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Spaghetti With Chili, Tomato, Basil, Parmigiano Reggiano, Cream & Red Wine

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Saturday night dinner with friends. Good times 🙂
Spaghetti With Chili, Tomato, Basil, Parmigiano Reggiano, Cream & Red Wine
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Saute chicken until done. Remove from pan, reserve. Saute onion, garlic paste and chilies, add red wine and cream. Simmer until lightly thickened. Add freshly cooked al dente spaghetti, tomato, butter, parmesan cheese, kosher salt and pepper. Mix well until all spaghetti are coated with a light , creamy sauce. If too thick, add a bit of the spaghetti cooking water. If too thin, add a bit more cheese.

Bon Appetit ! Life is Good !
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Spaghetti With Chili, Tomato, Basil, Parmigiano Reggiano, Cream & Red Wine

Spoiled Brat ! (Bella)

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Monster Bone-In Rib Eye

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Finally found the proper cast iron grill pan and saute pan I was looking for 🙂
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I don’t believe this need’s any more words. Just look at it and drool…….
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Bon Appetit ! Life is Good !
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Monster Bone-In Rib Eye

: Cast Iron Rocks

: Monster Bone-In Rib Eye

: Monster Bone-In Rib Eye

: Monster Bone-In Rib Eye

: Monster Bone-In Rib Eye

: Monster Bone-In Rib Eye

: Monster Bone-In Rib Eye

: Monster Bone-In Rib Eye

: Monster Bone-In Rib Eye

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Chicken, Bok Choy & Rice In Spicy Coconut Broth

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Usually I prefer rice sticks or mung bean noodles in this kind of soup,
but last night rice seemed to tickle my fancy even more.
Quick and easy to prepare and oh so delicious 🙂

Bon Appetit ! Life is Good !
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Ingredient’s :

Chicken Drumsticks, (use any part of chicken you prefer)
Chicken stock,
Bok choy, blanched
Coconut milk,
Chili flakes,
Rice, cooked
Lemon grass, pounded
Scallions, finely sliced
Ginger, grated
Garlic, paste
Kosher salt,

Method :

Simmer chicken, garlic, ginger, lemongrass, chili and salt in chicken stock until tender but not falling appart. Remove chicken, set aside. Strain broth, add coconut milk and simmer for an additional 5 minutes. add bock choy and rice to heat through. Adjust seasoning if necessary.
To serve, add chicken to serving bowl, ladle sou on top. Sprinkle with and sliced scallions and more chili.
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Chicken, Bok Choy & Rice In Spicy Coconut Broth

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TV Snack – Way Better Than Crappy Chips And Canned Salsa

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Smoked salmon, sour dough bread, garlic butter, sliced onion, capers, basil leaves, guacamole.
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TV Snack-Way Better Than Crappy Chips And Canned Salsa

Smoked salmon, sour dough bread, garlic butter, sliced onion, capers, basil leaves, guacamole.

Bon Appetit ! Life is Good !

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Breakfast Of Champions # 24 – German Style Breakfast / Vesper

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8.30 am. These goodies, a huge glass of iced milk and a movie ( Tampopo ). Good stuff 🙂
Happy fourth of July !

Bon Appetit ! Life is Good !
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Breakfast Of Champions # 24 – German Style Breakfast : Boursin, Gorgonzola, Liver Pate, Asiago, Smoked Salmon, Vine Ripened Tomatoes, Capers, Bread.

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Egg Salad With Shrimp & Caviar

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Last night I dreamed of the time when as kid’s my brother and I were eating egg salad, which at that time (50+ years ago) was a great treat for us because of the shrimp or crayfish and trout or lump fish caviar my mom used to add to the salad. So after I woke up, during the whole morning I kept thinking about those happy times and although I can not re-create the happiness of a mostly carefree child hood, I can most certainly re-create the dish that reminds me of it. So here we go, “Tilly’s egg salad with shrimp and caviar” 🙂
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Egg Salad With Shrimp & Caviar

: Egg Salad With Shrimp & Caviar

: Egg Salad With Shrimp & Caviar

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Ingredient’s :

Eggs, hardboiled, peeled, quartered
Shrimp, cooked, peeled
Caviar, your preferred type
Tomatoes, seeds removed, diced
Mayonnaise, preferably home made
Sriracha,
Lemon juice,
Mustard,
Kosher salt,
Capers,
Scallions, finely sliced
Butter lettuce,
Mustard vinaigrette,
Bread, toasted and buttered bread of your choice

Method :

Mix the eggs, shrimp, mayo, capers, scallions, tomatoes, sriracha and salt. Line a serving bowl with vinaigrette dressed butter lettuce , top with egg/shrimp salad. Top salad with caviar.

