Memorial Day Menu

readandpostrosie said:

what time?

4pm.

Boron

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Boron Elgar said:

Tomorrow we will be having:

Ribs
Fresh fruit salad
Home made Mac and Cheese
Garlic bread
Cole slaw
Crudite platter with a Ranch Dressing Dip

Dessert is chocolate chip cookies and 3 kinds of home made ice cream

Deep, dark chocolate with almonds (made with a mix of bittersweet
chocolates from Trader Joe's and Cote d'Or Brut (86% cacao).

Vanilla, with Penzey's Vanilla beans

Brown sugar Ice Cream with Poppycock "Just the Nuts" added in...sort
of a Praline taste to it

Happy Holiday to all

I cooked yesterday since I have to work tonight, but there is plenty of
leftover chicken and the kebabk mix. :-)

I started marinating the chicken Saturday morning in Italian salad
dressing mixed with just a little fajita spice and a smidgin of chili
powder. Grilled that over a wood fire in the smoker and also marinated
and grilled kebabs made from Zuchinni squash, shrimp and mushrooms.

I stripped the kebabs into a bowl and added some melted butter and
sesame seeds before serving.

Also had corn on the cob and baked yam.

Pic here:

http://tinypic.com/1114dbb.jpg

A good memorial day to all!
--
Peace!
Om

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a [censored]"
-- Jack Nicholson

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Boron Elgar said:

JoeSpareBedroom said:

"Boron Elgar" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Tomorrow we will be having:

Ribs
Fresh fruit salad
Home made Mac and Cheese
Garlic bread
Cole slaw
Crudite platter with a Ranch Dressing Dip

Dessert is chocolate chip cookies and 3 kinds of home made ice cream

So? You want a medal for this?

No, but I have a couple of cheeks you can plant a kiss between.

Boron

<lol>
--
Peace!
Om

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a [censored]"
-- Jack Nicholson

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Bob Terwilliger' virtualgoth@die_spammer.biz said:

Margarita (lime-orange-tequila) chicken

I have _got_ to try that...
Recipe pretty please? :-)
--
Peace!
Om

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a [censored]"
-- Jack Nicholson

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kilikini said:

"Bob Terwilliger" <virtualgoth@die_spammer.biz> wrote in message
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Boron said:

Tomorrow we will be having:

Ribs
Fresh fruit salad
Home made Mac and Cheese
Garlic bread
Cole slaw
Crudite platter with a Ranch Dressing Dip

Dessert is chocolate chip cookies and 3 kinds of home made ice cream

Deep, dark chocolate with almonds (made with a mix of bittersweet
chocolates from Trader Joe's and Cote d'Or Brut (86% cacao).

Vanilla, with Penzey's Vanilla beans

Brown sugar Ice Cream with Poppycock "Just the Nuts" added in...sort
of a Praline taste to it

Sounds very good, and I hope you have a wonderful holiday! I'm serving
pretty much what I posted earlier:

Assorted olives

Peel-and-eat shrimp with
cocktail sauce
calypso sauce
sour-cream-and-dill sauce
mango-habañero-curry sauce

Buffalo-burgers stuffed with blue cheese

Margarita (lime-orange-tequila) chicken

Grilled Louisiana hot links

"Potato Goop" (herb-garlic) kebabs with:
catsup
sun-dried tomato mayo
red-wine vinegar
sour-cream-and-dill sauce

Caprese (tomato-mozzarella-basil) Salad

Jude's cold Avocado-Edamame Soup (Thanks, Jude!)

Pasta Salad with:
Italian green beans
half-dried halved grape tomatoes
pine nuts
balsamic vinaigrette

Fruit Platter with
bananas
fresh pineapple chunks
fresh mango slices
fresh carambola (starfruit) slices
halved strawberries

LadyJane's Pavlova (Thanks, LadyJane!) with:
Grand Marnier whipped cream
the fruit listed above

Memorial Day is set aside to remember and honor those who have died while
serving in the U.S. armed forces. I consider myself fortunate that I

spent

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fourteen years in the Navy through the 1980's and 1990's, including three
tours to the Persian Gulf (which became known as the "Arabian Gulf" for
political reasons during my service), and NONE of my shipmates died. So I
honor those who have died in service to my country, but the holiday isn't

as

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personal for me as it could be -- and I'm glad for that.

