July 2011
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Chili-Lime Chicken Skewers
I love cooking with skewers, especially for chicken. Instead of grilling a big piece of chicken breast, cutting them up into smaller chunks gives it more flavor (if you’re using a marinade). It also grills faster and gives you more char per square inch, which mean even more delicious food.
For the chicken skewers, I wanted to give it a flavor profile that was refreshing with a kick since...
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Cedar Planked Salmon w/ Soy-Ginger Marinade
A few years ago, this farm-to-table restaurant called Founding Farmers opened next to the IMF (not badass Ethan Hunt, but maid-chaser Dominique Strauss-Kahn). I went there countless times because the menu was so delicious and the drinks were to die for. In fact, I probably brought every out-of-towner to Founding Farmers.
One of my favorite items was the Cedar Planked Salmon. Growing up, I was...
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Skewered Spicy Shrimp
The deliciousness of our previous Grilled Truffle Shrimp Skewers inspired us to look for similar recipes. Rob loves spicy food and Jess loves Mark Bittman’s recipes — they are simple yet oh-so-tasty.
Tip: Our wood skewers from last week started molding! Be sure they are dry before you store them. Try to get bamboo ones too.
We found one from him called Skewered Spicy Shrimp and...
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Gazpacho
Jess loves this blog called The Pioneer Woman. It’s the blog of a lady that came from a small town, then went to a big city in Cali, then fell in love with the a cowboy and now resides in the middle of nowhere. She keeps a blog of her life. In fact, her life is so interesting that a gazillion people go to it every day. The Pioneer lady has some pretty good stuff, one of them being this...
