1 lb. 80/20 Ground Beef
1 lb 85/15 Ground Beef
1 lb 90/10 Ground Beef (I wasn’t paying attention at the grocery)
1 egg
3 Chipotle Peppers in adobo minced
1/2 onion diced
Fresh Cracked Black Pepper
Kosher Salt
2 tsp Granulated Garlic
Mix it all together. Form nice patties. Grill away! Enjoy!
Friend or Foe
After Matthew’s High Blue Belt test, my brother’s family came over to the house. Kyong was telling of this great popsicle place with great flavors. I finally decided to go with them. The place was called Locopops. It’s located across the street from NC State on Hillsborough Street (Old Darryl’s). She was right! The place is tasty and simple.I enjoyed it so much i had four. I especially enjoyed the pomegranate tangerine twice. I also had the mango chile and pomegranate cranapple. Best 2 dollars spent on a Saturday afternoon.
Grilled BBQ Wings on the Max Weber Grill
Family Pack Chicken Wings
Dry Rub
1 tsp chili powder
1 tsp spanish paprika
1 tsp kosher salt
1 tsp onion powder
1 tsp granulated garlic
1 tsp cayenne pepper
2 tablespoon brown sugar
1 tsp old bay seasoning
1/2 tsp black pepper
Recipes to learn:
Kare Kare
Kaldereta
Pancit
Dinuguan
Sotanghon
the list can keep on going
Pinakbet with coconut milk
Under construction working on veggie quantities
lets start with the ingredients:
2 tablespoons of oil
bowl of diced Pork (small piece of boston butt, fatter cut the better don’t need much)
1 large onion diced
4 cloves Garlic minced
1 tsp Ginger
1 can of coconut milk
2 tablespoons of bagoong (regular filipino shrimp paste)
3 cayenne peppers
salt and pepper to taste
1 cup of water
Veggies:
10-12 pieces Kalabasa (squash) cut up (
handful of String Beans
12 pieces frozen Okra
2 Egg Plant (long oriental) cut into 1 inch circles
2 large tomato quartered
1 Ampalaya seeded and sliced (bitter melon)
-Add oil in large pot and sautee garlic, pork, onions until soft
-Add coconut milk and boil for 5 minutes
-Add cayenne peppers
-Add tomatoes, ginger, 2 tablespoons of shrimp paste boil for 5 minutes
-Add string beans, stir, boil for 5 minutes
-Add squash, stir boil
-Add bittermelon, stir bring to boil
-Add eggplant, stir, bring to boil
-Add frozen okra, stir, bring to boil
-Add 1 cup water, bring to boil
-Reduce heat, cover, and simmer
-Salt and pepper to taste
Grilled Cheese (Wheat and American)
*2 slices of bread (white bread, wheat break, texas toast, ciabatta, whatever you like)
*slice or two of your favorite cheese (american, provolone, cheddar)
*3 slices of butter (slices not sticks)
*hot pan, skillet, flat top, sandwich press, panini press (the griddler, i owe hoa one)
*spatula for pressing and flipping
-Place cheese and a slice of butter in between bread, butter one side of the outside of sandwich.
-Heat pan on medium-high, melt one slice of butter in pan.
-Place unbuttered side down on buttered pan and toast in pan
-When toasted to the desired doneness flip sandwich and toast the other buttered side.
NOTE: some people like a pressed flat grilled cheese others enjoy the simple toasted sandwich. so you can just toast and melt cheese or press sandwich flat while toasting and melting.
it’s up to you. enjoy.
jazzed up grilled cheese, tomatoes, onions, etc. although that’s crossing into panini territory…
Woke up at 7:30am and decided to go to Sam’s Club. Called up my bro Dave and off we went for early warehouse food shopping. We decided to get people together from an impromptu 4th of July cookout. We made a pasta salad (dave made it), dry rub grilled chicken wings, grilled salmon, more bubba burgers (still have so many left from my birthday), hot dogs, Allan made a hummus tray. Dan, Dave B. and family, Dave’s family, Allan, Kate, Cindy came over for good food. Kyong and the kids followed for swimming and watermelon. We learned to better control the charcoal grill. We’ve named the grill the Max Weber (Vay-bur) famed sociologist. Cookouts are a summer ritual of community. A social tool bringing family and friends closer. Thanks to all that hung out today. We went to Auntie Baby’s house this evening for dinner in honor of her late mother. Nice to see and be with family.
We had a birthday party today for Simon. Thanks to the uncles, aunts, cousins, and friends who came to celebrate his first birthday. My brother Dave (Simon’s Dad) and I grilled a bunch of stuff for the party. Cindy was a great help in the party food preps. We grilled bbq chicken wings, grilled buffalo style wings, marinated country style pork ribs, seasoned chicken breasts, bubba burgers, hot dogs, marinated leg quarters, we had cheese ravioli, pancit from auntie tessie, macaroni and cheese, salad, fruit, filipino desserts from uncle eddie, cookies from ate glennie, great dessert from cousin jennifer she made a strawberry short cake dessert–it didn’t last long, we also had corn, baked tilapia, potato salad, shrimp chips from auntie sony and birthday cake. sorry no pics. too busy grilling outside with dave.
kids swam. i swam. threw baseball with stephen, john, rich. threw frisbee with dave b., stephen, john, jase, mark, eric, and flora. played wiffle ball with flora, eric, jase, john, mark, and stephen.
good day. i am too sensitive about people not making it to simon’s first birthday. i need to learn some people just don’t care.
I have adopted a Kaffir Lime Tree. It’s a 3 year old. The Kaffir Lime Tree is a main ingredient in Thai cooking.
