Some summer fails

Posted on September 22, 2014 by chatty

Post the goods with the bads, right? I made these paleo muffins. Why, I don’t know. I don’t care for paleo baking, as I’ve mentioned over and over again. But the photos in The Paleo Kitchen are soooo purty. The kindergartener was looking through the book and first asked if we could make chocolate cayenne brownies from the book. I said no. Then she showed me the Lemon Raspberry Muffins and I said maybe.

These didn’t swirl so well. And, oh yeah, they are paleo so they are a bit eggy. Right out of the oven they were pretty okay. The next day, only edible when smeared with freezer jam. And, yikes, they do not look all that pretty:

WYSIWYG

Fail 2: Not a huge fail, but sorta. The kindergartener and I make vegetable kebabs for the husband to grill. We kinda did it wrong, I suspect. Too much space between the pieces of vegetables, maybe a little too small pieces. Maybe shoulda used whole mushrooms. So, he tried, but they kinda just fell apart. Better luck next time…

sorta veggie grill

Sorta veggie grill. Sorta cooked on one side, sorta not on the other. Plus, there’s a little pineapple in there. Not a veggie. Still, pretty tasty. That grill is fun.

Grill King

Posted on September 3, 2014 by chatty

The crown goes to the husband. Evidence: This grilled corn-on-the-cob. We used to soak then foil wrap then grill. Nope. The correct way to do it, the way they must do it at those state fairs, is to peel and grill with the husks open. So good. A kid favorite.

I missed this, all those years we didn’t have a grill. Sigh.

Grillin’ like a villain

Posted on August 3, 2014 by chatty

We were eating dinner on our deck one night and the husband said, “We need a new grill”.

“Yeah, we do,” I replied. Tried to play it casual, but inside I was like “YEAH, BABY!”

You see, while I like to post pictures of food and stuff that I bake and cook, it’s the husband that does the majority of the cooking in the household. And I’ve been dying to buy him a new grill as a birthday or father’s day gift, but I didn’t want it to come across as, “hey, here’s your new toy now go make me a steak”. It would be like the husband giving the wife a vacuum cleaner as a gift (let’s assume the wife was expecting something else).

Anyway. The husband got this sweet grill and has been having a blast playing with it. I want to take more photos of the foods he’s cooking up, but I tend to dig in and not care much about taking photos. Here are a couple where I wasted precious eating time …

1) Barbecued Chicken. Still tweaking the process, but the end result was the best-tasting chicken I’ve had in ages. Chicken is chicken. We eat it often because it is relativley inexpensive, easy to prepare, and the kid likes it. But then you make it this way and you WANT to eat the skin because it’s so darn crispy delicious. And just, yeah.

Oh yeah. He also tried grilling these vegetables, too.

2) Pork chop. Ripping the meat off the bone kind of thing. The kiddo asked to have a piece with a bone, so we shared this and split half of another chop that was more like a loin? or a rib? As the husband explained the one not pictured, was similar to a rib-eye steak (only it’s pork, of course). Whatever it was, it was amazing.