Bon Appetit ! Life is Good !

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T Bone Steak With Garlic & Scallion Butter, Potatoes, Brussel Spouts and Roma Tomatoes

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Where on earth can I find the perfect “one portion, high heat, electric indoor grill” ?!
I had bought one a while ago but the darn thing just doesn’t get hot enough to grill a steak the proper way 😦
Although I love my meat sauted, I’d like to switch once in a while to a grilled piece of meat.
A good grill pan would be a great alternative, but even that seems to be hard to find around here.
So, here I was again, sauteing a great piece of meat with my favorite cooking method.
However, just for a change, tonight I would have liked to have changed it to a grilled steak if I had a proper indoor grill.
Hopefully I’ll find something soon. (I have been looking for some time now) >
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” T Bone Steak With Garlic & Scallion Butter, Potatoes, Brussel Spouts and Roma Potatoes ” >
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T Bone Steak With Garlic & Scallion Butter, Potatoes, Brussel Spouts and Roma Potatoes

: T Bone Steak With Garlic & Scallion Butter, Potatoes, Brussel Spouts and Roma Potatoes

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Steak :
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T-bone steak, seasoned with kosher salt & black pepper Peanut oil >
Saute steak until one almost done to your preferred doneness (carry-over heat will do the rest). Remove from heat, let rest. > >
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Discard oil from pan, add butter, saute cooked potatoes until lightly browned. Add blanched brussel sprouts, saute until heated through. Add tomatoes, season with kosher salt and cayenne pepper. Saute one more minute. Remove from heat. >
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Mix soft butter with finely chopped scallions, finely chopped scotch bonnets, and kosher salt.
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Cajun Shrimp & Cheese Grits

Totally had a craving for Cajun shrimp on my way home, so I stopped at the whole food market to get two pounds of these beauties. Expensive but so worth the dough 🙂

Cajun Shrimp & Cheese Grits

: Cajun Shrimp & Cheese Grits

Ingredients Shrimp :

Shrimp, peeled and deveined
Clam juice,
Tomato Paste,
Paprika,
Thyme,
Oregano,
Garlic, paste
Oregano,
Cayenne pepper,
Kosher salt,
Butter,

Method :

Season shrimp with salt and pepper. Saute in butter until halfway done. Remove shrimp, reserve. Saute more garlic in butter, add thyme, oregano, cayenne. Add tomato paste, saute another minute. Add clam juice and simmer until slightly thickened. A the reserved shrimp and heat through. Adjust the heat to your liking, adding as much hot sauce as you can muster.

Ingredients Cheese Grits :

Chicken stock,
Milk, (about 1/3 the amount of the stock)
Corn meal, coarse ground
Sharp cheddar, grated
Kosher salt,
Scotch bonnet sauce, (substitute with tabasco if you can’t stand the heat)
Butter, (splurge)

Method :

Bring the milk and stock to a boil and gradually whisk in the corn meal. lower the heat to a slow simmer and cook for 20 to 25 minutes or until mixture is creamy.
Remove from heat, add the hot sauce, cheese and butter, and whisk to combine.

To serve, top the grits with the shrimp and sprinkle with cilantro.

Bon Appetit ! Life is Good !
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Cantaloupe Melon & Barceló Añejo Rum Smoothie

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I was able to enjoy most of this before the rain hit and I had to move inside.
Now it’s fiesta time 🙂
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Ingredients :

Cantaloupe melon, vanilla yoghurt, ice, milk, barceló añejo rum (the more the merrier 🙂

Cheers !

Cantaloupe Melon & Barceló Añejo Rum Smoothie

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Skirt Steak, Garlic / Herb Butter, Sauted Scallion & Red Beets / Potato Puree

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Last nights dinner finally gave me an opportunity to use the red beet I bought a few days ago. Originally I had bought it to make a salad, but I changed my mind and integrated the beet into my garlicky mashed potato. Good stuff ! 🙂
Here is how it went :
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