(But even though I'm no longer on active duty, I'm still in a military
environment: After I finish feeding my fourteen guests, I'll be waddling

off

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to work a twelve-hour shift as contractor support of ongoing combat
operations.)

Bob

Wow! If I'm really feeling up to it, I may make packet of Ramen noodles.
Seriously.

kili

Hey Ramen can be good dressed up a bit. :-)
Some steamed shrimp, a few veggies and leftover meat of just about any
kind cut into strips goes well, and a quartered hard boiled egg?
--
Peace!
Om

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a Son of a [censored]"
-- Jack Nicholson

JoeSpareBedroom said:

"Boron Elgar" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Tomorrow we will be having:

Ribs
Fresh fruit salad
Home made Mac and Cheese
Garlic bread
Cole slaw
Crudite platter with a Ranch Dressing Dip

Dessert is chocolate chip cookies and 3 kinds of home made ice cream

So? You want a medal for this?

And your contribution to anything here is what?? I'm with sf on this one.
You smell like a sqwertz wanna-be.

aem said:

sf said:

I found some country style ribs on sale for 99¢ lb, so we're having
that today. Bob's margarita chicken sounds delicious although I'm not
finding a recipe that doesn't call for margarita mix. [snip]

Margarita mix is bad stuff, both for the drinks and for the chicken.
Instead, I brown chicken pieces well, then flame and deglaze the pan
with tequila. Add garlic, onion if desired, lime zest, lime juice and
triple sec. Some minced jalapeño, occasionally. A little chicken
stock if necessary to have enough liquid. Simmer till done. Pretty
good. -aem

Sounds good and more like I usually cook, so thanks - but I thought
his was a marinade!
--

Ham and eggs.
A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.

Boron Elgar said:

Tomorrow we will be having:

Ribs
Fresh fruit salad
Home made Mac and Cheese
Garlic bread
Cole slaw
Crudite platter with a Ranch Dressing Dip

Dessert is chocolate chip cookies and 3 kinds of home made ice cream

Deep, dark chocolate with almonds (made with a mix of bittersweet
chocolates from Trader Joe's and Cote d'Or Brut (86% cacao).

Vanilla, with Penzey's Vanilla beans

Brown sugar Ice Cream with Poppycock "Just the Nuts" added in...sort
of a Praline taste to it

Happy Holiday to all

My father says thanks for the thoughts and thanks that he's not among the
"memorials".

Jill <--whose father was in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam (too old for Desert
Storm or Sand)

"Boron Elgar" wrote
"Felice Friese" wrote

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"Boron Elgar" wrote in message

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Tomorrow we will be having:

Ribs
Fresh fruit salad
Home made Mac and Cheese
Garlic bread
Cole slaw
Crudite platter with a Ranch Dressing Dip

Dessert is chocolate chip cookies and 3 kinds of home made ice cream

<snip ohmigod descriptions>

Yeah, but I'll win the Fat Prize:

Chicken: floured, eggwashed, Panko'd and fried to a fare-thee-well in
bubbling Crisco
Spoon bread made with cream, butter and eggs and served with additional
butter

And I'll do it next year, too. If I live.

Felice

If you like, we can split a prescription for Lipitor.

Boron

Forgot to add dessert: James Beard's butter-loaded shortcake with
strawberries and whipped cream.

Share Lipitor? I'll need mine and yours, too.

