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What better way to celebrate the summer solstice than grilling some steak? Made a steak salad tonight for dinner with home-made “steak house” dressing. Ok, fine… bonus picture, gotta show off the steak grilling on my Lodge cast-iron grill. That’s a nectarine I’m also grilling there.

Some of the corn salsa I made for the taco-bar-bq we had yesterday… I just kind of whipped it together and it turned out rather good… so I’ll share the recipe… it’s a big batch, but you could probably scale it down pretty easy. Continue reading →

Was gonna call this hot off the grill, but it wasn’t off yet…  burgers with jalapeno peppers and onions in them and some asparagus.

Anyone that knows me, knows I like to cook…. almost as much as I like to eat, but one of the challenges of cooking as a single person is quantities. Since my WLS it’s even more of an issue. typically I cook a small batch of something and it’s still three or four meals worth for me. But some things just don’t last.

I love my fresh made salsa, it’s great for a party, but when it’s just me… I can’t eat it all before it goes bad, so I typically buy Pace or some other jarred stuff. Well tonight I wanted to use some left overs to make nachos for dinner. I didn’t have any hot sauce, and I didn’t want to buy a whole jar of picante, so I figured I would try to make a small batch of pico de gallo. Pico is like salsa, but it isn’t really in any sort of sauce base, it’s basically some chopped tomato, onion, pepper seasoned with a bit of lime juice and such. So here’s what I started with.
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Ok, yea, I kinda grill all year round. But had it not been kinda rainy/windy out this weekend, I would have been grilling outside instead of in the garage. But hey… it still tasted great!

Here’s another recipe from back in my Twin City Fry & Grill days. Like falafel, the tabouleh is a middle eastern based dish made with parsley… it’s actually pretty easy, as long as you can use a knife.

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