 minutes or so and cooked the corn in foil in the last 20 minutes. We added fresh tomatoes to the mix and had another wonderful fresh meal plus food to give to family and to take to the lake. For a snack I got fresh Milsap Farms edamame at the market. What a wonderful flavor compared to frozen and the color green was amazing!

Rosemary Turkey Burgers and Primary Elections on August 3rd

My friend Amy, from work, likes to share recipes and her passion for good food. Months ago she told me about a ground turkey and rosemary recipe. I finally tried it on Tuesday. I bought a 1.2lb package of ground turkey, cut fresh rosemary from my garden and added 2-3 tablespoons of mayo along with sea salt and Penzey's California Pepper. I mixed it all with my hands and prepared 3 patties. I put a new Penzey's Arizona spice on both sides of the patties and put them on the grill at 300 degrees. I'm having trouble these days getting the temp regulated any higher. I cooked the burgers for 20 minutes, turning a couple of times, along side of 2 fresh ears of corn wrapped in foil with butter, salt and pepper. I boiled some lovely new potatoes from Home Grown Foods on the stove top for about 30 minutes with fresh green beans from my sister's garden. We also had tomatoes from Cathy's garden. We watched election results on TV then my sister flew in from the east coast and we went to our cousin's watch party to see him win the Primary for the 7th District Congressional seat! Send a citizen and businessman to DC!

Best time of the year for Locavore

Home Grown foods is a wonderful new addition to our neighborhood and they have new things all of the time. I bought Groose Farms Bratwurst with Jalapeno and Cheese and cooked it on the BGE for 30 minutes at 300 degrees then prepared a dish of fresh vegetables, which included eggplant, onion, tomatoes, mushrooms, fresh herbs, sea salt and pepper. Note in the picture the different colors of eggplant. We did not notice any difference in taste of the different varieties. The vegetables cooked for 45 minutes sauted in olive oil on my gas range. I also cooked basmati rice. We ended up slicing the brats and mixing them in with the vegetables.

Gary's birthday in July

Since we had not been out of town in awhile and Gary had a meeting in Kansas City we traveled up there on his birthday. My friend Teresa recommended Blustem for dinner and it was a delight.Located in the Westport area of KC, the chefs have been getting rave reviews. I chose the 5 course and Gary chose the 3 course. The hightlights were the presentation of course but my favorite dish was the rich pasta with crab and Gary loved his generous vintage beef dish. The scallop dish was divine too. Have a look.

The next day I got to go to Penzey's Spices which thrilled me and Whole Foods. At Whole Foods I bought Habanero Green Chili Chicken sausages and cooked them on the Green Egg when we got home along with Nan bread. My sister loves Indian food and it looked good so I bought it too. My sister brought Gary a gooseberry pie for his birthday. Yum yum.