Felice

sf said:

Quoted message said:

Margarita mix is bad stuff, both for the drinks and for the chicken.
Instead, I brown chicken pieces well, then flame and deglaze the pan
with tequila. Add garlic, onion if desired, lime zest, lime juice and
triple sec. Some minced jalapeño, occasionally. A little chicken
stock if necessary to have enough liquid. Simmer till done. Pretty
good. -aem

Sounds good and more like I usually cook, so thanks - but I thought
his was a marinade!

Sorry I didn't read this until now. Yes, my margarita chicken *is* a
marinade. First, you butterfly a chicken. Then you mix orange juice, lime
juice, tequila, and salt together and marinade the chicken in that mixture
for several hours. When you're ready to cook, you slather the chicken with
butter, sprinkle it with paprika, and grill.

The original recipe came from _The New West Coast Cuisine_, though I don't
think I follow the recipe very closely.

Bob

sf said:

Quoted message said:

"Potato Goop" (herb-garlic) kebabs with:
catsup
sun-dried tomato mayo
red-wine vinegar
sour-cream-and-dill sauce

Sounds interesting! Please expand on this one...... cut up potatoes
(marinated in an herb-garlic mixture) roasted on a kebab? I have all
the ingredients, just need a little more structure.

The "Potato Goop" recipe is from the _Cafe Beaujolais_ cookbook. You start
off by par-cooking potatoes. The recipe calls for new potatoes, but you can
use any potato, though the cooking method will differ depending on what kind
of potato you choose. If you choose russet potatoes, you'd cut them into
two-inch cubes, brush them with oil, and bake them for about 20 minutes. If
you choose new potatoes, you boil them whole for about 15 minutes. If you
choose Yukon Gold or some other full-size waxy potato, you cut them into
cubes and parboil them. Then you roll the potatoes in a "goop" made from
olive oil, mashed garlic, and herbs. (I forget which herbs the recipe
specifies. I used a mixture of rosemary and Penzey's Herbes de Provence.)
The original recipe has you then bake the potatoes on sheet pans until they
get crusty, but I skewered and grilled them instead. When the potatoes are
done, sprinkle with coarse salt.

Bob

Bob Terwilliger said:

sf said:

Quoted message said:

Margarita mix is bad stuff, both for the drinks and for the chicken.
Instead, I brown chicken pieces well, then flame and deglaze the pan
with tequila. Add garlic, onion if desired, lime zest, lime juice and
triple sec. Some minced jalapeño, occasionally. A little chicken
stock if necessary to have enough liquid. Simmer till done. Pretty
good. -aem

Sounds good and more like I usually cook, so thanks - but I thought
his was a marinade!

Sorry I didn't read this until now. Yes, my margarita chicken *is* a
marinade. First, you butterfly a chicken. Then you mix orange juice, lime
juice, tequila, and salt together and marinade the chicken in that mixture
for several hours. When you're ready to cook, you slather the chicken with
butter, sprinkle it with paprika, and grill.

The original recipe came from _The New West Coast Cuisine_, though I don't
think I follow the recipe very closely.

Thanks, Bob!... youe method is now saved.

Ohhh slathering the chicken with butter before grilling sounds
absolutely delish!

Taking a cue fromwhat your posted, I went with an orange juice
theme.... I marinated my chicken in orange juice and garlic for a few
hours. When I put it on the grill, I sprinkled some cinnamon on top.
Bad timing! The cinnamon burned, even though the heat was medium.
Next time, the cinnamon will go straight into the OJ marinade. Oh,
well.... my idea came too late - and that's how it goes.

Oh, well. It tasted good anyway.

🙂
--

Ham and eggs.
A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.

Bob Terwilliger said:

sf said:

Quoted message said:

"Potato Goop" (herb-garlic) kebabs with:

Sounds interesting! Please expand on this one...... cut up potatoes
(marinated in an herb-garlic mixture) roasted on a kebab? I have all
the ingredients, just need a little more structure.

