Fun in the Kitchen
This grilled teriyaki steak recipe is a fan favorite! It is the perfect recipe if you want something quick, easy and is a crowd pleaser! The homemade teriyaki sauce that is used for the marinade soaks nicely into the steak! The steak comes off the grill seared and juicy. Seriously, perfection on the grill is about to happen and you will be happy to tried it!
…
So last week, we wrote about making the finger licking good Cherry Bourbon BBQ Sauce and this week we want to show you how to use it to make Cherry Chicken on the grill. If you didn’t already read it or made this super simple recipe, jump over there and make it fast before the cherries of the season run out. Just kidding! If it isn’t cherry season, grab some frozen ones and they will work out perfectly.
…
The middle of the summer hits and I am on the lookout for cherries!! Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, they were plentiful and we used to sit on the porch with bowls of the fresh fruit! I am so excited this year as the price of cherries went down to $2.99/lb. How sad is that? I remember growing up when we picked them for FREE! Since the price was reasonable this year, we made our Cherry Bourbon BBQ Sauce and are excited to share it with you!!
…
Learning how to grill the juiciest chicken breast doesn’t isn’t hard. You just have to know the tricks of the trade and apply them! They can be one of the hardest pieces of meat to consistently cook successfully but we are here to help you change that right now!
…
Dizzy Pig IPA Dry Rub Smoked Chicken Wings are such a hit in our house! They combine several of the things we love in one little wing – Hot Smoking on the Grill, DizzyPig Seasonings and a brand new recipe that we will go into our grilling rotation! What could be better than that???
…
Do you ever have a vegetable dish that you love but don’t cook it as often as you want? Enter grilled sweet potatoes for us! We love them! Seriously, we don’t even have to convince ourselves that we love them, we just do. We have been cooking zucchini and yellow squash a lot lately, and kept forgetting how much we missed the sweet potato!
…
Apricot Chicken Wings came about on accident. Quite a few years ago, we made a recipe that used apricot jam on shrimp and we loved it! It was a strange favorite of Jason’s! I couldn’t get over how much we enjoyed an apricot jam mixture on shrimp. I thought we’d try an apricot jam based recipe on chicken wings, and I am glad I did!
…
Have you ever noticed that certain foods evoke a certain feeling? Think about it! Pizza! Ribs! Potato Salad! Steak! SMOKED CHICKEN WINGS! Maybe they are memories or maybe they are simply feelings you had as a kid when you ate the food at a picnic. Chicken Wings slathered in a juicy BBQ sauce makes me feel like football games, tailgate parties, BBQ out on the deck, sunshine, sprinklers, and freshly mowed grass. You get the point. It makes you wonder how chicken wings got known as being the party food!
…
We have a trip to Thailand planned for this summer. Besides being super-excited about visiting this part of the world, we want to see how the Thai version of sriracha differs from what we commonly see in American Thai restaurants. We usually aren’t drawn to spicy foods, but thought we’d try our hand at cooking our own Grilled Honey Sriracha Chicken Recipe.
…
It’s July here and I’m sad to say that our rosemary is not happy! We planted one rosemary plant in an organic planting bed and one in a large pot on our deck. Maybe it is the excessive rain we have had this year, but they really haven’t grown much at all! Sadly, I had to buy more fresh rosemary than I care to this year – which is what I had to do for this delicious dish on Marinated Grilled Rosemary Chicken Recipe.
…
Jason’s dad makes the most incredible ribs! I remember going to his house when we were dating and his dad made these Plum Jam Ribs, and I just couldn’t get enough of them. I wanted to lick my fingers, but figured that might make the best impression with them! Ok, that sounds really wacky but I assure you, it is 100% true!
…
Let’s talk cedar planks!! Do you use them? When? How? We love them!!! We grew up in the Pacific Northwest, so salmon and cedar planks always remind us of home! I think when I eat cedar plank meals, I feel like part of me is still in Washington state. That is certainly the case for Rosemary Thyme Salmon.
…
One of my favorite recipes is our Rosemary Garlic Chicken recipe on a cast iron skillet that I hope you have already tried and loved as much as we do! If you haven’t made it, jump over there and make it quick! This will always go down as one of the best recipes we have ever made. Spence said it tastes like a high end restaurant.
