http://www.culinarydisaster.com/wordpress This blog contains detailed recipes and picture walkthroughs of me cooking what I love to cook. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:45:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mike over at Mike's Table had to go ahead and throw down the gauntlet again and this time his poison was frozen deserts.  For those who don't follow Mike's Blog he is pretty much the ice cream guru in my book and is always doing something cool and exciting with his ... http://www.culinarydisaster.com/wordpress/05/lavender-sorbet/ Quinoa is one of those ingredients I seem to run into at the grocery store and always in odd weird places so I have taken that to be a sign that well I need to use it.  Luckily Kevin over at Closet Cooking has done a couple dishes with quinoa ... http://www.culinarydisaster.com/wordpress/30/quinoa-salad/ Do not check the URL yes you are still at the same artery clogging, braise filled, pork hugging, vegetarian bashing blog.  However, now that the garden is starting to spit out some decent produce time to start incorporating it into dishes.  The joy of a salad is it can be whatever in ... http://www.culinarydisaster.com/wordpress/25/parmesan-crusted-chicken-with-gasp-salad/ This is my first attempt at Taste and Create (http://forfood.rezimo.com/) which for those who don't know each month you are given another blog and choose something from the blog and create it.  I have to say this is an amazing and fun concept and definitely something I am looking forward to ... http://www.culinarydisaster.com/wordpress/23/chicken-with-roasted-spices/ Another one of those I have lemongrass, ginger, garlic (duh), and a bunch of other random shit so hmmm...ohhh....marinated steak sounds awesome.  I wanted to use flank steak but since I can't read I grabbed flat iron out of the freezer on accident.  No harm no foul since both cuts love ... http://www.culinarydisaster.com/wordpress/18/spicy-asiany-beef/ Tamarind is another one of those culinary adventures I have not experimented with but want to learn.  It really adds a great sour flavor to any dish and the first thing I think of when I think of sour is hot and sour soup.  So in order to balance that ... http://www.culinarydisaster.com/wordpress/16/spicy-tamarind-marinade/ This dish is kind of my big f you to the crappy producers out there who have to scare us with salmonella in tomatoes.  Weird to go into a grocery store and see where tomatoes use to be just an empty area with a sign informing us because we want ... http://www.culinarydisaster.com/wordpress/12/tomato-fennel-chicken/ Char siu is Chinese barbecued pork and probably the best way to describe this dish.  Traditionally it is strips of pork that are marinated in a mixture of honey, soy sauce, hoisin sauce, 5 spice powder, and sugar.  I modified it a little bit (hello crushed red pepper and garlic) and ... http://www.culinarydisaster.com/wordpress/09/variation-of-char-siu-chinese-barbecued-pork/ I have been a grilling fool the last couple of weeks.  Normally I am a huge fan of the gas grill during the week but lately my trusty Weber charcoal has been getting a workout. After doing the herb butter smoked chicken my next goal was to do a beer butt ... http://www.culinarydisaster.com/wordpress/06/guinness-beer-butt-chicken/ Last week my boy Blaine over at Seven Son's Meat (shameless plug) called me and informed me my order of 15 chickens were ready for pick up.  After doing a happy dance I scheduled a time to run out to the farm to pick them up.  I wanted to get some ... http://www.culinarydisaster.com/wordpress/04/smoked-whole-chicken-with-herb-butter/