The "Potato Goop" recipe is from the _Cafe Beaujolais_ cookbook. You start
off by par-cooking potatoes. The recipe calls for new potatoes, but you can
use any potato, though the cooking method will differ depending on what kind
of potato you choose. If you choose russet potatoes, you'd cut them into
two-inch cubes, brush them with oil, and bake them for about 20 minutes. If
you choose new potatoes, you boil them whole for about 15 minutes. If you
choose Yukon Gold or some other full-size waxy potato, you cut them into
cubes and parboil them. Then you roll the potatoes in a "goop" made from
olive oil, mashed garlic, and herbs. (I forget which herbs the recipe
specifies. I used a mixture of rosemary and Penzey's Herbes de Provence.)
The original recipe has you then bake the potatoes on sheet pans until they
get crusty, but I skewered and grilled them instead. When the potatoes are
done, sprinkle with coarse salt.

Bob

I like the idea of rolling par boiled potato cubes in an herb, garlic
and olive oil "goop" - and then cooking them until crusty. Thanks for
specifying 2" cubes! I would have probably made them smaller.

Thanks!
--

Ham and eggs.
A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.

Boron Elgar said:

Happy Holiday to all

Thank you! I celebrated my 27th birthday again. 🙂 (For the 16th
time...) We had our celebration on Sunday.

We had:
grilled chicken with garlic marinade
grilled beef and turkey burgers
grilled hot dogs (Nathan's and chicken)
tossed green salad
baked beans (from scratch)
grilled fresh sweet corn
grilled veggies - yellow squash, zuchini, Portobellos, onions and
garlic heads (in olive oil)
fruit tray (watermerlon, pineapple grapes, cantalope)
popover rolls
grilled french bread slices (for the garlic, above)
sliced tomatoes and cukes
and Carrot cake (my fave) 🙂

Needless to say, we had a tough time flying back home after having
consumed all that food. 😉

-L.

On Mon 29 May 2006 10:24:58p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it -L.?

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Boron Elgar said:

Happy Holiday to all

Thank you! I celebrated my 27th birthday again. 🙂 (For the 16th
time...) We had our celebration on Sunday.

We had:
grilled chicken with garlic marinade
grilled beef and turkey burgers
grilled hot dogs (Nathan's and chicken)
tossed green salad
baked beans (from scratch)
grilled fresh sweet corn
grilled veggies - yellow squash, zuchini, Portobellos, onions and
garlic heads (in olive oil)
fruit tray (watermerlon, pineapple grapes, cantalope)
popover rolls
grilled french bread slices (for the garlic, above)
sliced tomatoes and cukes
and Carrot cake (my fave) 🙂

Needless to say, we had a tough time flying back home after having
consumed all that food. 😉

That sounds like the perfect Memorial Day meal! I wouldn't have known
where to start...or stop. :-)

--
Wayne Boatwright @¿@¬
_____________________

sf said:

Ohhh slathering the chicken with butter before grilling sounds
absolutely delish!

steak butters will work on anything grilled, its just call that because
its normally used just on steaks. they add a special flavor when used
and i use them often

Grizzman

sf said:

Taking a cue fromwhat your posted, I went with an orange juice
theme.... I marinated my chicken in orange juice and garlic for a few
hours. When I put it on the grill, I sprinkled some cinnamon on top.
Bad timing! The cinnamon burned, even though the heat was medium.
Next time, the cinnamon will go straight into the OJ marinade. Oh,
well.... my idea came too late - and that's how it goes.

Oh, well. It tasted good anyway.

Were you the original poster of the Naranja Cinnamon Chicken recipe? This
sounds like a close cousin.

Bob

On Mon 29 May 2006 10:03:00p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it sf?

Quoted message said:

Bob Terwilliger said:

sf said:

> Margarita mix is bad stuff, both for the drinks and for the
> chicken. Instead, I brown chicken pieces well, then flame and
> deglaze the pan with tequila. Add garlic, onion if desired, lime
> zest, lime juice and triple sec. Some minced jalapeño,
> occasionally. A little chicken stock if necessary to have enough
> liquid. Simmer till done. Pretty good. -aem

Sounds good and more like I usually cook, so thanks - but I thought
his was a marinade!

