Vegetables
Thu Aug 18, 2011
Mexican-Style Grilled Corn
Here it is, a post 4 years in the making! Well, not really, but I first put together a recipe for the most excellent Mexican-style grilled corn back in 2008, but didn't quite have the photos I wanted to use for a post, so it sat patiently in my queue. It wasn't until a few weeks ago that I finally took some glamour shots I was happy enough with to finally bring this corn to the blog, but that wait was not in vein, as I've been slowly altering my recipe to make it simpler, yet better. So at long last, I'm finally getting to share my all-time favorite preparation of grilled corn, and I'm confident this is about as good as it gets.
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Tue Jun 7, 2011
Asparagus Wrapped In Prosciutto With Lemon
Oh man, what's wrong with me? Looking through my recent posts, I'm weighing almost equal veggies to meat, shame on me. I guess it's a true sign of the season though—while my carnivorous habits have not ebbed, I also relish in the early waves of summer greens that are available both inexpensively and in top quality. Asparagus is a top favorite in this category, and while that has found me dedicating yet another post to a vegetable, this time I made sure it also contained some meat!
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Tue May 24, 2011
Corn With Chili Lime Butter
For die-hard Meatwavers, you may have noticed that I've gone a full year with regular posts here, which is triumph after the first three years of throwing up a recipe here and there. In keeping the content up, I've let aspirations of site development fall to the wayside—new design, easy printing, and recipe optimization all seem a long way off. In the fall, with well over 100 posts up, I did make one quiet change though, a search feature that was long overdue. In a constant struggle on trying to decide if I want to pay to remove the ads on it (I hate ads), I keep an eye on what my meaty minions are searching every crevice of this site for. One thing that keeps popping up that has been a big ommision is corn.
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Tue Apr 26, 2011
Artichokes with Mint and Chilies
I'm at the point now where I'm about 50/50 split between writing my own recipes and cooking out of books and blogs. Although I have a good degree of confidence in assembling a winning flavor combo, digging into my library is often still as eye opening of an experience as when I was first learning how to cook. Case in point, these artichokes taken from Maria Batali's Italian Grill; not only does this recipe bring together ingredients I wouldn't have considered with artichokes—mint and wine—it also gives them a boil before the grill, while I would normally jump straight to the fire. The results of all this were some the best artichokes I've ever had.
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Tue Apr 12, 2011
German Potato Salad
Don't you hate it when something gets in between you and your grill? I had that problem this past weekend weekend when my neighbor was having the mortar cut out between the bricks of his house. The work spewed a fine dust across the vast expanse of my deck, and even a quick stint out there left me feeling like I had returned from a long trek across the Sahara (they're extreme mask protection and my complete lack there-of left me a little unnerved). I had a few racks of ribs going down the stairs in the backyard, and my plan was to grill up a side worthy of the new recipes I was developing, but I found that impossible in the hostile environment created just outside my back door. So I took to the kitchen, which wasn't all bad, because out of it came a German potato salad!
