Time for the Secret Recipe Club again! This month, I was assigned the blog The Weekend Gourmet. I feel so lucky to have been assigned another great blog, Wendy has plenty of great recipes on her blog with great directions and pictures. Trying to stick to my theme of everything being primarily cooked on the [...]
Fish and Seafood
These tacos are absolutely delicious! Over the weekend we actually hit about 80 degrees and was quite muggy. This was the perfect recipe as it was light, fresh, and healthy. The salsa in this recipe contains a bit more of a kick then I anticipated, but not overwhelming. It uses 2 Serrano Peppers and the [...]
Wood planks are a great way to bring flavor to grilling for any type of meat or seafood. Seafood is where I generally would use them, as it adds just a bit of smokiness that really complements seafood well. Plank grilling has been picking up in popularity over the past few years, but it has [...]
Shrimp on the grill, every time I grill it up, I wonder why I don’t do this more often. The best part of shrimp, it is super easy to enhance the flavor with marinades and rubs. One thing to remember is that when you are creating a marinade or rub for shrimp it is important [...]
Lobster has been one of those recipes I have wanted to grill for a long time now, and I finally did it. I would have liked to have used live lobster, but it was not available in the area, so I used a couple lobster tails. Lobster Ingredients: 2 lobster tails Olive oil Salt and [...]
The first step is to make marinade for the shrimp. To do this mix together the beer, olive oil, chives, Sriracha sauce, salt, and garlic in a bowl and mix well. Place the shrimp in the bowl and let marinate for at least 1 hour, and preferably 2 hours. As time gets closer, prepare the [...]
This simple, but great recipe came from a good friend of my wife. Ingredients: 8 oz softened cream cheese 1/2 bunch chopped green onions (more or less to taste) 1 can crabmeat Mix all the ingredients together and enjoy. For an added punch add in some granulated garlic or garlic powder.
Ingredients: 2 Bottles Flattened Wheat Beer (used Blue Moon’s Spring Ale) 1/3 C Honey 1 t Jamaican Allspice 2 Cloves Garlic (minced) 1 t Kosher Salt 2 T Brown Sugar Instructions: Mix ingredients together in a saucepan Bring to a boil and then simmer uncovered and reduce for 15 minutes Let cool to room temperature [...]