Sorry I didn't read this until now. Yes, my margarita chicken *is* a
marinade. First, you butterfly a chicken. Then you mix orange juice,
lime juice, tequila, and salt together and marinade the chicken in
that mixture for several hours. When you're ready to cook, you slather
the chicken with butter, sprinkle it with paprika, and grill.

The original recipe came from _The New West Coast Cuisine_, though I
don't think I follow the recipe very closely.

Thanks, Bob!... youe method is now saved.

Ohhh slathering the chicken with butter before grilling sounds
absolutely delish!

Taking a cue fromwhat your posted, I went with an orange juice
theme.... I marinated my chicken in orange juice and garlic for a few
hours. When I put it on the grill, I sprinkled some cinnamon on top.
Bad timing! The cinnamon burned, even though the heat was medium.
Next time, the cinnamon will go straight into the OJ marinade. Oh,
well.... my idea came too late - and that's how it goes.

Oh, well. It tasted good anyway.

🙂

This one doesn't burn...

* Exported from MasterCook *

Cinnamon Chicken

Recipe By :
Serving Size : 2 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Chicken Marinades
Poultry

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
-------- ------------ --------------------------------
1/4 c Oil
1/4 c Orange juice
1/3 c Honey
2 ts Coarse-grained mustard
2 ts Cinnamon
2 Garlic cloves, crushed
1 tb Fresh lemon juice
Salt & pepper, to taste
2 Chicken breast halves

Combine all ingredients except chicken in blender container. Blend
until thoroughly emulsified. Pour marinade over chicken and marinate,
covered, for 6 hours or overnight, turning occasionally.

Bring chicken to room temperature 1 hour before serving. Grill breasts
for 6-10 minutes per side, depending on heat and thickness of breasts,
basting with marinade several times.

Variation: Substitute juice of 1 lime for orange and lemon juice.

--
Wayne Boatwright @¿@¬
_____________________

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Boron Elgar said:

Happy Holiday to all

Thank you! I celebrated my 27th birthday again. 🙂 (For the 16th
time...) We had our celebration on Sunday.

Happy Birthday!! I celebrated my 39th birthday (for the 2nd time) on Friday.
DH surprised me by flying my mom down to take care of DD and then whisked me
away to Galveston to stay at a very nice hotel overnight.

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We had:
grilled chicken with garlic marinade
grilled beef and turkey burgers
grilled hot dogs (Nathan's and chicken)
tossed green salad
baked beans (from scratch)
grilled fresh sweet corn
grilled veggies - yellow squash, zuchini, Portobellos, onions and
garlic heads (in olive oil)
fruit tray (watermerlon, pineapple grapes, cantalope)
popover rolls
grilled french bread slices (for the garlic, above)
sliced tomatoes and cukes
and Carrot cake (my fave) 🙂

Needless to say, we had a tough time flying back home after having
consumed all that food. 😉

YUM!! What a spread!

We kept things simple (as we're trying to do more and more around here) and
had lemon-tarragon chicken, brown rice pilaf, and salad with spinach,
tomatoes, avocadoes, artichoke hearts, and capers. Dessert was Rice Krispies
treats and goodies from the giant Godiva basket DH got me.

Mary

Bob Terwilliger said:

sf said:

Taking a cue fromwhat your posted, I went with an orange juice
theme.... I marinated my chicken in orange juice and garlic for a few
hours. When I put it on the grill, I sprinkled some cinnamon on top.
Bad timing! The cinnamon burned, even though the heat was medium.
Next time, the cinnamon will go straight into the OJ marinade. Oh,
well.... my idea came too late - and that's how it goes.

Oh, well. It tasted good anyway.

Were you the original poster of the Naranja Cinnamon Chicken recipe? This
sounds like a close cousin.

No, but I posted a "cinnamon" chicken recipe many years ago that used
orange juice (among other things).
--

Ham and eggs.
A day's work for a chicken, a lifetime commitment for a pig.