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Young & HungryIf you can't take the heat, get outta the kitchen! |
| 8 February |
Ok boys, you decided that a 5 pound hunk of pork, while right up your alley, is not quite delicate enough for your sweet little buttercup. Here’s something that is. This salmon will sweep your sweetheart off her feet, just like it did me years ago when it became one of my all time favorites! Don’t get jealous, food is but a fleeting fling; this one particularly quick. It’s not Love, Actually, but once that last bite is swallowed down she’ll be yours again. Forever perhaps. Just make sure you really love her or at least print the recipe on the back of her Valentine.
| 2 November |
I imagine it’s not too common for someone to be inspired to plan an entire meal around something like radicchio, but thanks to Michael Chiarello that’s exactly what I did. This episode of his show on grilling was nothing out of the ordinary, but the idea of taking a boring leaf vegetable and putting it through marinade, direct heat, and a good stuffing is just plain inspirational. For those that don’t know, radicchio is that bitter red “green” aka chicory that you usually pick out of your salad! This recipe, however, transforms it into a charred veggie quesadilla-esque masterpiece. The cheese melts gluing the leaves of the lettuce together into a sandwich of sorts while the marinade helps hide the bitterness that is also reduced through a nice long ice bath. The juicy radicchio serves as the perfect counterpart to the oh too usual dry and overcooked pork, unless you too like risking salmonella in avoidance.
As far as your starch for the meal is concerned, couscous went well and put to good use the leftover marinade from the radicchio. Michael seems to take a heavy hand to the marinade; I found that half was more than sufficient. If couscous isn’t your thing, I might do something simple like mashed or baked potatoes especially now that summer has come and gone and the colorful heirloom tomatoes have disappeared from the stores and markets.
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