…
Grilled Parmesan Sweet Potatoes is a surprisingly huge hit in our family, but I wish it looked as good as it tasted. This is one of those recipes that is “to die for delicious” but just isn’t as pretty as it should be. But don’t let that stop you from making it.
…
Who doesn’t love a mouthwatering homemade barbecue sauce, especially when it is a sweet and spicy BBQ sauce dripping over our grilled chicken wings. With a great taste and a 30 minute marinade, this recipe goes down as the bomb for us!
…
My Grilled Honey Orange Chicken recipe is one of those magical 30 minute marinade meals that only uses 3 ingredients! I love recipes with just a few ingredients. Couple that with the 30 minutes to prep and this recipe is my jam!!! Aren’t those just the best?
…
Yum, halibut!!! Halibut is one of those foods that we just adore and brings out seriously happy memories. Do you have one that creates a reaction like that for you? One of my favorite recipes for this delicious white fish is Grilled Lemon Rosemary Halibut on a Cedar Plank.
Back in the late 1990’s, Jason was still active duty Coast Guard and traveled a lot. He had a “hardship trip” to Alaska – please note my sarcasm! His dad decided to meet him up there and they went out on a fishing charter boat to catch halibut! Have you ever seen a halibut Fresh out of the ocean? That is one ugly fish!!!
They limited out pretty quickly and each of them pulled in fish over 100lbs. He said it was like hauling up a barn door. The had a fish processor meet them at the dock, and the freshly caught halibut was packaged up and sent back home.
I received an urgent call from Jason saying that I should to go to Sears and buy a deep freezer as he was shipping halibut back and we needed somewhere to store it. I still look at that freezer and think of packs and packs of halibut that arrived via FedEx!!
He also warned me not to look at the credit card statement that month! Yikes! But it was worth every penny.
When I think back about that story, I question why we didn’t get the freezer before he left? We knew he was going fishing but we didn’t prepare for it. It is one of my favorite memories!
That was hands-down the best halibut we have ever ate! There was so much of it that we struggled eating all of it before we transferred! Towards the end, we were eating halibut almost every day!
The marinade is extremely simple and uses ingredients that are most likely already in your kitchen. Add the marinade ingredients to a ziplock bag and add the small halibut steaks.
Plan ahead, as you’ll want the halibut to be cut small enough to fit on the cedar plank.
Set the grill for direct heat at 350 degrees. You really don’t want the grill to get too hot as you may actually burn the cedar plank. A bit of char on it is ok, but you don’t want it to catch fire. ***Don’t ask me how I know this.***
Place the halibut on the soaked cedar plank and add the freshly sliced lemon and Rosemary sprig on top.
Grill the halibut for approximately 20 minutes or until it is fully cooked.
It is best to have the internal temperature of the halibut reach 145 degrees. The meat will turn a nice opaque white color and will flake apart easily.
We hit our local grocery store this weekend to have some coffee and pastries while Spencer was teaching sailing. I can’t wait until he gets his driver’s license! On the way out, we saw some fresh artichokes that were pretty inexpensive and picked up a few to take home to try out on grill.
…
We have lovely neighbors! They are the ones that you can call and ask “hey, can you let my dog out in an hour?” They are the sweetest ever and are always there if you need them.
…
We probably mentioned a million plus times how much we love Mexican food! Seriously, I think could eat Mexican most days and never get tired of it! Check out these Grilled Fish Street Tacos for another to-die-for recipe!
…
I may have hinted a couple times that I’m a meal planner. A real meal prep person. This Grilled Chicken Stuffed Avocados recipe is a fantastic meal that fits into my meal prep addiction!
…
This past weekend we posted about the Grilled Chicken Breasts that we made for meal prep. Today, we’ll be making Grilled Chicken Dorito Taco Salad with them.
…
Welp, we finally did it! This is the year that we finally broke down and bought tickets to an Egg Fest! Has anyone else gone and had a blast? We have dreamt of going for years. It either didn’t work out weekend-wise running a kid to all of his activities, or the costs were just a bit more than we liked. It was never in the cards until this year. We bought tickets and we went! What an awesome event!
…
Let me just say that we are a potato loving family! Throw on some cheese and it just gets better, right? But let’s stop and think how can we take steakhouse potatoes over the top! Why are theirs so scrumptious? Why do I put them in my mouth and close my eyes as if I just reached heaven? Just admit it! You know what I’m talking about. We have all done it!
…
