Chicken Fried Gourmet

Lemon Garlic Chicken Picatta with a twist

Recipe and Details coming soon.................

Pasta Carbonara

 
 
 

Fresh Red Pepper

Bacon

Rosemary

Parmesan Cheese

Egg yolks

Pasta

a touch of milk

Garlic

salt and pepper
 
 ALSO it ws brought to my attention that there is a new food blog here in Shreveport (we are a minority) Savoring Shreveport. They have a few posts up and mainly cover restaurants and local foodie events. The writing is good (a lot better than mine) and I look forward to what they can contribute to our little part of the food blogosphere. Check them out when you have a chance.

Meatballs are for Sundays

I love making a big batch of meatballs and spaghetti sauce on Sundays to eat throughout the week. Whether you are eating straight up meatballs and spaghetti, making meatball subs, grilled cheese sandwiches with sliced meatballs (provolone and parmesan cheese btw) and just eating the Sunday night leftovers for lunch, you just cannot go wrong with making a big batch to start out the week.

and YES I know I have posted twice in the same day, must be the end of the world or something..........
   

Rosemary Grilled Skirt Steak with Baby Spinach, Granny Smith Apples and Grapefruit Vinaigrette

This was our dinner last Sunday night. About a week before we bought a two pack of Skirt Steak from Sam's Wholesale Club ( like Costco) and we made fajitas with the first one. I marinated the second in a mixture of rosemary, garlic, red pepper, olive oil and dijon mustard and vacuum sealed it and let it sit for about 5 days. On Sunday I grilled it, sliced it against the grain and plated it with spinach, diced granny smith apples and a grapefruit vinaigrette.

 Download Grapefruit Vinaigrette
 
 
 

Best garlic bread ever.........in my opinion

Okay so looking at this picture you would think it is just a toasted baguette, wrong :)

I have been using this technique for years and am not sure why I have never shared it up until now. This is a healthier version of garlic bread which is usually doused in butter and chunks of garlic.

All you need is some extra virgin olive oil ( a good fat), crusty french bread, one garlic clove halved and salt and pepper.

Drizzle the oil over the bread and broil in the oven till crispy. Immediately take it out and season the bread with salt and pepper to your liking. Take the halved garlic clove and rub the cut side all over the top of the crusty bread. This will release all of the oils and flavor of the garlic onto the bread.  Let cool and enjoy. Sometimes I like to add freshly grated parmesan cheese after rubbing the top with garlic.

Chicken Caesar Sandwich with Bacon, Parmesan and Granny Smith Apple

Tonight's dinner was leftover Caesar salad, grilled chicken, Bacon, sliced Granny Smith Apples, Parmesan shavings and toasted French baguette.

very tasty........

 

Sunday night Lasagna

nothing special, just using up leftover meatballs and pasta sauce for lasagna on a drizzly Sunday evening

Rosemary grilled beef tenderloin with mushroom ravioli & popcorn sunchoke puree

Just playing around in the kitchen with some new flavors/techniques......

New house, new baby, new kitchen..............

Again sorry for the lack of updates recently ( man I really should just post more so I can stop apologizing) but there have been a lot of changes recently in the past couples of months, some good some bad but the biggest and best things are we have bought/moved to a bigger (and better) house BECAUSE we are expecting another child. One of the benefits of the new home is the kitchen, a great place to cook for me considering what I had before. Below are some pictures of what little cooking I have been able to do recently in the new kitchen, there is also a b&w pic of the old kitchen (while making pasta) just so you can really appreciate it. Look for good things to come with this new setup.

BTW the shrimp on the grill are outside, no inside grill :(........yet

Guinness and Happy St Patrick's Day

I had this idea to make a dinner around a few Irish ingredients, okay really just potatoes and Guinness beer. I went to the store and picked up some oxtails (google it) and a 4 pack of Guinness Draught beer in a can.  I planned on making a ravioli filled with Guinness braised oxtails, a Guinness brown butter sauce and diced potatoes cooked in duck fat. Nice concept right? Well after cooking the oxtails in my slow cooker I realized that the weather outside was very "springy" and thus this dish seemed really heavy and more suited for colder weather. I will figure out something else for this Guinness braised beef but in the meantime I need to take care of the rest of the "ingredients" so they do not go to waste ;) My name is O'Boyle isn't it........